There are more than 300 kinds of newspapers in Hebei Library. The collection focuses on national newspapers, party newspapers of provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, local newspapers published in Hebei Province, core newspapers of various disciplines and all kinds of high-quality excellent newspapers. Full-text electronic periodical database is an integral part of the construction of cultural information resources in China, which has been strongly supported by periodical editorial departments who are enthusiastic about public welfare cultural undertakings. The China Cultural Information Resources Construction Management Center of the Ministry of Culture entrusts the periodicals collected for free to Hebei Cultural Information Sharing Center for production, and provides them to the public free of charge through network systems.
Full-text electronic periodical library is the data classified, produced, recorded and submitted by the library center according to China Library Classification and relevant national recording standards. More than 70 periodicals and nearly 8,000 pieces of data were processed and input. The reading room of ancient books and local documents mainly collects ancient books and local documents in the province. There are nearly 70,000 kinds of ancient books and 500 kinds of ancient books, including Integration of Ancient and Modern Books, Photocopying of Sikuquanshu, Catalogue of Sikuquanshu, Continuation of Sikuquanshu, etc., as well as Wanli Edition of Ming Dynasty, Zuoyinzhai Chess Manual and Qing Dynasty.
There are more than 3,000 kinds of local documents in Hebei Province, and a large number of local documents are being collected every year, the number is about 1000, which can provide information basis for local decision-making organs, basic materials for local historical records and information services for local economic construction, and will gradually develop into "Zhao Yan Research Document Center".