The library's total collection of documents, China thread-bound books and minority books are among the best in Beijing university libraries.
He has successively obtained a large number of precious books from the Institute, the Palace Museum, the Chinese Buddhist Association, the Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Management Association, Zhang, Pan Guangdan, Wu Wenzao, Lin, Hong, Wu Fengpei, Zhang Wei, Song Shuhua and other units and individuals.
Together with the book investment of the school for more than 50 years, the library now has more than 6.5438+0.98 million books, including 6.5438+0.5 million paper books (the total number of paper books in the school is 6.5438+0.65 million, including 6.5438+0.5 million paper books in departments) and 480,000 e-books. There are more than 220,000 ancient books in thread binding and more than 30,000 old paperbacks.
Introduction to book collection:
Ancient books include 1434 rare books of ancient books in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are more than 3,000 kinds of local chronicles in the museum, accounting for about 1/3 of the total local chronicles in China.
Most of them are local chronicles of frontier minority areas, covering politics, history, geography, folk customs, meteorology, water conservancy, products and so on. Among them, there are few local chronicles such as "Xinjiang Fourth Road (Manuscript)".
Among the ancient books, there are many precious ancient books such as chronicles, genealogies and biographies in Chinese, and there are more than 20 kinds of woodcut, woodcut, epigraphy and picture books in Qing Dynasty. There are many manuscripts, unique versions and priceless.
For example, the Ming Wanli edition of A Record of the Two Dynasties and the Qing Qianlong Wuyingtang edition of The Strategy of Pacifying Junggar are rare in China.
The descendants of Yingqi Rao, Minister of Qing Dynasty in Xinjiang, donated the manuscript of Yingqi Rao's Plays to the library, which is an important historical material unique to the library.