With a total area of over 40,000 square meters, the library has 65,430 reading rooms, including Chinese social science books, Chinese natural science books, Chinese periodicals reading rooms, Chinese newspapers reading rooms, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao reading rooms, retrieval reference books reading rooms, information reading rooms, Guangdong literature reading rooms, Sun Yat-sen literature reading rooms, rare books reading rooms, Chinese books lending rooms, foreign books lending rooms, library science reading rooms, independent books reading rooms and special research rooms.

In addition, there are multifunctional lecture halls, audio-visual reading rooms, microfilm reading rooms and computer retrieval rooms. * * * There are 2,000 general reading seats and 800 lecture halls and audio-visual rooms. Except for local literature reading rooms and rare books reading rooms, other 10 common reading rooms and borrowing stacks are open-shelf lending, with a total collection of nearly1000000 copies.

The library pays attention to the comprehensive development and utilization of literature resources, carries out targeted services and tracking services, and publishes Guangdong Information and other materials for production and scientific research units. After the completion of the new museum, the museum pays attention to giving full play to the advantages of the building and actively holds various exhibitions, academic reports and professional lectures. The library also pays attention to serving disabled readers, and often cooperates with relevant units to hold activities suitable for deaf-mute and blind readers.

The library has business offices, research guidance departments, editorial departments, reading departments, newspapers and periodicals departments, foreign languages departments, lending departments, readers' work departments, reference information departments, technical departments, training departments, ancient books departments and local documents departments. The office of Guangdong Central Library Committee and the secretariat of Guangdong Library Society are also affiliated to the library.