The NLC adheres to "People-oriented" principle, pays attention to talent training, introduction and employment, constructs staff training system of "Classification training, hierarchical management", and provides wide space for various kinds of talents to exploit their talent. There are more than 1300 enrolled employees in the NLC. Among them, bachelor degree or above account for more than 95% and senior professionals account for more than 46%. A talent team with reasonable number, optimized structure, high quality, good professional ethics and service ability has been formed.

The NLC is a comprehensive research library, which attaches great importance to scientific research work. It assumes the research of national and ministry-level projects, such as National Key Technology R&D Program, National Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project, Science and Technology Innovation Project of the Ministry of Culture, and so on; it greatly subsidizes scientific research projects in the library, and encourages the staff to take part in scientific research work. The NLC has formed distinct advantages and features in the fields of librarianship development and research, literature resources construction and preservation, literature and philology study, library service and user research, digital library technology and application, and so on. The NLC is also the first library possessing of postdoctoral research station in China.