Overview of Physical Collections (As of December 2025) |
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Categories |
Languages |
Subdivisions |
Volumes/Items |
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Monographs |
Chinese |
General Books (including Minguo paper-bound books) |
13577077 volumes |
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General Ancient Books (including Minguo thread-bound books) |
1684837 volumes |
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Books Published in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Overseas |
460524 volumes |
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Subtotal |
15722438 volumes |
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Foreign Languages |
Western Languages Books (English, French, German, and others) |
2593378 volumes |
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Russian Books (including Slavic languages) |
715949 volumes |
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Books in Japanese and other Oriental Languages |
1339018 volumes |
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Subtotal |
4648435 volumes |
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Subtotal for Monographs |
20370783 volumes |
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Periodicals |
Chinese |
Chinese Periodicals |
9336364 volumes |
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Foreign Languages |
Periodicals in Foreign Languages |
7320333 volumes |
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Subtotal for Periodicals |
16656697 volumes |
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Newspapers |
Chinese |
Chinese Newspapers |
241965 bound volumes |
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Foreign Languages |
Newspapers in Foreign Languages |
112196 bound volumes |
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Subtotal for Newspapers |
354161 bound volumes |
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Special Collections |
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Rare Books (including Ancient Rare Books, New Rare Books, Rare Books in Foreign Languages) |
402349 volumes or items |
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Maps & Atlases in Chinese and Foreign Languages |
205429 volumes or items |
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Static Pictures (Photographs, New Year Pictures, Engineering Drawings, and others) |
201649 items |
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Documents on Epigraphs & Rubbings |
341181 items |
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Manuscripts & Letters |
127476 items |
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Documents in Languages of Ethnic Minorities |
290342 volumes or items |
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Dunhuang & Turpan Documents |
33607 items |
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Genealogies & Chronicles |
153302 volumes or items |
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Other Special Collections (including Deluxe Editions) |
13136 volumes or items |
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Dissertations and other Chinese Materials |
3851981 volumes or items |
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Oracle Bones |
35651 volumes or items |
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International Organizations and Government Publications |
641713 volumes or items |
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Subtotal for Special Collections |
6297816 volumes or items |
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Microforms |
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Microfilms & Microfiches |
1783818 reels or fiches |
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Audio-visual Materials |
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Sound Recordings, Video Recordings, CD, Microgroove Records, MP3, LD, VCD, VHD, DVD |
526631 disks or cassettes |
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Electronic Publications |
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CD-ROM and others |
155420 items |
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Total (as of December 2025) |
46145326 volumes or items |
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Overview of Main Digital Resources (As of December 2025) |
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Categories |
Subdivisions |
Amount |
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Books |
E-Books (titles) |
2508936 |
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Periodicals |
E-Periodicals (titles) |
103830 |
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Newspapers |
E-Newspapers (titles) |
5109 |
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Special Collections |
Digital Chronicles (titles) |
6946 |
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Stone Rubbings (titles) |
28246 |
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Oracle Bones (titles) |
6575 |
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Oracle Bones Rubbings (titles) |
14776 |
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Old Photos (titles) |
7264 |
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Rare Books (titles) |
27503 |
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Dunhuang Documents (volumes) |
12768 |
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Manuscripts & Letters (titles) |
1430 |
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Genealogies (titles) |
5741 |
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Doctoral Dissertations & Masters' Theses (papers) |
13673951 |
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Conference Papers (papers) |
7321773 |
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Others (titles) |
116372 |
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Subtotal for Special Collections |
21223345 |
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Audio-visual Resources |
Video Resources (pieces) |
3132980 |
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Audio Resources (hours) |
198632 |
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Amount of Digital Resources (TB) |
2918.73 |
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Number of Out-sourced Databases |
248 |
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Note:
1 Audio resources include songs, music, language resources, and so on, which are measured in audio clips, and the unit is piece.
2 Video resources include lectures, reports, courses, documentaries, movie and television plays, oral history resources, and so on, which are measured in video length, and the unit is hour.
3 "Others" in "Special Collections" includes New Year Pictures, Tangut Materials, Maps & Atlases, Rare Books returning from abroad, and so on.
