After more than 90 years of accumulation, by the end of 20 12, Xiamen University Library had 4.436 million paper books and more than 0/00 electronic databases, equivalent to about 3190,000 books, with a total collection of 7.626 million books, ranking among the best in all kinds of libraries in China. Literature collection involves various disciplines, especially philosophy, management, politics, law, economics, linguistics, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, oceanography, mechanical and electronic engineering, computer science and other disciplines, and has distinct advantages in the information construction of Southeast Asian studies and Taiwan studies. The museum also has a large number of ancient books, CDs, audio tapes, microfilm and other resources, and is a national key ancient book protection unit.
The existing building area of the library is135,000 square meters, with 1 1 0,000 reading seats. In addition to a main library with an area of 26,000 square meters, the headquarters also has three professional branches, such as Law, Economic Management and East (Zeng Cuo An Village Village) Student Apartment, with 3,000 reading seats. Zhangzhou Campus Library covers an area of more than 30,000 square meters and has 4,000 reading seats. Xiang 'an Campus Library covers an area of 73,000 square meters and has 4,000 reading seats. Each branch library realizes high-speed network connection with the headquarters, and the book information resources are shared with the headquarters; At the same time, the unified allocation of book resources in the whole school has been realized, which is open to all teachers and students.