The Peking University Library is the oldest university library in China. It has a total floor space of 51,000 square meters and houses more than 5.3 million books, the largest collection within China's university libraries.

The Peking University is home to many rare books and rubbings. There are over 1.5 million volumes of antique books, 170,000 volumes of rare books, and several thousand of precious books or extremely rare editions.

The library also has 24,000 titles or 56,000 pieces of rubbings. In fact, the Peking University library has one of the largest collections of stone rubbings in the country. Possessing high relic and artistic value, these rare books and rubbings are also of great academic value for the preservation of and research on traditional culture.

The Peking University library also has an impressive digital library system. This system provides the library's online catalog, international pool search, subject updating and paper search and citation.

Additionally, a new wing, called Disc and Network Search Section, has been added to the Library. This area offers over a hundred workstations and large capacity CD-Roms, including a collection of over 270 academic discs and various foreign network databases and e-journals.