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As of December 31, 2023, the Library Branch has been home to 32,147 volumes of books, of which 24,146 volumes are books donated by Saudi Arabia. The collection of books is mainly distributed in the reading room on the ground floor and the compact stacks at the basement level one. The reading room has different areas for reference books, course reserves, and the books in display, providing rich book resources such as references, new collections, special collections of the Library Branch, Chinese and English books, and Arabic books ranging from linguistics, literature, art, history to geography. Arabic books of other categories mainly stay on the compact stacks at the basement level one.  



  • 32,147 Print resources in total
  • 27,685 Arabic Books
  • 652 Chinese books
  • 3,810 Other books
  • * Periodicals


In order to strengthen the electronic resources service for the teaching and research of the Arabic Language Department as well as the country/region studies of Peking University, the Library Branch has purchased 23 academic electronic resource databases and 46 sub databases, including 22,065 e-books and 3,310 electronic periodicals.