The library of Nanjing university of Chinese medicine has a large collection covering 500,000 Chinese foreign books and periodicals bound volumes and ancient books, with which 100,000 TCM books and 2754 periodicals of TCM and modern medicine and biology, 1.100 foreign language medical current periodicals. The library also collects TCM books up to 95% and TCM periodicals up to 100% that published after new china foundation. Besides , there are also 50,000 periodicals bound volumes, 40,000 books published in the republic of china and TCM ancient books, 3000 precious books and rare books. The library is well equipped with medical information retrieval tools and 20 years experience of compound retrieval. The library invests about 2000000 to 2500000 yuan for book purchase Auto management has been widely applied into edition, circulation, retrieval, office work. The library links with campus network, and possess of TCM and related data, including TCM literature data, Chinese biological medical disc, databases of Chinese biomedical journals, china science and technology achievement database, medline. The library was approved to be one of the first batch of china tcn literature retrieval centers. in 1997, The library was awarded as the national TCM technological message advanced unit, and in 1999, was awarded bulletin praise in the evaluation of state traditional Chinese medicine administration for 515 novelty searches.