These rubbings reflect many facets of ancient life and are very important for the study of ancient characters, calligraphy, and paintings. They also can be used to supplement history books. This collection now ranks first of all China's academic libraries. Peking University Library has paid great attention to the development of a modern digital library. When the new library opened, much modern equipment was installed to provide improved modern services.
Users can search online business databases and self-building databases through a gateway.
It will make great contributions to higher education's resource-sharing and digital library development. The CD-ROM and online searching area located on the first floor is a window of Peking University Library's modernization. It contains more than one hundred workstations with tower model cd drivers and jukebox, and more than 100 kinds of academic CD-ROMs. The library also provides MARC, CD-ROM and international online database searching, problem searching, thesis and retrieval. The services offered by the library have greatly improved teaching and research in Peking University.