Founded in 1956, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the first four Chinese medicine colleges after the founding of of New China. Started with the university library from two small reading room has gradually developed as the modern library, literature a total by the start-up of 40,000 copies of growth to the current more than 1 million copies, service content from simple borrowing up to the full-service, using modern network technology has been rated as "national key protection unit of ancient books" and "Shanghai ancient books protection unit", At present, the total collection of literature is more than one million volumes, and there are two special libraries for ancient books. The collection ranks among the top of TCM colleges in China in terms of varieties, volumes and quality.
