Founded in 1998, Sias Library supports and empowers scholarship and research innovation. It provides students and faculty with access to the paper, audio, and visual materials, and online resources. There are more than 1 million volumes in total, which contains 260,000 Chinese books, 430,000 foreign-languages books, 900 Chinese periodicals, 300 foreign-languages periodicals, 160 papers, 3270 audio and video files, 380,000 electronic books and 10 databases. Reading rooms, newspaper and periodical sections, electronic reading rooms, self-study rooms, audio-visual areas, wireless Internet zones and coffee areas are available for study and computing.