The Tibet Autonomous Region Library,set up at a cost of nearly 100 million yuan,was opened in June 1996. It has 590,000 books,including more than 100,000 well-collated and well-preserved Tibetan ancient books.

• 投资近亿元的西藏自治区图书馆已于1996年6月正式建成开馆，藏书59万册，其中仅收集、整理和保护的藏文古籍就达10多万册。