Up to December 2022, the collection of Guangxi University Library totaled 5,245,400 volumes, 3,720,000 e-books, 9,880,000 dissertations, 260,000 hours of audio and video, 56,000 full-text electronic journals, and 206 large-scale databases. It boasts renowned domestic and international academic databases, such as Elsevier, WOS, Scifinder, IEL, Wiley, Springer, EBSCO, EI, Nature, Science, SAGE, CNKI, Wanfang, Super Star, etc. It has formed a multidisciplinary, multilevel, multicarrier and distinctive collection system covering thirteen major academic disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, management, teaching, arts and medicine, etc., which effectively supports the university's discipline construction and talent cultivation.

GXU Library, from the building, facilities, to service functions, management mode, is basically in line with international standards, reflecting a new concept: large open room, full open shelves, dense bookshelves and ordinary bookshelves interlaced on each floor, and incorporation of collection, borrowing, reading, retrieval and management. It is open continuously from 7:00 to 22:30 every day, up to 108.5 hours per week.

In addition to providing regular books and periodicals lending services, the Library can also provide a network of 24×7 bibliographic information query, new book notification, CD-ROM and network database retrieval, multimedia resources browsing, reference consulting, inter-library loan and document delivery, reader training and other forms of electronic information services, as well as scientific and technological research, book checking and searching, finalization service of the selection of topics, disciplinary services, patent literature search and analysis and other in-depth information services.

The Library has established a high-speed local network with 10,000-megabit access to the campus network, 1,000-megabit floor interconnection and 100-megabit desktop interconnection, with a total of 1,248 network nodes in the library, and computerized management of all the business work. 450 computers (or terminals) in the library are connected with the campus network, CERNET（China Education and Research Network） and the Internet, so as to realize the smooth connection of the library automation management system with the business management system of the faculty resource office. At the same time, WIFI service is provided for readers, forming a convenient distributed digital information service network. Self-service equipment such as self-service book lending and returning machines, self-service seat selection system, self-service printing and copying have also been put into use. Through the mobile library, the library WeChat public account and so on to strengthen the library information service push and resource publicity, provide online reading, full text search, offline borrowing, mobile reading, download and other digital content and knowledge services.

GXU Library actively participates in the activities of building and sharing of literature and information resources, and establishes extensive cooperation with major libraries and information centers in China. It is one of the participants in the construction of CALIS HEI Dissertation Database, a member library of C-level cataloging of CALIS Union Catalog Center and a second-level service center of CADAL project. It is the seat of the Secretariat of Library and Information Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Universities and Colleges and Library Professional Committee of Guangxi Higher Education Association, it’s also the leading membership of CALIS Guangxi Document and Information Service Center. In 2012, the Library was approved as the Ministry of Education's ministerial-level scientific and technical investigation station; in 2015, the Library was awarded the title of "Advanced Unit of Guangxi Ancient Books Protection"; in 2018, the Library was awarded the "Outstanding Contribution Award for the 20th Anniversary of CALIS Project Construction"; in March 2019, our Intellectual Property Information Service Center was approved to be one of the first 23 national intellectual property information service centers for colleges and universities in China.

GXU Library adheres to the service concept of "reader-oriented, quality first, initiative, satisfaction", takes the main line of serving the school's "double first-class" construction, pushes forward the library's functional change and service transformation, accelerates the library's automation and intelligence process, carries out a variety of disciplinary services and knowledge services. It strives to build a high-level literature resource guarantee and service system supporting the construction of the world's first-class disciplines, so as to make the library become the school's document guarantee and sharing center, disciplinary service and intelligence center, learning and innovation experience center, and an important place and position for cultural propagation.