Daga cikin kundin 7,900,000 (2004) da ke cikin ɗakin karatu akwai abubuwa 160,000 da aka buga kafin 1801, fiye da 26,000 rubuce-rubuce (ciki har da rubuce-rubucen kiɗa 6,887), fiye da 114,000 bugawar kiɗa da zane-zane 400,000. Tarin ɗakin karatu ya haɗa da hotuna da sauran takardun iconographic, fiye da 101,000 atlases da taswira, fiye da 2,000,000 ephemera, da fiye da 2,000,000 littattafai da kusan 800,000 kwafin mujallolin daga ƙarni na 19 zuwa 21. Abubuwan da suka fi dacewa a cikin tarin sun haɗa da shafuka 151 na Codex Suprasliensis, wanda aka rubuta a cikin UNESCO na Memory of the World Register Programme a 2007 a cikin amincewa da muhimmancinsa na kasa da na yanki.A 2012 ɗakin karatu ya sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar don ƙara miliyan 1.3 zuwa littafin World Library Tambaya: Cat nawa ne zane-zane a cikin ɗakin karatu?
400,000 (ɗari huɗu)