The school can be traced back to East Sichuan Normal School as early as 1906, and 1936 was renamed Sichuan Institute of Education. 1950, Sichuan Institute of Education merged with the National Women's Teachers College to form Southwest Normal College, and the departments of agriculture, horticulture and agricultural products manufacturing merged with the private Xianghui College founded by 1946 to form Southwest Agricultural College.

From 65438 to 0985, the two schools were renamed Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University respectively. In 2000, Chongqing Light Industry Vocational College was merged into Southwest Normal University; 200 1, Southwest Agricultural University, Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College and Citrus Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences merged to form a new Southwest Agricultural University. In 2005, Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University merged to form Southwest University.

Collection resources

By the end of February, 20021and 65438+,the libraries of Southwest University included: Central Library, Hong Wen Library (formerly Southwest Normal University Library), Shi Chong Library, Rongchang Campus Library, and many professional libraries such as Marxist Theory Library, Economic Management Library, Law Library, Foreign Language Library and Mathematics Library, with 4.678 million paper documents.

Among them, there are 2.92 million Chinese books; 287,000 foreign language books; 147,000 ancient books; More than 40,000 documents of the Republic of China; More than 500,000 copies have been published in Chinese and foreign languages; More than 3,000 Chinese and foreign publications; There are 170 kinds of Chinese newspapers.