[7] As of 2006, the library had a collection of 5 million items including books, maps, manuscripts, dissertations, journals, and newspapers; there were about 22,000 members.

[10] Statistics on the publication of books in Turkmenistan remain unavailable, and the national bibliography has been stale for years.

[8][9] On February 16, 2007, a complex of new buildings was commissioned in Ashgabat, which includes the State Cultural Centre of Turkmenistan .

The building houses books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings and manuscripts.

Any Turkmen and foreign citizen may get a reader card by submitting their identification documents such as passport or Birth certificate.