[1] The predecessor of the Wuhan University Library was the Zi Qiang School founded by Zhang Zhidong.

[2] In 1913, the National Wuchang Higher Normal College was founded, containing a small library.

[3] In 2000, Wuhan University Library and its surrounding buildings were listed in the Fifth Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level batch.

[7] Wuhan University Library values its geomatic book collections as its basic development orientation and maintains the most integrated geomatics global periodicals, foreign meeting proceedings, numerous scale relief maps and distant sensing picture photographs.

The library is known especially for the foreign periodical collection, in which it has over 2700 global periodical headings, covering the earliest volumes of German technical journal Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen, complete from the initial volume in 1873 to the present.