Abstract: Yi documents have distinctive characteristics and are valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation in general. They are the basis for Yi studies and Yi culture inheritance. Constructing banks for these documents in local public libraries can effectively protect ancient Yi books, highlight collection characteristics, inherit Yi culture, innovate library service and promote social development. From three perspectives - classification, deployment and collection methods of Yi documents - this paper first analyzes the general information of Yi documents, then proceeds to, taking Library of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture as an Example, analyze the general information of building of Yi document bank before pointing out some difficulties facing the task, such as lack of an overall plan, inadequacy in librarian expertise, and difficulty in collecting the highly dispersed Yi documents. To tackle the existing problems regarding building of Yi document resources bank, the author finally proposes some top-level design ideas, including making sure that the local public libraries act as the major parts and improving expertise of librarians of local public libraries.

Key words: public library, Yi document, resource bank building