 In the 1920s it was reorganized into a teachers college, after 1930 it served as headquarters for various government institutions until finally it became the Institute of Manuscripts of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.The institute collects, systematizes, stores and publishes analytical works related to many historical documents and exhibits that are kept in its archives.The collection includes about 40,000 works in various languages including Azeri, Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Chagatai which provide rare insight into what scholars from the Middle Ages thought about medicine, astronomy, mathematics, poetry, philosophy, law, history and geography.