Shaanxi Provincial Library

Shaanxi Provincial Library, founded in September 1909, is the largest public library in Shaanxi Province and the earliest public library in Western China. Originally named Shaanxi library, the provincial map is attached to the Academic Affairs Office in Liangfu street, Xi'an. On September 30, 2001, the new Shaanxi Provincial Library was officially opened to the public. The new library is located at the intersection of Chang'an North Road and south 2nd Ring Road. The main building has 12 floors and the podium has 6 floors. It has a designed collection capacity of 4 million books and 2000 reading seats.

Shaanxi Provincial Library

Shaanxi Provincial Library, founded in August 1909, is one of the earliest public libraries in China and the earliest public library in Western China. It is one of the first batch of "national key protection units of ancient books", a "national first-class library" assessed by the former Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China, and a civilized unit of Shaanxi Province.

Shaanxi Provincial Library was founded in August 1909, initially known as Shaanxi library; in 1927, it was renamed as the first Zhongshan Library of Shaanxi Province; in 1931, it was renamed as the first library of Shaanxi Province; in July 1953, it was officially named as Shaanxi Provincial Library; on September 30, 2001, the new library of Shaanxi Provincial Library was completed and officially opened to the public.

According to the information on the official website of the library in September 2018, the total construction area of the library is 47000 square meters, with a total collection of more than 5.07 million volumes (pieces), including more than 3.99 million books, more than 320000 ancient books and more than 605000 newspapers and periodicals. In addition, there are more than 3.59 million e-books and more than 144000 audio-visual literature, microfabrication and other literature. He has collected more than 206000 new books and more than 5000 printed newspapers and periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages.

Historical evolution

In August 1909, Shaanxi library was established.

In 1915, it was attached with the exhibition hall of quangong and the forest of Steles in Xi'an, which was named Shaanxi Provincial Library.

In 1927, it changed its name to the first Zhongshan Library of Shaanxi Province, abolished the exhibition hall of quangong, and added Shaanxi civilian library and Shaanxi Provincial 43 library.

In 1931, it was renamed the first library of Shaanxi Province.

In April 1937, it was renamed Xijing Library of Shaanxi Province.

In 1944, the original Xi'an stele forest and historical relics were put under the Shaanxi History Museum.

In May 1949, it was taken over by the government of Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region and renamed Xi'an Library of Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region.

In April 1950, after the establishment of Shaanxi Provincial People's government, the library was renamed Xi'an People's Library of Shaanxi Province.

On July 2, 1953, it was officially named Shaanxi Provincial Library.

On September 30, 2001, the new library of Shaanxi Provincial Library was built and put into use.

Collection strength

Collection resources

According to the information on the library's official website in September 2018, the total collection of Shaanxi Provincial Library reached more than 5.07 million volumes (pieces), including more than 3.99 million books, more than 320000 ancient books and more than 605000 newspapers and periodicals. In addition, there are more than 3.59 million e-books and more than 144000 audio-visual literature, microfabrication and other literature. He has collected more than 206000 new books and more than 5000 printed newspapers and periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages.

Precious ancient books

By the end of 2017, Shaanxi Provincial Library has collected more than 320000 ancient books, including 5594 volumes of Qisha collection (6263 volumes of Quanjing) in song and Yuan Dynasty, national orphans such as Xiangyang County annals, detailed Yugong annals, Tongguan county annals, and shiqinglu in Ming Dynasty, supplement and correction of Wang Zhuangyuan's annotation classification of poems by Mr. Dongpo in Yuan Dynasty, and annotation of Chuci in Ming Dynasty 》"Duishan Wenji", "Meipi Ji" and other rare books in China. There are more than 1500 local chronicles, among which there are about 300 species and more than 700 local chronicles of Shaanxi Province.

 

Journals of the Republic of China

By the end of 2017, Shaanxi Provincial Library had collected 230 journals of the Republic of China, more than 605000 volumes, covering philosophy, politics, economy, military, law, literature, history, education, etc.

 

 

Local Literature

As of August 2018, Shaanxi Provincial Library has collected 178 volumes of Taiwan's "local chronicles of China Series", 1144 volumes of Shaanxi literature and history materials, 95 volumes of Shaanxi Provincial chronicles, 445 volumes of Shaanxi Provincial Industry chronicles, 191 volumes of Shaanxi Provincial Local Chronicles, and 138 kinds of Shaanxi Provincial Yearbook.

 

　　

Digital resources

As of August 2018, the information on the library's official website shows that the total amount of digital resources of Shaanxi Provincial Library has reached 120tb; more than 76 databases have been published, including 56 purchased resources and 20 self built databases with the theme of intangible culture, local chronicles, local celebrities and other characteristic resources of Shaanxi Province.

 

Support and guarantee

As of September 2018, the information on the library's official website shows that Shaanxi Provincial Library has formed a relatively perfect service system with literature borrowing service, digital resource service, reference service, extended service, special group service, literature development, lecture exhibition, education and training, cultural information resource sharing project, ancient book protection, and provincial public library service alliance as the main body System.

 

As of September 2018, according to the information on the library's official website, Shaanxi Provincial Library has set up 20 branches all over the province, and has opened modern services such as mobile library, 24-hour self-service library, book mobile service vehicle, RFID self-service borrowing and returning system, and visually impaired reading room.

 

 

Organization system

Team building

In December 2016, there were 202 staff in Shaanxi Provincial Library, including 11% with graduate degree or above, 81% with college degree or above, 163 with professional title, 25 with senior title, 93 with intermediate title and 45 with junior title.

 

Institutional sector

As of August 2018, according to the information on the library's official website, Shaanxi Provincial Library has an office, planning and finance department, business department, society office, network technology department, book borrowing department, collection and newspapers department, development research department, reading promotion department, conference and Exhibition Department, education and training department, new library construction office, sharing engineering office, security department, engineering department and state-owned assets department There are 23 departments including marketing science department, retiree management department, children's Department, reference department, digital resources department, research and development department, local literature department, historical literature department, interview and cataloguing department.

 

Research and development

Development achievements

Document development

The rare local chronicles series of Shaanxi library collection was jointly published by Beijing Library Press and Shaanxi Provincial Library in 2006. It contains 55 kinds of rare local chronicles collected by Shaanxi Provincial Library. From the regional aspect, the local chronicles cover the whole Shaanxi Province. There are 23 species in Guanzhong, 18 species in southern Shaanxi, 10 species in Northern Shaanxi, and 3 species in other provinces.

 

Academic journals

Contemporary library was founded in March 1982. It is a quarterly academic journal sponsored by Shaanxi Library Society, which is an open journal. The main columns of the journal are: theory, service forum, practice world, resource construction, data mailbox, book information retrieval, etc.

 

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Awards and honors

In 2005, it was awarded the title of "first class library" by the former Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China;

In 2010, it was awarded the title of national "first-class library" by the former Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China;

In 2012, he was awarded the titles of "Shaanxi civilized unit" and "Shaanxi advanced collective" by Shaanxi provincial Party committee and government;

In 2013, it was awarded the title of national "first class library" by the former Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China;

 

In 2014, it won the title of "excellent propaganda unit of Digital Library Promotion Project";

 

In May 2018, it won the title of "advanced unit of public opinion and information work in Shaanxi Province" in 2017.

 

Cultural tradition

Image logo

The logo of Shaanxi Provincial Library is the shape of a unfolding book, a ladder climbing up, and the combination of S and l letters, which constitute the logo of Shaanxi Provincial Library, and also condenses the belief and expectation of librarians.

S is the first letter of "Shaanxi" Chinese pinyin and English name Shaanxi, and l is the first letter of English "library". The combination of the two represents Shaanxi Provincial Library. The deformed combination of S and l is like a unfolding book, which embodies the

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