Peking University Library

Peking University Library

Peking University Library is one of the earliest modern libraries in China. It has been approved by the State Council as one of the first batch of national key ancient books protection units. It has developed into a research-oriented library with rich resources, modernization, comprehensiveness and openness.

Peking University Library was formerly known as the library of Peking University, which was established in 1898. After the revolution of 1911, the library of Peking University was renamed Peking University Library. In 1952, Peking University Library merged with the former library of Yanjing University. In 2000, Peking University merged with Beijing Medical University, and the former library of Peking Medical University was renamed Peking University Medical Library.

By the end of 2015, Peking University Library was composed of the general library, the medical library, 38 branch libraries and the storage library, with a total area of about 90000 square meters, including 53000 square meters of total library area and more than 4000 reading seats. In 2009, the first remote storage library in China was built, with an area of nearly 5000 square meters. In 2014, the personnel (career establishment and contract system) of the whole library were composed of 14 doctors and 72 masters, There are 66 undergraduate students and 31 junior college students. The total and branch libraries have accumulated more than 11 million books (pieces), including more than 8 million paper books, and more than 3 million domestic and foreign digital resources, including various databases, electronic journals, e-books and multimedia resources.

Book city spring and Autumn

the Republic of China era

As early as the founding of Beijing Normal University, the collection of books of yuanqiang society and the official publishing house was returned to Beijing Normal University. This is the first collection of books of Beijing Normal University. Unfortunately, most of these books were destroyed by the gengzi incident.

In October 1902, the library of Beijing University was established. The first curator, Jingshi University, transferred Mei Guangxi to the post, and sent the first batch of books collected by local government publishing houses to Beijing. The library is located in a building behind the central hall of the Capital University (today's Jingshan East Street, in front of the Neima temple and Princess Hejia's old house). It is said that it is Princess Hejia's dressing house. At the beginning of its establishment, the library collected about 78000 books. Tongwen library joined Beijing Normal University, and its collection became the first one after the restoration of Beijing Normal University.

In 1904, he received the book donation from bilinlang library, which was the first batch of important individual donations accepted by Peking University Library and became the basis of rare books collection.

In March 1906, Wang Shengxi, the manager of the library, presided over the formulation of the Charter of the university library, and compiled the draft catalogue of Chinese books of the University.

On September 22, 1909, Jingshi University asked the provincial ambassadors to buy books and send them to Beijing, saying: "our school has set up branches, established libraries in accordance with the regulations, and widely purchased all kinds of Chinese and foreign books for students' reference. We searched Jiangsu, Jiangning, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei provinces, and sold all kinds of books to the official publishing houses, as well as the bookstores and bookstores inside and outside the city. I'd like to open a chapter and send it to you. If you dare to buy it according to the regulations, you can send it to Beijing, or the committee members can bring it to Beijing and send it to our hall for checking But it must be transported to Beijing in September for the purpose of starting school. "

From 1905 to 1911, the library spent more than 25000 liang of silver on the purchase of books.

On May 3, 1912, the national government approved the Ministry of education to petition the Capital University to be renamed Peking University, and the library was officially renamed Peking University Library.

In January 1914, Xu Hongbao, the director of the library, conducted a comprehensive inventory of the books in his collection, and compiled a draft catalogue of Chinese book lending and a classified catalogue of Western books for readers.

In the early years of the Republic of China, thanks to alumni Dr. Zhou Muxi, Baron sakagawa of Japan, British Professor Adams, lecturer Huang Shuyin and other books with high academic value, the collection was greatly supplemented.

In April 1916, the library formulated eight rules for borrowing books, which stipulated the procedures for borrowing books, the scope of lending books, the limit of lending volumes, the borrowing time, and the compensation for damaged and lost books; the library formulated seven rules for reading rooms, which stipulated the readers and reading time, the procedures for reading books, the indoor order, the compensation for damaged books, and the handling of violations.

In January 1918, on the recommendation of Zhang Shizhao, President Cai Yuanpei appointed Li Dazhao as the director of the library, and promoted the Peking University Council to pass the resolution of "changing the director of the library into a professor". During his term of office, Li Dazhao's Library grew at an average annual rate of about 10000 volumes, and through a series of reforms and reorganizations, he built Peking University Library into a leading and influential Library in China The first-class university library is called "father of Chinese Modern Library" by ala "World Encyclopedia of Library and information services". In April, the library formulated the "revised library borrowing rules" to improve the borrowing system. The opening time of Peking University Library was also extended in that month, making it one of the longest Opening Libraries at that time.

In May 1920, Li Dazhao presided over the formulation of the trial regulations of the Library Department of the general affairs office of Peking University, which was approved and implemented by the Library Committee of Peking University. The regulations absorb the management methods of foreign libraries, and stipulate the division of responsibilities and work requirements. This month, under the leadership of Li Dazhao, the library organization was adjusted, and four business departments were set up, namely, login class, book purchasing class, cataloging class and dictionary class.

Since 1920, Peking University Library also used the name of "Peking University Library Department" until 1930.

In June 1923, the library of Congress sent nearly one million library catalog cards to Peking University Library, and then sent about 40000 or 50000 new cards every year. It was the only complete library of Congress card catalog in East Asia at that time.

In 1927, Zhang zuolin, a warlord, merged nine universities in Beijing, including Peking University, into a "Capital University". Peking University was devastated and its library business was at a standstill.

In December 1930, Jiang Menglin was the president of Peking University, and presided over a series of reforms, including changing the library to the direct leadership of the president, officially abolishing the "Library Department" and adopting the unified name of "Peking University Library"; taking one fifth of the school's funds as the purchase cost of books and instruments, the collection grew rapidly. The golden age of this development was forced by the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war in 1937 Interruption.

In August 1937, due to the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, the library began to move to the south, and all the books were occupied in Beiping. In October, Changsha temporary University, established by Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University, officially opened. The library of the three universities cooperated with the Peking library which moved to Changsha and the Institute of history and language of Academia Sinica to establish a temporary university library. Yuan Tongli, the director of Peking library, was also the director. In April 1938, Changsha temporary University moved to Kunming and changed its name to National Southwest United University. The library also changed its name to National Southwest United University Library. Yuan Tongli was the librarian and Yan Wenyu was the director.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese war in 1945, Yuan Tongli, as a representative of the government, came to Beiping to receive the library of Peking University and temporarily took the post of director.

In December 1948, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Peking University, exhibitions were held in the library, including the exhibition of the history of Peking University and the works of the late professors, the exhibition of rare books in the collection, the exhibition of the edition of shuijingzhu (rare books and the exhibition books of shuijingzhu were compiled into the rare books of Peking University Library), etc.

From 1946 to 1949, the collection of books increased rapidly again, becoming the second largest library in China after the Beiping library.

In the early days of the people's Republic of China

In February 1949, the military control commission of Beiping city officially took over Peking University; in May 1949, the school affairs committee of new Peking University was established, and Xiang Da was appointed as the librarian.

In 1952, the new Peking University was relocated to Yanjing University in the western suburb of Beijing. About 750000 books collected by Yanjing University, Sino French university, Sino German society, American information service and other institutions were incorporated into Peking University Library, and 200000 books were transferred out with the adjustment of departments. A batch of gold and stone rubbings originally stored in the Institute of liberal arts of Peking University, with "Yifengtang" and "liufengtang" as the main collection, were transferred to the library of Peking University. The library was relocated to the former Yanjing University Library in the western suburb of Beijing (known as the general library of Peking University Library). It has a total collection of 1.6 million copies. There are 71 staff members, including 38 from Peking University and 33 from Yanda, and 14 workers.

From 1954 to 1957, the regulations on the work of the Chinese Cataloging unit, the regulations on the work of the Western cataloging unit, the regulations on the work of the periodical data unit, and the work manual of the interview department were formulated.

In 1966, the Cultural Revolution began, and the Cultural Revolution began. "The Chinese author catalogue and the Western subject catalogue, which the library insisted on Compiling for decades, were interrupted. According to the requirements of war preparation, the rare book was moved to Hanzhong Branch of Peking University.

In 1969, Hanzhong Branch Library was established. In 1979, the library of Hanzhong Branch was canceled, and the rare books and some ordinary books were moved back to Peking University Library.

In April 1972, the Standing Committee of the Party committee of the University held a meeting and approved that the new library should be built between the philosophy building and the first teaching building

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