Hangzhou Library

Hangzhou Library

Hangzhou Library, located in Jianggan District, Hangzhou City, is one of the earliest Provincial Public Libraries in China. It is the advanced collective of Zhejiang provincial library work and Zhejiang provincial civilized library. It was rated as the national first-class Library in May 2018.

Hangzhou Library was founded on July 1, 1958. Its original name was Hangzhou Library. It was changed to its current name in May 1961. The children's branch of Hangzhou Library was established in 1963. In October 2008, the new Hangzhou Library was officially opened.

As of December 2018, Hangzhou Library has a building area of 50000 square meters, 3942 reading seats, 16 departments, 186 staff, and 5.863 million volumes of literature, including 32000 ancient books, 330000 newspapers and 647000 audio-visual literature.

Historical evolution

In July 1958, Hangzhou Library was established.

In May 1961, Hangzhou Library was renamed Hangzhou Library.

In 1963, it accepted the children's reading room of Zhejiang Library and established the children's branch of Hangzhou Library.

In January 1990, Hangzhou library established a mobile library.

In 2003, Hangzhou Library joined the member libraries of the League of nations.

In October 2008, the new Hangzhou Library was completed in Qianjiang new city.

In 2010, Hangzhou Library was designated as the second batch of "national key protection units of ancient books" by the State Council.

In May 2018, Hangzhou Library was rated as a national first-class library.

In November 2019, the list of national intangible cultural heritage representative project protection units was announced, and Hangzhou Library was qualified as "West Lake legend" project protection unit.

Collection strength

Collection resources

As of December 2018, Hangzhou Library has collected 5.863 million volumes of literature, including 32000 volumes of ancient books, including 4845 rare ancient books, 330000 newspapers and periodicals, 647000 audio-visual literature and 1212000 e-books.

Ancient books and documents

As of December 2018, Hangzhou Library has more than 40000 ancient books and Republic of China books, including 4845 rare ancient books and 1400 kinds of rubbings. There are 29 rare ancient books in the collection, which are included in the first batch of national precious ancient books list.

Local Literature

As of December 2018, Hangzhou Library has collected nearly ten thousand volumes of local literature in Hangzhou. The carrier forms include books, ancient books, periodicals, newspapers, rubbings and CD ROMs, covering all aspects of Hangzhou's development. Wenlan (quarterly), a Hangzhou cultural journal, has been published to provide reference services for Hangzhou's economic and cultural development.

Digital resources

As of December 2018, Hangzhou Library has collected 103 digital resource databases, including superstar journals, Wanfang Data knowledge service platform (package library), Chinese online digital library, superstar reading show, Chinese poetry database, etc., including 10 characteristic databases and 15 open resource databases.

 

Support and guarantee

As of December 2018, Hangzhou Library has built a leading automatic service system in China, which has realized such services as joint bibliographic retrieval, centralized literature cataloging, universal library card, software and hardware platform sharing, document borrowing and returning, and Digital Resource Co Construction and sharing. The library has full coverage of wireless network, and is equipped with touch screen reading guide system, newspaper reading system, self-service book borrowing machine and self-service scanner. At the same time, it also provides a variety of open service facilities, such as book borrowing appointment, telephone renewal, online renewal, WAP website renewal, SMS renewal, 24-hour self-service library, etc.

 

Organization system

Team building

As of December 2018, there are 187 staff in Hangzhou Library, including 152 professional and technical personnel, 2 with senior professional title, 19 with deputy senior professional title and 72 with intermediate professional title.

 

Institutional sector

As of December 2018, Hangzhou Library has a comprehensive office, a business office, a finance department, a logistics and security department, a technical support department, a cataloguing center, a social and cultural activities department, a special literature center, a literature lending center, an urban life theme center, a music branch, a Buddhist branch, a research and exchange department, a literature service and publishing center, an information production and communication center, and a blind library The library has 16 departments.

 

Construction achievements

Development achievements

Document development

In 2018, Hangzhou library published the special issue of "two sessions" in 2018, including "comprehensive protection and utilization of both sides of Qiantang River in Dawan District era", "promoting the construction of Hangzhou as a world famous city" and "promoting the transformation and upgrading of pension industry". He edited and published "honing time: Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Hangzhou Library (1958-2018)", "Hangzhou engraving atlas", "Wenlan special issue", "Xiaoshan people's records" and other books.

 

Resource construction

In 2018, Hangzhou Library purchased 89829 kinds of books, 143816 volumes, 319 kinds of newspapers, 340 copies, 3387 kinds of periodicals, 1781 kinds of audio-visual literature and 40 databases. 249773 volumes were processed.

 

academic achievements

In 2018, Hangzhou Library Staff published 41 academic achievements. Among them, there are 36 journal papers and 5 research results.

 

Academic journals

Wenlan public opinion edition is a periodical in charge of Hangzhou culture, broadcasting and Tourism Bureau and sponsored by Hangzhou Library in 2019. It is a quarterly magazine with about 46 pages and 20000 words. Wenlan is retro in form and innovative in content. Combining with real-time hot spots and public opinion information, its columns are divided into: current affairs view, hang'erfeng, hot spot focus, public management, culture and tourism express.

 

Institutional honors

In 2010, Hangzhou Library was designated as the second batch of "national key protection units of ancient books" by the State Council.

In 2011, after joint evaluation and deliberation at the meeting, it was awarded the honorary title of "Zhejiang civilized unit" by Zhejiang spiritual civilization construction Steering Committee.

 

In 2017, the general office of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee was awarded the first prize of the advanced unit of information work of the Party committee system of the city in 2017.

 

In September 2018, it was rated as the excellent social science base of Zhejiang Province by Zhejiang Federation of social sciences.

In 2018, it was rated as the advanced unit of Hangzhou anti-terrorism work in 2017 by Hangzhou anti-terrorism work leading group.

 

In December 2019, Wenlan public opinion edition of Hangzhou Library won the "best column Award".

 

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Cultural tradition

Image logo

The image logo of Hangzhou Library is mainly in bright red. The overall design is composed of "fingerprint", traditional "figure" and "West Lake ripple" graphic elements through artistic deformation. The traditional Chinese character "Tu" is cleverly integrated into the fingerprint graphic elements. A round of "ripples" is a city of Hangzhou. The water of the West Lake is rippling. "Rippling" reflects the geographical specificity of Hangzhou Library, and shows the historical and cultural heritage of Hangzhou city with the dynamic water.

Mission vision

Mission: popularize knowledge, spread culture, promote learning and support innovation.

Vision: world class and domestic leading metropolitan library.

 

Cultural Activity

According to the information on the library's official website in January 2020, the brand cultural activities carried out by Hangzhou library include "yuehangtu", world reading day, fun childhood, Youli · our bank, environmental protection family day, etc.

 

Reader service

Reader's Guide

Notice for entry

In order to protect the public interests of the readers and maintain the good environment and order of the library, the readers entering the library should abide by the following regulations:

Readers are required to enter the library through the security gate with the resident ID card of the people's Republic of China or the citizen card of Hangzhou Library.

Please consciously abide by the code of citizens of Hangzhou, the code of conduct of "six no's" and the relevant code of civilization of Hangzhou to be civilized citizens and readers.

Please consciously abide by the rules and regulations of Hangzhou Library, and obey the management and persuasion of the staff.

Please pay attention to clean appearance and civilized behavior. Don't take off shoes or lie down on the reading chair or sofa.

Please keep quiet, put communication and electronic equipment in silent or vibration state, do not chase and play.

Please take good care of the literature and service facilities and equipment, do not deface the literature, do not tamper with the service facilities and equipment, damage must be compensated according to the provisions; the literature without borrowing procedures can not be used

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