Guangzhou Library

Guangzhou Library

Guangzhou library is located in Zhujiang East Road, Guangzhou city. It is the cultural window of Guangzhou. In 2018, it was rated as the national first-class library by the Ministry of culture and tourism of the people's Republic of China. In 2016, the people's Government of Guangdong Province announced that the library is the key protection unit of ancient books in Guangdong Province.

The predecessor of Guangzhou library is Zhongshan Library, which was built in October 1933. In 1938, Guangzhou was occupied and the library was closed. In 1949, it was renamed Zhongshan Library. After the liberation of Guangzhou, it was called Zhongshan Library. In February 2006, the new library of Guangzhou was officially founded. In June 2013, the new library of Guangzhou was fully opened.

According to the information on the library's official website in November 2018, Guangzhou Library covers an area of 21000 square meters, with a total construction area of 98000 square meters, 4000 reading seats, 14 departments, 295 staff, and 8.433 million volumes of literature.

Historical evolution

In 1927, the mayor of Guangzhou, Lin Yunxin, proposed to hold a Municipal Zhongshan Library in memory of Sun Yat Sen and promote cultural undertakings. It is decided by the municipal executive council to plan and organize.

In 1928, the Preparatory Committee of Guangzhou Zhongshan Library was established, with 16 members including Lin Yunxin and Du Dingyou.

In 1929, the Municipal Zhongshan Library broke ground in the former Guangfu Academy on Wende road.

In October 1933, the Municipal Zhongshan Library was completed and opened. Wu Zhimei was the first librarian.

In 1934, the provincial library was withdrawn, and its collection of 33500 books was received by the municipal library.

In 1938, Guangzhou was occupied by the Japanese, and Zhongshan Library was closed.

In 1945, after the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Du Dingyou also served as the director of the preparatory office for the restoration of Zhongshan Library.

In 1949, it was renamed Guangzhou Zhongshan Library. After the liberation of Guangzhou, it was called Guangzhou Zhongshan Library.

In 1955, the provincial and municipal libraries were merged into Zhongshan Library of Guangdong Province. The original site of Guangzhou Zhongshan Library was changed to the North Library of Guangdong Zhongshan Library, which is called Sun Yat Sen Literature Library.

In December 1980, the office meeting of Guangzhou municipal Party committee decided to prepare for the construction of Guangzhou library.

In January 1981, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of culture announced the establishment of the preparatory group of Guangzhou Library and the decision to change the "spark ignited Museum" to the site of Guangzhou library.

The opening ceremony of Guangzhou library was held on January 2, 1982.

In October 2004, Guangzhou Development Planning Committee officially approved the new library construction project of Guangzhou library.

On February 20, 2006, the foundation of the new Guangzhou library was officially laid.

On December 28, 2012, the new Guangzhou library was officially opened.

On June 23, 2013, the new Guangzhou library was fully opened.

Collection strength

Collection resources

As of December 2017, Guangzhou library has collected 8.433 million volumes (pieces) of paper literature resources, including 13683 volumes (pieces) of ancient books, 701218 volumes (volumes) of audio-visual literature, 51 microfilms, and 32 digital information databases.

Ancient books and documents

As of December 2017, Guangzhou library has collected 13683 volumes (pieces) of ancient books and documents, including the general catalogue of Chinese rare books, Tianhuang yudie · painted nanwaitianyuan Zhao's Genealogy: Yongchun, Fujian: ten volumes, Mr. Zhou Jingliang's slips, imperial Shengjing Fu and two kinds of four color scripts and operas of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty.

 

Local Literature

According to the information on the library's official website in November 2018, the local literature collected by Guangzhou library includes Guangzhou Dadian database, Guangdong historical literature bibliography database, Guangzhou local chronicles joint directory search, Guangzhou people database, Guangdong wonderful, Guangzhou humanities digital library, Chinese government open information integration service platform · Guangzhou station, and the content includes the local literature of Guangzhou There are 541 kinds of local chronicles, including politics, economy, culture and people's livelihood of Guangzhou, 500000 kinds of information resources highlighting Guangzhou's characteristics, and Guangzhou's cultural heritage materials.

 

Digital resources

As of December 2017, Guangzhou library has 32 digital information resources. It includes CNKI, Wanfang Data, Duxiu academic search, FirstSearch base package, Wanfang primary and secondary digital library, etc.

 

One belt, one road city, was collected by the Guangzhou library. According to the official website information of the library in November 2018, there are the central resource repositories of the library of Hong Kong, including the comparative analysis system of the macro City, the occupation all-round training library, the information network of the State Council Development Research Center, the simulation test bank of silver character examination, the database of "one belt and one road", the data library of the leather book, and the E line diagram.

 

Support and guarantee

As of December 2017, Guangzhou library has realized the integration of collection, borrowing, reading and consulting; opened modern services such as radio frequency identification (RFID), automatic document sorting system, self-service equipment, Guangzhou Digital Library, wechat, mobile library (APP), 24-hour self-service library; opened 17 branch libraries, 7 24-hour self-service libraries, and flow chart There are 20 service points in the library.

 

Organization system

Team building

As of December 2017, there are 295 employees in Guangzhou Library, including 74 postgraduates, accounting for 25.1% of the total number of employees, 186 with bachelor's degree, accounting for 63.1% of the total number of employees, 7 with senior professional title, 23 with deputy senior professional title, 128 with intermediate professional title, and 63 with junior professional title.

 

Institutional sector

According to the information on the library's official website in November 2018, Guangzhou library has an office, human resources department, literature circulation department, information consulting department, special service department, children and youth reading department, network service department, social activity promotion department (with the brand of network service department at the same time), Central Library Office, acquisition and cataloguing center, technology department, research and development department and asset property management department Department, security department.

 

Construction achievements

Development achievements

Document development

As of December 2017, Guangzhou library has completed the acquisition of 571000 volumes and pieces of literature, the processing of 630000 volumes and pieces, the digital processing of 9668 volumes of genealogy, the conversion of 107000 pieces of new collection data Marc and the uploading of OCLC database.

 

Scientific research achievements

In 2017, Guangzhou library staff published 56 library professional papers, including 8 core journals; compiled and published 3 kinds of professional works; 6 projects were approved, 2 finished projects and 10 in research.

 

Academic journals

Guangzhou library communication, founded in 2013, is a publication sponsored by Guangzhou library. It aims to promote the rich and colorful reading promotion activities in the library and help readers make full use of library resources. The journal is a monthly one and is published in the last ten days of each month.

 

Institutional honors

In 2017, Guangzhou library was awarded the title of "Guangdong humanities and Social Sciences popularization base".

 

In 2017, it won the title of charity library.

 

Cultural tradition

Image logo

The design concept of the image logo of Guangzhou library comes from the architectural modeling of the library. The overall modeling adopts the East-West trend, the North-South tower, the unique elegant shape of the word "Zhi". It highlights the layered architectural texture, implies the overlapping of books and the deposition of historical culture, and integrates the cultural elements such as arcade, reflecting the artistic characteristics of Lingnan architecture.

Purpose and vision

Purpose: readers first, service first.

 

Vision: with the vision of "connecting the wisdom of the world and enriching the reading life", we will build a first-class international metropolitan library with people as the center ".

 

Cultural Activity

According to the information on the library's official website in December 2018, the brand activities carried out by Guangzhou library include a series of lectures on Cantonese Opera and Cantonese opera, zero distance music, meeting library, yuechuang space, little cherry reading tree, Yangcheng school, Guangzhou reading month, etc.

 

Current leader

Reader service

Reader's Guide

Opening Hours

It closes on Wednesdays and opens normally on holidays.

Opening hours of national legal holidays: 9:00-16:00.

Closed book return service is provided every Wednesday from 10:00 to 16:00.

 

Notice for entry

Keep quiet and do not make any noise.

Smoking is strictly prohibited in the library to maintain the health of the library.

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