Nanjing Library

Nanjing Library, abbreviated as NaNTU, is the third largest library in China, the fourth largest library in Asia, the national first-class library, the first batch of national key protection units of ancient books, and the document resource guarantee center of Jiangsu Province.

Nanjing Library, formerly known as Jiangnan library founded in 1907, is the first public library in China. In 1927, it was changed into Guoxue Library of National Central University. In 1933, the national government established the National Central Library. In 1952, Guoxue library and the original central library merged into the current Nanjing Library.

By the end of 2013, Nanjing Library had a total collection of more than 11 million books, second only to the National Library of China and Shanghai Library. It is the third largest library in China and the fourth largest library in Asia. Among them, there are 1.6 million ancient books, including 140000 rare books and 700000 documents of the Republic of China. There are many Tang Dynasty manuscripts, Liao Dynasty manuscripts, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties manuscripts in the collection. 454 kinds of them have been included in the national precious ancient books list.

Nanjing Library

Nanjing Library, located in Xuanwu District of Nanjing City, is the third largest library in China, the fourth largest library in Asia, the Provincial Public Library of Jiangsu Province, the first batch of national key protection units of ancient books, the national first-class library, and the document resource guarantee center of Jiangsu Province.

Nanjing Library, formerly known as Jiangnan library founded in 1907 (the 33rd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of Qing Dynasty), is the first public library in China. In 1927, it was changed into the library of Sinology of National Central University. In 1933, the national government established the National Central Library. In 1952, the library of Sinology and the original central library were merged into Nanjing Library. In 2007, the new library of Nanjing Library was completed and fully opened.

According to the information on the official website of the library in September 2018, the building area of the library is about 78000 square meters, with 20 reading rooms and more than 4000 reading seats. The library has a total collection of more than 12 million volumes, including 1.6 million ancient books, including 140000 rare books; 700000 documents of the Republic of China, and 524 kinds of them have been selected into the national precious ancient books list. Nanjing Library has 16 departments with 531 employees.

Jingyou Libu yunlue, a newly collected edition of Northern Song Dynasty in Nanjing Library, is regarded as an important discovery in recent years.

Historical evolution

The predecessor of Nanjing Library is Jiangnan library founded by duanfang, governor of Qing Dynasty.

In 1927, due to the implementation of the university district system, it was renamed the National Library of the fourth Sun Yat sen University.

In May 1928, it became the library of Sinology of National Central University.

In October 1929, the university district system was abolished and named Jiangsu Provincial Guoxue library, which is directly under the Education Department of Jiangsu Province.

In October 1932, it was incorporated into the National Nanjing Library.

In April 1933, the Ministry of education of Nanjing national government entrusted Jiang Fucong to build the National Central Library, which is located in Chengxian street.

In 1937, he moved to Chongqing.

In 1946, he returned to Nanjing.

On March 19, 1950, the central library was renamed the National Nanjing Library by the order of the central Ministry of culture.

In July 1954, when Jiangsu Province was founded, the Ministry of culture renamed the National Nanjing Library Nanjing Library.

In 2002, the construction of the daxinggong area (New Library) of Nanjing Library was officially started.

In November 2006, Nanjing Library was fully opened.

Collection strength

Collection resources

According to the information on the library's official website in September 2018, the total collection of Nanjing Library is more than 12 million, including 1.6 million ancient books, including 140000 rare books, and 700000 documents of the Republic of China. 524 species have been listed in the national precious ancient books list. There are also Tang Dynasty manuscripts, Liao Dynasty manuscripts, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties manuscripts in the collection. 524 kinds of them have been included in the national precious ancient books list. There are more than 50 kinds of digital resources, such as "CNKI", "Hantang collection", "ProQuest" and so on.

books and magazines in Chinese

According to the information on the library's official website in September 2018, Nanjing Library has collected more than 5430 kinds of Chinese periodicals, 340 kinds of Chinese newspapers and a large number of books and newspapers published by Hong Kong and Taiwan since the founding of the people's Republic of China. Among them, there are various standards, patent specifications, internal scientific and technological materials, and "Cultural Revolution" materials.

 

Foreign language books and periodicals

According to the information on the library's official website in September 2018, Nanjing Library has more than 600000 foreign language books, 908 western language periodicals and 36 newspapers.

 

Precious ancient books

According to the information on the library's official website in September 2018, Nanjing Library has collected more than 1.6 million ancient books, with more than 1 million sorted out, including more than 100000 rare books, including nearly 200 engraved books of song and Yuan Dynasties and nearly 7000 engraved books of Ming Dynasty. Among the five batches of national precious ancient books list published in 2016, more than 60 rare ancient books collected by Nanjing Library, including manuscript Shizhou Shihua, Ming Hongwu engraved Book History Huiyao and qingyingyuan manuscript Mr. Qingan Zhonghe Ji, were included in the list.

 

Documents of the Republic of China

According to the information on the library's official website in September 2018, Nanjing Library has collected more than 700000 copies of documents of the Republic of China, including more than 400000 books, nearly 10000 kinds of periodicals and more than 1000 kinds of newspapers during the period of the Republic of China. The contents involved politics, economy, military, culture, education, science and sports at that time. It includes government bulletins, meeting minutes, laws and regulations at all levels from the central government to the local government, as well as important documents of the parliament, the national assembly, the old CPPCC, the national assembly, the military institutions of the Kuomintang, and the party affairs of the Kuomintang; biographical materials of important figures in the political and military circles of the Kuomintang. In particular, a large number of mimeographed internal materials have not yet been published. In addition, the collection of revolutionary books and periodicals is also a major feature. The works of the Communist Party leaders in various periods and the propaganda publications in various revolutionary periods truly record the struggle course of the Communists, and reproduce the historical facts that the Communist Party of China has changed from small to large, from weak to strong, and finally achieved revolutionary victory.

 

Local Literature

According to the information on the official website of the library in September 2018, there are 15 categories of local literature in Nanjing Library, including regional nature, politics, economy, military, culture, science and technology, people, etc., including general records, government records, state and county records, local records, industry records, special records, etc.

 

Digital resources

According to the information on the library's official website in September 2018, Nanjing Library has more than 50 kinds of digital resources, including outsourcing resources (OCLC, e-books, Chinese database, foreign language database), open access resources, self built resources, etc.

 

Support and guarantee

As of December 2016, Nanjing Library has established 50 circulation service points in the whole province, realized the "one card" loan and return service in the main city, and opened modern services such as mobile phone self-service loan system, 24-hour self-service library, book mobile service vehicle, NaNTU mobile library, RFID self-service loan and return system, Pocket Library, etc.

 

As of December 2016, Nanjing Library has carried out the construction of three collection resource databases, of which, the modern Chinese literature and image database has completed nearly 15000 drawings; the Jiangsu local newspaper database has newly made 10 kinds of newspapers; the Republic of China comic book database has newly made 500 comic books, with a total of more than 45000 scanned pictures and 50000 drawings. We should promote the development of literature in the period of the Republic of China. New China was successfully photocopied and published. Nanjing Library has 221 issues, all of which have been sorted out and published. More than 700 kinds of historical documents and nearly 3000 volumes have been scanned.

 

In 1990, Nanjing Library and Nanjing disabled people's Federation founded the library of audio books for the blind, which is equipped with recording card holder, VCD, CD player, fast repeater, CD recorder, computer, recording production and other equipment

 

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Organization system

Team building

By the end of 2016, there were 531 employees in Nanjing Library, including 487 professional and technical personnel, 18 with senior professional titles, 82 with deputy senior professional titles and 169 with intermediate professional titles.

 

Institutional sector

According to the information on the library's official website in September 2018, Nanjing Library has Party committee office, librarian's office, personnel organization department, labor union, logistics support department, property management department, business management department (public digital culture construction center), social work department, acquisition and editing department, reader service department, information resource development department, information technology application department, historical literature department and research department（ There are 16 departments including the Institute of Sinology, the Department of new century library and the Secretariat of Jiangsu Library Association.

 

Construction achievements

Development achievements

Document development

In 2016, complete the image data of modern Chinese literature

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