Located in Shangcheng District of Hangzhou, Hangzhou Library is one of the earliest provincial public libraries established in China. It is an advanced collective of Zhejiang Library and a civilized library of Zhejiang Province. 20 18 was rated as a national first-class library in May.
Hangzhou Library was established in July 1958, formerly known as Hangzhou Library. In May, it was renamed as 196 1, and the Children's Branch of Hangzhou Library was established in June 1963. In June 2008, the new Hangzhou Library was completed and officially opened. ?
As of 20 18 and 12, Hangzhou Library has a building area of 50,000 square meters, 3,942 reading seats, 0/6 institutional departments and 186 employees. There are 5.863 million books in the collection, including 32,000 ancient books, 330,000 newspapers and periodicals, and 647,000 audio-visual documents.
Collection resources
By the end of 20 18 and 12, Hangzhou Library had 5.863 million books (pieces). Including 32,000 ancient books, including 4,845 rare books; 330,000 newspapers and periodicals; 647,000 audio-visual materials (sets); E-books 12 12000 volumes. ?
ancient literature
By the end of 20 18 and 12, Hangzhou Library had collected more than 40,000 ancient books of the Republic of China, including 4,845 rare books and 400 rubbings12. There are 29 kinds of precious ancient books in the collection that entered the first batch of national precious ancient books list.
By the end of 2022, 42 ancient books in Hangzhou Library were selected into the National List of Precious Ancient Books and 38 were selected into the List of Precious Ancient Books in Zhejiang Province.
Local literature
By the end of 20 18 and 12, Hangzhou Library had collected nearly 10,000 local documents in the form of books, ancient books, periodicals, newspapers, rubbings and CDs, covering all aspects of Hangzhou's development. Edit and publish Wen Lan, a cultural periodical in Hangzhou, to provide reference service for Hangzhou's economic and cultural development.
Digital resources
As of 20 18 and 12, Hangzhou Library has 103 digital resource databases, including superstar periodicals, Wanfang data knowledge service platform (package library), Chinese online digital library, superstar reading show and China poetry database. Among them, the characteristic database 10 and the open resource database 15. ?
Support guarantee
By the end of 20 18 and 12, Hangzhou Library has built a leading domestic automated service system, which has realized the services of bibliographic joint retrieval, centralized cataloging of documents, universal library card, sharing of software and hardware platforms, and borrowing and returning of documents and digital resources. The library is fully covered by wireless network, equipped with touch screen reading system and 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 reservation, telephone renewal, online renewal, wap website renewal, SMS renewal, 24-hour self-service library and so on. ?