Collection Resources of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Library

The library closely combines the needs of discipline construction and scientific research in the construction of literature resources, and has now built a comprehensive collection system with Chinese medicine as the main part and science, management, literature, agriculture and teaching as the auxiliary parts. The library has vigorously carried out digital construction, established a digital library system and opened a mobile library, realizing the transformation from a traditional library to a modern library. The library has more than 30,000 paper books 1.3, including 2789 ancient books, 2720 rare books, 46 special books and 674 Chinese periodicals1. There are 0/8 kinds of foreign periodicals, more than 2.4 million electronic books and 28 databases.

By perfecting service institutions, extending opening hours, improving service conditions, increasing service items, adjusting resource allocation and strengthening collection publicity, the library has continuously improved its service level and resource utilization. At present, the whole museum is open 98 hours a week, and the homepage of the website serves 24 hours. The ubiquitous service, one-stop retrieval service, seamless link between paper resources and electronic resources, active push service and subject knowledge service have been realized, and the characteristic subject resources have been accumulated around the subject connotation, and the special database and the characteristic database of traditional Chinese medicine have been established; Facing the health decision-making needs of experts in various departments and relevant units outside the school, the self-published publications "Courier of Chinese Medicine Science and Education" and "Guide to Medical Information" provide strong information support for teaching and research in the school.

In line with the professional characteristics of our school, our school library has the richest collection of Chinese medicine literature, which can be consulted by major Chinese medicine books and periodicals at all times and at home and abroad. With the increasing demand for electronic information, we have successively purchased China Medical Literature Database, China Biomedical Literature CD-ROM Database, China Academic Journal CD-ROM Database and China Patent Database, which greatly improved the research and service level of literature information. While providing good service, our library also actively carries out external information exchange. In addition to maintaining close contact with hundreds of Chinese medicine research institutions in China, it has also established a fixed information exchange relationship with relevant medical institutions in the United States, Japan, Germany, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong and other countries and regions.