Shanghai Library is a modern, multi-functional large-scale public library with a construction area of ??83,000 square meters. The library has a total book collection of more than 13.2 million volumes, with 38 reading rooms of various types, 24 research reading rooms, 8 audio-visual materials research rooms, and 3,036 reading room seats. There is also an 842-seat lecture hall, a 500-square-meter exhibition hall, a 300-seat multi-functional hall, and a 320-seat academic activity room. It is also equipped with mobile multi-channel simultaneous interpretation equipment, which can provide support for international academic exchange activities. Serve. The Shanghai Library is one of Shanghai's top ten iconic cultural buildings, Shanghai's scientific research and education center, and one of Shanghai's comprehensive information hubs. The new Shanghai Library covers an area of ??3.1 hectares with a construction area of ??83,000 square meters. It was opened to the public on December 20, 1996. The new building absorbs the characteristics of modern Shanghai architecture and embodies the image of grandeur, simplicity, elegance and rationality. Its main building consists of two tower-shaped high-rise buildings with heights of 58.8 meters and 106.9 meters respectively and a 5-story podium. Both the east and west floors are in the shape of multi-dimensional stepped blocks, symbolizing the solid foundation of cultural accumulation and mankind’s continuous climb to knowledge. The new museum breaks through the previous three traditional divisions of collection, editing and reading, and adopts a flexible and diversified open space layout to achieve a compact layout, clear streamlines, flexible space and adaptability to changes. In order to facilitate readers to borrow, the new library ensures that new books published within 5 to 8 years are publicly displayed in the reading room. It has set up 25 reading rooms of various types, patent and standard reading, audio-visual and electronic reading rooms, as well as a large-scale open shelving of Chinese books. Loan library. In order to provide researchers with a quiet and comfortable research environment, 32 single-person research rooms have also been opened. The new museum has introduced the world's latest computer and communication technology to conduct electronic management of major business links. For example, in terms of information management, internationally influential library system management software is directly introduced. After secondary development, computer management is implemented for acquisition, cataloging, circulation, serial publications and public inquiry systems. At the same time, a CD-ROM image and text storage system was introduced and developed, and various specialized databases were established (full-text database of ancient and rare books, modern Shanghai image data database, etc.). The new museum’s automated management system is connected to major domestic and foreign information networks and has become an important network node information hub in Shanghai. In order to enrich the cultural life of citizens, the new museum opens various cultural facilities to the public, such as a lecture hall with 872 seats, two exhibition halls totaling 1,800 square meters, a multi-functional hall with 300 seats and three academic activity rooms. It is also equipped with mobile multi-channel simultaneous interpretation equipment. In addition, various venues and equipment inside and outside the museum are used according to local conditions to hold activities such as cultural exhibitions, science popularization, work presentations, author signing ceremonies, calligraphy and painting mounting, and ancient book restoration demonstrations. In particular, various lectures are held for the society to achieve good social benefits. and economic benefits. In October 1995, the Shanghai Library and the Institute of Science and Technology Information merged, and then entered the stage of "library development through science and technology". Shanghai Library currently has more than 1,000 staff, 14 functional departments and 10 business centers, and a collection of more than 40 million books and materials. The Shanghai Library is open every day of the year. It has issued 300,000 readers' borrowing cards and receives 10,000 readers every day. It is in a leading position among public libraries at home and abroad. According to the survey, the Shanghai Library ranks as the seventh largest library in the world in terms of library area and document collection, second only to the libraries of the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China, and Japan.
Opening hours: 8:30 am to 8:30 pm, all year round.
Address: No. 1555, Huaihai Middle Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai
Postcode: 200031
Switchboard: 021-64455555 ext.
Fax: 021 -64455001
Transportation: Bus: 126, 911, 926, 920, 96, 93, 15, 548 and other Gaoan Road or Huaihai Middle Road Station; Metro Line 1 Hengshan Road Station
To buy books, you can go to Fuzhou Road, which is the famous book street in Shanghai. The largest one is Shanghai Book City
Shanghai Book City Head Office Address: No. 465 Fuzhou Road (Fujian Middle Road Intersection)