General situation of the library of Central Academy of Fine Arts
The books in the library are mainly Chinese and foreign art books and periodicals, supplemented by social science books, especially art books and picture books. From pre-liberation art publications to contemporary art books, the variety and quality of collections are second to none in national art colleges. The library pays attention to the quality of books, closely cooperates with the teaching needs and discipline development of the college, and especially pays attention to the construction of new disciplines. In addition to collecting books independently and expanding the sources of books as much as possible, the library also accepts a considerable number of books every year to enrich the collection resources. There are wired stacks and rare stacks in the library, which contain the special collections of our library, including a large number of wired rare books, illustrated books and ancient books, woodblock New Year pictures, posters, comic books, stone rubbings of Han Dynasty, stone rubbings of past dynasties, original rubbings, art publications of the Republic of China and so on. Our library established the strategic goal of developing towards automation and networking earlier. As early as 1997, the library set up a local area network, initially realized office automation, completed the retrospective database of commonly used collection bibliographic data, and took the lead in realizing computer management in cataloging and circulation fields in similar university libraries. With the strong support of higher authorities and college funds, the library has perfect hardware facilities and advanced management methods. In terms of management system, computer database management is implemented in book purchasing, cataloging, circulation and other links. The upgraded version of Melints automatic management system software also adds functions such as borrowing current periodicals, submitting online papers, reference and consultation, and branch libraries in the general library. By clicking on the home page of the library, readers can search for books and use database resources online. Contactless card reader IC card can realize reading, borrowing, surfing the Internet, overdue fines and other functions. In the construction of network resources, the library owns 17 full-text database through purchasing, * * * sharing and self-construction. , including national journals, doctoral dissertations, doctoral dissertations in Hong Kong and Taiwan and other full-text databases. Convenient and fast full-text database search is increasingly becoming a means of academic research. Based on high-quality and multi-variety books, supplemented by a full-text database with large amount of information and fast retrieval speed, the library strives to improve the utilization rate of the collected books through advanced management methods, and has achieved good results.