No.0/98, Shouyi South Road/KLOC, Wuchang District
It is the earliest public library in modern China. 1899, Mary in America? Elizabeth? Wood came to China to visit his brother Robert, who lives in Tanhualin, Wuchang. Easy? Wood, and then stay in Tan Hualin mandarin college to teach basic English. 1903 organized a reading room at Wenhua School in Tanhualin, Wuchang, and carried out various book promotion activities. 19 10, the building was expanded and named Wenhua Public Library, which was affiliated to Yu Wenhua University. Later, it will become the school library of Wenhua Middle School and Wenhua University. The library is open to the public. Teachers and students of the school can borrow books and the public can use them. A roving library is set up, and the selected reading materials are stored in various schools in Wuhan for students to borrow and change regularly. Organize celebrity speeches, develop readers and expand reading guidance. The library has cataloging room, reference room, reading room, newspaper and magazine room, stacks, business books and special library for learning foreign languages in China. According to the investigation of 19 18 in March, there are 6,704 kinds of Chinese books101771and western books. The number of readers in each quarter reaches 7238, and the annual expenditure reaches 3500 yuan. Books are classified according to Dewey decimal classification.
After its completion, Wenhua Public Library has become an open and well-managed public library in Wuhan. 1920 the library department of Wenhua university was established and became the practice library of this major, which was managed by students. It has a positive impact on promoting library work and library science education in China. After 1929, the library became the library of Wuchang Wenhua Library Science College.
In the 1990s, Tan Hualin's former site of Wenhua Public Book Forest in Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine was demolished, and Miss Wood's touching deeds and the famous Wenhua Public Book Forest at home and abroad only remained in the records of modern history.