On May 1959, Huaiyin Library (the municipal library under its jurisdiction) was completed and opened, with 5 bungalows and nearly 20,000 books, with 4 people, the first director Zhou Jianming;

1April, 962, a library building of 689 square meters (No.44 Huancheng West Road) was built;

1964165438+10 was renamed as "Qingjiang Library";

1968 Qingjiang library, Qingjiang museum and Qingjiang cultural center merged into Qingjiang Mao Zedong Thought propaganda hall;

1974 Restoration of Qingjiang Library

1March, 983, after the merger of cities and prefectures, it was renamed as "Huaiyin Library" (provincial city library);

1May, 1983, a library building of 1260 square meters was built (Renmin South Road 102);

1 1 in 1984, the "evaluation activity of creating a civilized library" was carried out in the city/county public libraries, which was affirmed by the provincial offices and forwarded to the cultural bureaus and libraries of all cities and counties in the province.

1985 was recommended by the ministries and agencies to participate in the national library work conference exchange;

1987, the municipal government allocated a special fund of 45,000 yuan for the purchase of Sikuquanshu;

1992 Ms. Ge, widow of Mr. Huai 'an, a compatriot who traveled to Taiwan, inherited Mr. Li's wishes and donated 250,000 US dollars to build the "library". 1992 foundation laying, 1993 completion, area1800m2; .

1 server, 5 computer terminals and 1 486 computers were added in 1997, and the computer management of book circulation, cataloging, periodicals and information work was realized by using ILAS system of Shenzhen Library.

In May 2000, Huaiyin Children's Library was established.

In March of 20001year, Huaiyin Library was renamed Huai 'an Library;

200 1, 1 1 Participated in the "Jiangsu Provincial Public Library Computer Business Knowledge Competition" organized by the Provincial Department of Culture, and won the third prize.

In June, 2002, we cooperated with Huai 'an Government Service Center to build the East Campus Community Branch.

June 5438+October 2002 10, the "Xie Bingyan Gift Room" was built, with more than a thousand books donated by Mr. Xie Bingyan, a famous calligrapher in Huai 'an.

In June 2003, with the support of R&F Real Estate Company, Fuchun Community Sub-branch was established.