Shenzhen Library is located in the administrative and cultural center of Shenzhen, in front of the beautiful Lotus Hill, with an area of 296 12 square meters and a total construction area of 49,589 square meters. It has 2,000 reading seats and 3,000 network nodes, and can receive 8,000 readers every day.

As a document collection and utilization center and a document information resource development center in Shenzhen, the whole library has more than two million books and periodicals, and nearly one million electronic and online documents. According to the development of Shenzhen's economy, society and culture, Shenzhen Library takes high-tech, commerce, fashion, law, Shenzhen local literature, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao literature, foreign books and periodicals as characteristic resources in the collection construction.

It is open continuously at 9:00-2 1:00 every day except Monday, and it is open to the public for 72 hours every week. In terms of service methods, the implementation of "all-round opening, card-free access, hierarchical management, one-card service" is open to all citizens, and all general services are free.

Shenzhen Library insists on service innovation, constantly expands service items and innovates service features. In addition to general literature reading and borrowing services, it provides readers with various forms of remote services and network services, such as personal online digital library system, mobile phone short message service system, online reference service and document original text delivery service. At the same time, actively carry out extended services outside the library, build the "lending and returning" system of the city's libraries and the "24-hour self-service library system of city blocks", and create a library service environment that is not limited by time and space, anytime and anywhere.

Shenzhen Library takes citizens' lifelong education as its responsibility, organizes and undertakes various reader activities, promotes reading, and creates a good atmosphere for all people to learn. At the same time, it is committed to strengthening the information reference function and providing high-level knowledge support and information services for Shenzhen's government decision-making, economic development, scientific and technological innovation, academic research and other activities.