Year: Modern
Release date:1989 65438+February 65438+February.
The founder of Gu Yue Library is Xu Shulan from Yin Shan. Xu Shulan is an idle doctor of the Ministry of War. Influenced by western culture and reform and reformism, Xu Shulan donated more than 70 thousand private books with the aim of preserving the past and opening up the new, referring to the regulations of the national libraries of the East and the West.
1903, he bought an acre of land in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and spent 32,962 yuan to build this building. 1904 officially opened to people from all walks of life. In terms of management methods, it not only inherits the tradition of feudal libraries, but also absorbs the advanced experience of foreign countries. There is a bibliography of the ancient Yue library, which is divided into five parts: classics, history, books, collections and current affairs, and compiled into 35 volumes; Later, it was divided into academic departments and political departments and adapted into 20 volumes. Learning and politics are divided into 24 categories, and each category is divided into several subcategories. Most categories follow the old names, but the small categories show the tendency of unified classification in Chinese and foreign academic circles. The appearance of Gu Yue Library marks the transition from private library to public library in China, and also marks the birth of modern library in China.