After 1949, Shanda Library moved to a new location three times. The library built by 1954 covers an area of 2,500 square meters, and the library built by 1959 covers an area of 5,400 square meters. 1992 library building covers an area of 19349㎡, in which the new building (now business school building) was built in 1995, with an area of16349 ㎡; The six-story library in the North Pavilion covers an area of 3,000 square meters. The new library has 20 main reading rooms with 65,438+0,500 reading seats, a lecture hall with 265,438+00 seats, an electronic reading room and other multifunctional modern service facilities. The library has 20 branches, covering an area of 2,950 square meters. The multifunctional library built on 20 12 covers an area of nearly 30,000 square meters and is the largest multifunctional library in Shanxi province.

The multifunctional library of Shanxi University is a key construction project in Shanxi Province. Construction started on August 24th, 2009, and the main body was capped on August 28th, 20 10. Won the "Yingze Cup" award for the quality of the main project in Taiyuan. The project has a total construction area of 35,038 square meters, a total budget of 239.42 million yuan, 3.2 million books designed and more than 4,000 seats for readers in various reading rooms. The design of multi-functional library continues the overall architectural style of Shanda campus and adopts neoclassical architectural techniques. The overall shape of the building is solemn and elegant, just like a magnificent jade cong in ancient China. It's round and full outside. At the same time, the four-story main structure of the bell tower of the original engineering building of Shanxi University is cleverly embedded in the north side of the entrance of the gate, which fully embodies the profound cultural heritage of Shanxi University's "Sino-Western communication" and has become a beautiful landscape on the campus of Shanxi University. The internal structure of multi-functional library embodies the brand-new concept of wide bay and full shelf. Dense bookshelves and ordinary bookshelves are staggered in an orderly way, which integrates five functions: storage, borrowing, reading, inspection and management. All services and business work have been automated and networked. After being put into use, it will become a modern multifunctional library with the largest scale in North China, the largest building area and the most advanced facilities in Shanxi Province, and a knowledge hall for teachers and students of Shanxi University to pursue truth and climb the scientific peak.