In recent years, the library cause of Jiangxi Agricultural University has made great progress. The party and government of the school attach great importance to library work, strengthen leadership, enrich professionals, increase book funds and improve library conditions. 1992, a new building with an area of 8,597 square meters was started, and the construction of the new building officially started in September 2007. At the end of 1997, the library of Jiangxi Agricultural University introduced the "Library Automation Integrated System" of Shenzhen Library Langsi Digital Technology Co., Ltd., and established a relatively standardized retrospective bibliographic database with total data exceeding100000, and upgraded its software in 2002. At present, the library's business work has been automated and standardized, and the library's local area network has been connected with CERNET and Internet through the campus network. On this basis, the library has launched online reservation one after another. Because the "library automation integrated system" has scientific query and statistical functions, it provides a good system tool for the scientific management of the library.
In order to meet the needs of digital library development, Jiangxi Agricultural University has successively invested in the construction of an electronic reading room with 66 computers and an audio-visual room with 96 multimedia computers, covering an area of 200 square meters. The electronic reading room mainly provides readers with internet services and the retrieval and utilization of network resources, while the audio-visual room mainly provides readers with English learning software, English movie VCD, CD attached with books, e-books and multimedia software. In addition, the library has its own web page, which is maintained by special personnel.
The school-running goal of Jiangxi Agricultural University is to build a teaching and research-oriented comprehensive university with agriculture as its advantage, biotechnology as its feature and multidisciplinary coordinated development. Focusing on this goal, the library has always focused on the collection of agricultural and biotechnology documents, the collection of key disciplines and postgraduate degree-granting points in schools, the collection of agricultural documents published in Jiangxi Province and local basic materials, and the systematic collection of documents from other disciplines. At present, it has formed a multi-disciplinary and multi-level comprehensiveness with the characteristics of our school and local agriculture. As of July 2007, the total collection of literature has reached more than 6,543.8+0,000 volumes, with 265.438+0 databases, including 654.38+04 databases used in campus network, including more than 8,000 Chinese full-text periodicals, nearly 10,000 foreign periodicals and 290,000 electronic books. In addition, the library also purchased a large number of foreign language learning software, English movies VCD and some expert lectures, and published them on the campus network by using the online information resource publishing system. These resources are the most important information resources in the campus network.
Information education and information service are two important indicators reflecting the level of running a library. The Library of Jiangxi Agricultural University has set up a "Literature Retrieval Teaching Group", and has offered a course of "Literature Retrieval and Utilization" for 24 years, which has played a great role in helping students master the knowledge of literature retrieval, understand agricultural information technology and improve their scientific research ability. In 2002, the library reformed the academic lecture hall and installed a full set of multimedia equipment, which provided a good teaching place for information literacy education. Insisting on providing information services for teachers and students is an important task of the library. In the past three years, the library has provided more than 300 searches for teachers and students of the whole school. Because most of the resources introduced by the library of Jiangxi Agricultural University are published on the campus network, using information resources through the campus network has become an important way for teachers and students of Jiangxi Agricultural University to obtain information. In addition, the library of Jiangxi Agricultural University attaches great importance to interlibrary cooperation with other libraries, and participated in the joint database procurement activities organized by the Working Committee of Jiangxi University Libraries and the document resource sharing activities of the National Agricultural University Library. At the same time, he also participated in the document delivery action of the National Agricultural University Library, and signed a document delivery service agreement with CALIS Agricultural Center, which better met the needs of teachers and students of the school for full-text documents, especially foreign documents.