Hunan Library is a provincial-level comprehensive public library organized by the state, and it is also the first provincial-level public library named after "Library" in China.

Hunan Library was established in March, 1904. It is funded by Liang Huankui and others, and founded by Hunan Governor Zhao Erxun. 19 12 Hunan Library was renamed as "Provincial Hunan Library". 1In July, 984, Hunan Provincial Organizing Committee issued a document agreeing that Hunan Provincial Library should be renamed Hunan Library.

The main building of Hunan Library covers an area of 23,000 square meters, and the training building covers an area of 6,700 square meters, with a collection of more than 4.5 million books (pieces), including more than 3.08 million books (pieces), more than 800,000 ancient books (pieces), more than 550,000 newspapers (pieces) and more than 200,000 audio-visual and microfilmed books. There are more than 3.3 million kinds of e-books. 1570 more reading seats.

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1984, Hunan Library, located in Shaoshan North Road, Changsha, was completed and opened, with a construction area of 23,000 square meters. In 2004, a comprehensive service building of 9,000 square meters was built on the original basis, and Hunan Library became the largest provincial public library in China at that time.

2065438+On February 28th, 2007, the foundation stone was laid for Meixi Library of Hunan Library. In the future, a new library of about 80,000 square meters will be built in Meixi New Town, Changsha.

With the expansion of library area, the business efficiency of Hunan library is also improving year by year.

The number of staff in Hunan Library increased from 93 in 1977 to 270 in 20 17. The physical collection increased from more than 265,438+10,000 copies in 1978 to more than 4.7 million copies in 20 17; The virtual collection starts from 1994 to 20 18, reaching more than 250 TB. The number of borrowers and books borrowed increased from 230,000 and 270,000 in 1978 to more than 400,000 and193,000 in 20 17, respectively.

Readers' activities have been carried out sporadically in the early days of reform and opening up to more than 200 lectures, more than 240 social education training courses and more than 330 reading promotion activities in 20 17 years. The number of scientific research papers ranges from a few to more than 50, and the number of academic works reaches 4.

Over the past 40 years, Hunan Library has successively won more than 70 honorary titles, such as national advanced collective of cultural system, national civilized library, national first-class library, provincial civilized unit, provincial advanced collective of cultural work, provincial excellent base for popularizing social sciences, provincial advanced collective of "three innovations and one struggle" and "window of mass satisfaction" for serving the people.

At present, Hunan Library has become one of the public cultural service institutions in Hunan Province, providing more than 3 million public cultural services, which has high social benefits.

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