Where is Xiamen Library?

Xiamen Library was founded in 19 19. In the early days of its establishment, due to the cold world and several changes, the building was relocated nine times. A group of Xiamen cultural celebrities, such as Zhou Dianxun, Yu Chao and Li Xi, have successively served as curators, doing their best for the management, collection accumulation and business development of the library. 1954 65438+In February, Mr. Zheng, a patriotic businessman, lent a building on Siming North Road to the library for free. 1988 the library moved into the office building of the former municipal government at No.2 Park South Road; 19911February, Mr. Yang Yi Yao, an old reader living in Hong Kong, donated 4.5 million yuan to build a comprehensive library building.

With the service policy of "all-round opening, all-round public service and all-round social enjoyment", the socialized library management concept and the humanized principle of equality, free and convenient service, Xiamen Library has formed an all-round open library management model in terms of building facilities, collection resources, reader work and other elements, providing readers with multi-level, diversified and multi-form services to meet the information needs of readers at all levels to the maximum extent. It is open 365 days a year, providing free services and receiving nearly 10,000 readers every day. The wireless network coverage in the museum is 100%, and it is equipped with touch screen reading system and newspaper reading system, self-service book borrowing machine, self-service copier and self-service scanner. At the same time, it also provides a variety of open service measures, such as book borrowing reservation, telephone renewal, online renewal, wap website renewal, SMS renewal, 24-hour self-service book return, etc., so that readers can obtain literature information more conveniently and freely. Carry out public welfare reading salons, special lectures, weekend movies, story meetings, exhibitions and other forms of reader activities throughout the year; Go deep into communities, schools and enterprises all the year round to carry out library service publicity activities, guide the general public to use the library, and give play to the social education function of the library.

Xiamen Library insists on serving the grassroots all the year round, aiming at realizing the sharing of public literature information resources in the region, and is committed to building a public library joint service network based on modern network communication technology, with Xiamen Library as the center, libraries in all districts as the backbone, and town (street) and village (residential) libraries as nodes. At present, municipal and district libraries have realized universal library card, book lending and returning, document joint cataloging, digital resource sharing and interactive reader activities. 20 10 also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the National Digital Library to achieve "full coverage of the National Digital Library in Xiamen", effectively improving the service capacity of digital resources in Xiamen. In recent years, Xiamen Library has also established 17 branches and 19 off-site circulation points in Gulangyu, Haicang, Xinglin, Guankou, Tongan Industrial Park and Torch (Xiang 'an) Industrial Park, initially forming a public library service network covering the whole city. [ 1]

The service policy of "all-round opening, all-public service and sharing by the whole society" and the service concept of socialized library management have won good social benefits for Xiamen Library. 20 12, borrowing 3.262 million books. The total amount of literature borrowing ranks at the leading level of public libraries at all levels in China, and the per capita amount of literature borrowing in a single library ranks at the forefront of public libraries in China for four consecutive years. It has won the honorary titles of national advanced collective of cultural system, national March 8th Red Flag collective, national civilized women's post, first-class library of Ministry of Culture and civilized unit of Xiamen. It was named as China National Reading Demonstration Base Library Society, Fujian Social Science Popularization Base, Fujian Popular Science Education Base, and the Seventh Civilized Industry Creation Demonstration Window in Fujian Province. It has become a lifelong education knowledge hall for citizens who are integrated into society and close to the people, and a public document information resource protection center in Xiamen.

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Address: No.95, Tiyu Road, Siming District, Xiamen, with zip code of 36 10 12.

Business hours: 8: 30 am-265438+0:00 pm (closed on Friday afternoon due to room service). For more information, see Service Overview.

Bus route:

Culture and Art Center Station (Sports Road): 8, 86, 88, 94 1 (formerly 201);

Culture and Art Center Station (Xianyue Road): 2 (former Mansion 2), 9, 24 and 25 (former 506), 10 112 (former 8 12),/kloc.

Children's borrowing area

Monday to Thursday 12: 00- 18: 30 (closed on Friday)

Branch library loan area

8: 30-20: 00 on Saturday, Sunday, winter and summer vacations (closed on Friday afternoon)

Park branch: