Monday, June 5438+ 10 1 2024 is a legal holiday, and the library will be closed for one day. At other times, the lending office, reading room and public space of the library will be open normally.

A library is an institution that collects, sorts out and collects books and materials for people to read and refer to. As early as 3000 BC, libraries appeared. Library has the functions of preserving human cultural heritage, developing information resources and participating in social education. The word library is a foreign word, which was introduced into China from Japan at the end of 19. Hubei Library, founded in 1904, is the first modern library in China.

Library is the external storage and selective transmission mechanism of social memory (usually written information). In other words, the library is the memory device and diffusion device of social knowledge, information and culture.

History of library development

As early as 3000 BC, there were various records carved on clay tablets in the temples of Babylon. The earliest collection sites were the collection sites of Greek temples and the collection sites attached to the Greek Philosophy Institute (4th century BC).

The earliest library-According to the excavation results of archaeologists, it is known that the earliest library in the world is Nineveh Library in Mesopotamia Plain (founded by Assyrian King Assubaniba, so it is also called Assubaniba Library), which is the most complete, largest and complete library among the ancient civilization sites that have been excavated today.

It was more than 400 years earlier than the famous Alexandria Library (the largest library in ancient times) in Egypt, and because of the particularity of mud-printed books, it was not destroyed by the war like Alexandria Library, and most of them were preserved.