Shanghai Library is a modern multi-functional large-scale public library with a building area of 83,000 square meters. The library has a total collection of 6.5438+0.32 million volumes, with 38 reading rooms, 24 research reading rooms, 8 audio-visual materials research rooms and 3,036 reading room seats. There are also 842-seat lecture hall, 500-square-meter exhibition hall, 300-seat multi-function hall and 320-seat academic activity room, equipped with mobile multi-channel simultaneous translation equipment, which can serve international academic exchange activities. Shanghai Library is one of Shanghai's top ten landmark cultural buildings, a research and education center and a comprehensive information hub. The new Shanghai Library covers an area of 3 1 hectare with a building area of 83,000 square meters. It was opened to the public on February 20th, 1996. The new building absorbs the characteristics of modern Shanghai architecture and embodies the image of combining grandeur, simplicity, elegance and rationality. Its main building consists of two tower-shaped high-rise buildings with the tower heights of 58.8m and 106.9m respectively and a five-story podium. Both the east and the west are multi-dimensional ladder blocks, symbolizing the solid foundation of cultural accumulation and the continuous rise of human knowledge. The new library has broken through the traditional three divisions of collection, editing and reading, and adopted a flexible and diverse open space pattern, making it compact in layout, clear in streamline and flexible in space. In order to facilitate readers to borrow books, the new library ensures that the new books published in 5-8 years are publicly displayed in the reading room, and has set up 25 reading rooms of various types, patent and standard reading rooms, audio-visual and electronic reading rooms and a large open-shelf lending library for Chinese books. In order to make researchers have a quiet and comfortable research environment, 32 single-person research rooms have been opened. The new library has introduced the latest computer and communication technology in the world, and managed the main business links electronically. For example, in information management, the internationally influential library system management software is directly introduced, and after secondary development, computer management is implemented for interview, cataloging, circulation, continuous publications and public inquiry systems. At the same time, the CD-ROM graphic storage system and various special databases (full-text database of rare ancient books and modern Shanghai picture database) were introduced and developed. ) all set up. The automation management system of the new library is connected with major information networks at home and abroad and has become an important network node information hub in Shanghai. In order to enrich the cultural life of citizens, the new museum has opened various cultural facilities to the public, such as an 872-seat lecture hall, two exhibition halls with a total area of 65,438+0,800 square meters, a 300-seat multi-function hall and three academic activity rooms, and is equipped with mobile multi-channel simultaneous interpretation equipment. In addition, various venues and equipment inside and outside the museum are used according to local conditions to hold cultural exhibitions, popular science, works display, author signing ceremony, painting and calligraphy mounting and demonstration of ancient books restoration. In particular, holding various lectures for the society has achieved good social and economic benefits. 1995 10 In June, Shanghai Library and Institute of Science and Technology Information merged and entered the stage of "prospering the library through science and technology". At present, Shanghai Library has more than 1000 staff, four functional departments 10 business centers10, and more than 40 million books. Shanghai Library is open every day all year round. At present, 300,000 readers' library cards have been issued, receiving 1 1,000 readers a day, ranking first among public libraries at home and abroad. According to the survey, Shanghai Library is the seventh largest library in the world, second only to the national libraries of the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China and Japan.

Opening hours: 8:30 am-8: 30 pm, open all year round.

Address: No.0/555, Huaihai Middle Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai

Postal code: 20003 1

Operator: 02 1-64455555 rpm.

Fax: 02 1-6445500 1

Transportation: Bus: Gaoan Road or Huaihai Middle Road Station, such as 126, 9 1 1, 926, 920, 96, 93, 15, 548; Subway 1 Line Hengshan Road Station

You can go to Fuzhou Road to buy books. Fuzhou Road is a famous book street in Shanghai, and the largest is Shanghai Book City.

Shanghai Book City Headquarters Address: No.465, Fuzhou Road (Fujian Middle Road)