The library takes it as its responsibility to cultivate the socialist "four new people" and makes full use of the collected documents to organize various forms of mass reading activities. Since the opening of the new library 1986, the library has organized large-scale mass reading activities every year, such as the "Red Scarf Reading and Newspaper Reading Medal" in the 1980s and the "Ten Thousand Teenagers Visiting the Wisdom Palace to Pick Wisdom Fruits" in the 1990s. Especially since 1996, the library has organized a massive "three million reading activities" for three consecutive years, namely, "one million farmers' reading activities", "one million citizens' reading activities" and "one million citizens' book donation activities", recommended excellent books to the society, and organized a series of activities such as reading experience exchange, reading lectures, knowledge contests and essay writing, with millions of people actively participating. Organizing the selection of the first ten bibliophiles, 100 outstanding bibliophiles and 100 scholarly families in Changsha has had a wide and far-reaching influence. 1998 launched "One Million Citizens Donate Books", which raised a total of 350,000 books, with cash of130,000 yuan, which promoted the development of rural libraries. On June 4th, 1998, Xinhua News Agency reported on the extensive mass reading activities in Changsha with the title of "Reading Fever in Changsha, Reading in Star City". As the only representative of the provincial public library system, 65438-0998 participated in the national knowledge engineering experience exchange meeting held by the national knowledge engineering leading group in Nanning, and introduced the experience at the meeting.

Since its establishment, the library has given full play to the role of the central library, strengthened operational guidance to the city's industrial and mining, schools, streets and rural libraries (rooms), trained grass-roots librarians, guided grass-roots libraries (rooms) to carry out various business activities, organized grass-roots libraries (rooms) according to regions or systems, set up collaborative network films, and carried out a number of collaborative activities such as exchange of work experience, joint compilation of bibliographies between libraries, and business research. With the active guidance and promotion of the library, the grass-roots libraries (rooms) in Changsha have made great progress. According to the statistics at the end of 1998, there are more than 2,000 grass-roots libraries (rooms) in the city, with more than 5,000 full-time or part-time managers. The library supports the development of 10,000-volume libraries, 304 science and technology demonstration families and farmers' reading groups 176. The library and its affiliated county libraries jointly compiled the Joint Catalogue of Books Cultivated and Raised by Changsha Public Libraries, the Joint Catalogue of Mao Zedong's Works and the Joint Catalogue of Liu Shaoqi's Works. The library attaches great importance to the staff's professional study and academic theory research, and holds a seminar on academic papers of public libraries in the city every two years, and organizes awards. Since 1994, our library has written 60 academic theoretical articles, of which 25 were exchanged and won prizes at the symposium on academic papers held by provincial societies and municipal public libraries, and nearly 20 were published in professional journals. In the knowledge contest for readers of provincial public libraries organized by the Provincial Department of Culture from 1996, the library won the first prize of the group and the first place of the individual written test. In the selection of two outstanding service achievement awards for civilization construction in provincial public libraries, the library won two first prizes, two second prizes of 1 and two third prizes, ranking first among provincial capital city libraries in China.

Since 1984, the museum 1986 has been awarded the title of "advanced unit for building two civilizations in Changsha", 12 has been awarded as a provincial and municipal civilized health unit, and 1989 has been awarded as an advanced unit for supporting agriculture in the 15th model worker conference in Changsha. 1989, 1992, 1995 and 1998 were rated as provincial civilized libraries for four consecutive years, and were rated as second-class libraries in the second national public library evaluation and grading in 1998.