Please keep quiet in the library area. When entering the room, please put the mobile communication equipment in a mute state. Photography is prohibited in the reading room unless it is approved. So you are not allowed to take pictures, plagiarism is ok.

Business?Hours?

South area of the main building: closed maintenance and renovation will be carried out from 2011May 10.

North area of main building: Monday to Friday 9: 00-2 1: 00 Saturday to Sunday 9: 00- 17: 00.

Children's Hall: Monday to Sunday from 9: 00- 17: 00.

Museum of Ancient Books: Monday to Friday 9: 00- 17: 00.

Instructions for entering the library

The National Library accepts readers over 16 years old (children's library accepts children between 6 and 15 years old); Children accompanied by middle school students and parents can be received on weekends and national holidays; Receive group visits organized by primary and secondary schools throughout the year.

With the ID card, residence booklet, military officer's card, soldier's card, passport, Hong Kong and Macao pass or Taiwan Province compatriots' home visit card, you can apply for the National Library reader card for the first time free of charge, enjoy the basic functions of the reader card, and handle the extended functions according to procedures if other corresponding conditions are met; Children should hold valid ID cards (ID cards, household registration books, passports, Hong Kong and Macao passes, Taiwan compatriots' home visit cards), student ID cards and student ID cards (see the relevant regulations on accreditation for details) to apply for reader ID cards in children's libraries.

Access to reading rooms and service points requires a reader's card from the National Library. China citizens aged 16 can enter the open-shelf reading room with the second-generation ID card, and children can enter the children's library with the reader's card of the Children's Library of the National Library.

Cardholders must abide by the borrowing rules and relevant regulations of the National Library. If the violation is serious, the reader card/second-generation ID card borrowing function will be suspended until it is corrected.

Older readers with discount cards can borrow them first; Disabled readers with disability certificates are exempt from internet browsing fees.

Carry-on bags, drinking water and other items unrelated to borrowing are sent to the bag storage office free of charge with a valid reader card or ID card.

Due to the limited seats, in order to meet the needs of readers, please do not bring personal books (including books borrowed from our library) for self-study in the library.

Pay attention to appearance and dress. Please don't wear sports vest and flip-flops.

Please don't smoke and use naked flames in the museum, and don't bring inflammable and explosive articles into the museum.

Please eat and drink at the designated place, and don't bring food or liquid articles into the library.

Please don't entertain or engage in transactions unrelated to reading books and periodicals in the library.

Please keep quiet in the library area. When entering the room, please put the mobile communication equipment in a mute state. Photography is prohibited in the reading room unless it is approved.

Please consciously abide by the public order and the management regulations of the National Library, and obey the staff management.