Shanghai Library, located in Huaihai Middle Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, is a comprehensive research-oriented public library and industry information center in Shanghai, the Shanghai Branch of the National Cultural Information Resource Sharing Project, the public cultural research base of the Ministry of Culture, and the first batch of national key ancient books protection units.
Shanghai Library was founded in 1952, Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology Information was founded in 1958, Shanghai Library and Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology Information merged in 1995, and the new Shanghai Library was officially opened to the public in1996+February.
Shanghai Library has a building area of 1.27 million square meters, 36 reading rooms of various types, 24 institutional departments and 75 employees1person. There are more than 55 million volumes (pieces) of Chinese and foreign literature in the collection, including about 6,543.8+0.7 million kinds of ancient books in China, and 25,000 rare books with 6,543.8+0.7 million kinds, belonging to 2,256 kinds of national first-class and second-class collections, 13526 volumes.
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Shanghai Library was established in 1952 and Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology Information was established in 1958. 1995 Shanghai Library merged with Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology Information to become a comprehensive research-oriented public library and industry information center.
Shanghai Library (Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology Information) is a national cultural research base of the Postdoctoral Research Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Shanghai Branch of the National Cultural Information Resource Sharing Project, Shanghai Ancient Books Protection Center, Shanghai Central Library General Library, Shanghai Soft Science Research Base "Frontier Science and Technology Development Research Center" and Shanghai Cultural and Creative Industry Information Center.
There are more than 56 million volumes (pieces) of Chinese and foreign documents, among which rare books of ancient books, rubbings, manuscripts of celebrities, genealogies, rare books of western languages, music scores of records, modern newspapers and periodicals, and patent standards are particularly distinctive. The total construction area of existing buildings is 6,543,800+270,000 square meters.
Shanghai Library takes the lead in launching new reading experience reading rooms, "creating new space" and other special reading rooms, providing short message service, mobile phone library, e-book reader borrowing and other services, promoting the "citizen digital reading promotion plan" and providing cross-platform digital reading services. Introduce digital humanistic services based on associated open data to realize the openness and interconnection of data on the Internet.
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