1823-1834c Rossi and A F· Shedelin designed a new building with two reading rooms for the old building; The increase of readers has raised the voice of opening a new reading room, and 1862 has opened a special building. With the enrichment of the collection, E. Vo Loki Loff designed a larger building at 1896- 190 1, and transferred the former Yekaterinsky Institute building on the bank of Fontanka Canal to the library at 1950. However, the expanded collection, a large number of readers, and scattered collections all need to build new libraries. The new library will be opened at 1986 and 1998. At present, the total construction area is123,000 square meters, including 60,000 square meters of old buildings and 63,000 square meters of new buildings. Reading rooms are generally used by researchers in large libraries, and readers need to provide passports and degree certificates; Get a reader's card and use the reading room for free.

The reading room of the Department of Printed Music and Recording is used by registered readers of the Russian National Library, and young people under 16 have other reading rooms elsewhere. The books in the reading and listening department can only be collected in the reading room, and the use of ancient and rare materials is restricted. As reference library staff provide necessary assistance, only professional groups can make electrostatic, remake or microform copies of printed music scores and transcribe recorded materials, and all copying services are charged.

The newspaper reading room, with 45 seats, is open to users who hold the reader card of the Russian National Library every day except public holidays and the last Tuesday of each month. Readers in the science reading room can use all the books in the department, while unregistered visitors can only read the latest central and Petersburg newspapers at hand. Some newspapers are in critical condition, but new newspapers will meet the requirements soon. But each reader can only ask for 5 volumes at a time, and no more than 20 volumes a day. Newspapers are not lent out, but only for reading in the reading room. In terms of bibliography, we provide reference services on 5000 topics every year to help readers according to their needs. The editing of subject catalogue is to monitor the central and local newspapers at any time to meet the requirements of different groups. Some reference databases and new publications are services for specific topics. Unbound newspapers in recent 1-2 years can be reproduced in the reading room, and the rest newspapers can be reproduced or microfilmed through the foreign service department of the Russian National Library according to users' requirements.

Besides exhibitions, lectures and conferences, the National Library also holds concerts and meets actors. The "Audiovisual Opera" center performs classical and modern opera fragments. This is announced in the "Speech and Public Activities Plan" published by the Russian National Library every month. The tour guide mainly introduces the history, organization and collection of the museum.

According to the statistics of 200 1, there are 1, 634 reader seats; Reception 1, 40 1, 3 19 person-times; Library experts accepted 365,438+02,900 requests for information services; Held 1, 377 exhibitions and 489 guided tours; Held 203 lectures, reports and meetings; Publish 50 kinds of conference papers; The website of the National Library has been accessed 240 1537 times.

If foreign citizens want to use the library, they need to show their passports, visas, visiting scholars or graduate certificates, two photos and fill in the form. Take the subway to Mayakovski Station (маяковская) and get off.