192 1 year, the new geological library was completed at No.9, Beijing Military Division, and the geological library has an independent building since then. This is an important event in the history of geological libraries and the development history of modern geological undertakings in China. In order to build the library building, Ding Wenjiang, the president of the Geological Exploration Institute, and Zhang, Weng and others launched a fund-raising campaign, and * * * raised a total donation of more than 39,000 yuan. Li, then principal, donated 654.38 million yuan. The library building is designed and built by the German company Lei Hu, with a two-story structure. At that time, the geological library had more than 4,000 books, which already had a relatively perfect basic function of book service. Known as the first geological library in East Asia. At that time, the geological library located in the ninth army division was not only a place to collect books, but also a place where many important meetings were held.
1922 In February, the inaugural meeting of geological society of china was held in the new building of the Geological Library, which was a milestone in the history of geological development in China. The president is Zhang, and the vice presidents are Weng (the first Ph.D. in geology in China, who received his Ph.D. in Belgium 19 12, and once served as the Executive Dean of the Republic of China and the Secretary-General of the Presidential Office) and Li Siguang (who returned from Britain,1889-197/KLOC). Geological society of china's Journal of geological society of china and Geological Report of Geological Survey are published by the Geological Library for foreign exchange. 1927 China Mining and Metallurgy Engineering Society was also established in the Geological Library of the Ninth Army Division.
1935, because the Geological Survey moved to Nanjing, most of the books and periodicals in the library were transported to Nanjing. Since then, the geological library has entered a turbulent period. After the July 7th Incident, the library moved to Changsha, then to Chongqing, and 1946 moved back to Nanjing. After several relocations and vicissitudes, the library has been growing. By June, 1949, the geological library had more than120,000 volumes. 1950, the library of Geological Survey was renamed as "China Geological Work Plan Steering Committee Library", with the main library located in Nanjing and the ninth library of Beijing Military Division as a branch library.
1952, the Geological Department of the Central People's Government was established, and the library was renamed as "Library of the Geological Department of the Central People's Government". The museum is located in Kang, outside Andingmen, Beijing. The former Nanjing Museum is a branch.
During the period of 1955, all the books of Nanjing Pavilion were shipped to Beijing one after another, and the shortage of buildings became an urgent problem to be solved.
In April, 1956, Premier Zhou Enlai approved the establishment of the National Geological Library and built a new library building.
1958165438+1October, the new National Geological Library was completed in ganjiakou. Since then, the Geological Library has become a national large-scale professional library open to the whole society.
1996, the 30th international geological congress was held in Beijing, and a large modern library building was built at No.29 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, with a building area of 13000 square meters. Up to now, the Geological Library has collected nearly 700,000 books and more than 0/000 sets of various geological maps/kloc-,making it the largest geoscience professional library in Asia.
In 2000, the National Geological Library was renamed China Geological Library.