nanjing library

Nanjing Library, referred to as Nantu for short, is the third largest library in China, the fourth largest library in Asia, a national first-class library, the first batch of national key protection units of ancient books, and also a document resource guarantee center in Jiangsu Province. Nanjing Library, formerly known as Jiangnan Library, was founded in 1907. This is the first public library in China. 1927 changed to the library of Chinese studies of National Central University. 1933, the National Government established the National Central Library. 1952, the National Studies Library and the former Central Library merged into the present Nanjing Library.

National Library of China:

1September 9, 909 (July 25, the first year of Qing dynasty), the Qing government approved the invitation of Zhang Zhidong, Minister of Military Aircraft and Senior Minister of the Department, to build a library (the predecessor of the National Library), and allocated the collections of the Cabinet Treasury, the Hanlin Academy and imperial academy, with the concert hall (2 volumes), The Complete Book of Sikuquan in Wenjinge and The Suicide Book in Dunhuang as the basic collections. At present, the National Library of China is divided into the south library of the main library, the north library of the main library and the ancient books library, with a collection of 3 1 19000 volumes, including more than 2 million rare books of ancient books. With a building area of 280,000 square meters in 2008, the National Library of China is the largest in Asia and the third largest in the world (the third largest in the world after the Library of Congress and the Moscow Library).

Shanghai Library:

Shanghai Library is a research-oriented public library, which was built in July 1952. The original site was located at No.325 Nanjing West Road, and then moved to Huaihai Middle Road 1555. 1996 65438+On February 20th, the new Shanghai Library officially opened to the public, becoming a large comprehensive research-oriented public library, ranking among the top ten libraries in China and the second in China.