Closed at 10 pm from Monday to Thursday, 4 pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The library of Northwest Normal University is only open on weekdays. The specific opening hours are: Monday to Thursday from 8 am to 8 pm 10 pm, Friday from 8 am to 4 pm, and Saturday and Sunday are legal holidays. Northwest Normal University is located in Lanzhou, an important town of the Silk Road. It was jointly built by the people of China, the Ministry of Education and the Gansu Provincial People's Government. It is a provincial university among the first-class universities in China and one of the 14 universities in the western region supported by the state.