In 2020, according to the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, our library will strictly implement the appointment procedure. According to the requirements of provincial and municipal libraries, the appointment of Chang 'an District Library will be cancelled from May 28th (Friday). Readers will continue to scan the code for temperature measurement, and the whole library will wear masks to ensure personal safety during reading and studying in the library.

At the same time, the closing time in the afternoon was adjusted to 17: 50, and 18 officially closed. Readers who can't return it in time during the opening hours, please operate it on the outdoor self-service borrowing machine at the entrance of the cultural center. The self-service borrowing machine is used from 7: 50 am to 22: 00 pm.

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A library is an institution that collects, sorts out and collects books and materials for people to read and refer to. As early as 3000 BC, libraries appeared. It has the functions of preserving human cultural heritage, developing information resources and participating in social education. Another function is to collect resources that people are unwilling to buy (or unable to buy) and provide them as collections for the public to use or consult. It can be a public organization, a government agency or a private organization [1].

Library is the external storage and selective transmission mechanism of social memory (usually expressed in written records). In other words, the library is the memory device and diffusion device of social knowledge, information and culture. [2]

As early as 3000 BC, there were various records carved on clay tablets in the temples of Babylon. The earliest libraries were the Greek Temple Library and the Affiliated Library of the Greek Philosophy Institute (4th century BC).

The earliest library-Ashgabat Library

According to the excavation results of archaeologists, we know that the earliest library in the world is also in Mesopotamia. The world-famous library is Ashgabat. This is the best preserved, largest and most complete library of ancient civilization sites excavated today. It was 400 years earlier than the famous Alexandria Library in Egypt, and because of the particularity of mud-printed books, it was not destroyed by the war like Alexandria Library, and most of them were preserved.

Libraries in China have a long history. It's just that at first we didn't call it a library, a mansion, a pavilion, a view, a stage, a temple, a courtyard, a hall, a study and a building. For example, Mengfu in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Shiqu Pavilion in the Han Dynasty, Dongguan, Lantai and Guanwen Temple in the Sui Dynasty, Chongwen Academy in the Song Dynasty, Lianshengtang in the Ming Dynasty, and Qige Pavilion in the Four Ku Quanshu in the Qing Dynasty. "Library" is a foreign word, which was introduced into China from Japan at the end of 19.