1953 —— Library of Zhengzhou Electric Power Industry School
1958 —— Library of Henan Electric Power Institute
Early 1960s —— Zhengzhou Electric Power School Library
1994 —— Zhengzhou electric power college library
The condition of the building
The new building was completed and put into use on 1996, with a construction area of about 6,000 square meters and a four-storey building. Adjacent to the Chenghuang Temple on the left, with its back to the greenhouse, birds and flowers are fragrant. There are two stacks in the library: comprehensive stack and literature stack. There are six reading rooms, including book reading room, newspaper reading room, periodical reading room, teacher reference room, electronic reading room and general reading room, with more than 1000 reading seats.
Collection resources
The library has more than 300,000 books, more than 600 Chinese and foreign periodicals, more than 80 newspapers and more than 20 foreign materials. It has formed a collection system focusing on power generation and power supply technology, thermal power generation, automation, computer, economic management and foreign languages, covering all majors in our school. Among them, the literature collection system on thermal power engineering and power generation and power supply technology is comprehensive, which is the collection feature of our library. In addition, digital resource databases of Chinese and foreign periodicals, conference papers, scientific and technological achievements and enterprise information were purchased from Tsinghua Tongfang, Chongqing Weipu and Wuhan Wanfang Company, and the mirror station of China academic periodicals, namely the secondary station of CNKI HowNet service station, was established.
Automatic management
During the period of 1996, the school invested in the establishment of XULIS book comprehensive management system, and all books were brought into computer management, making this library an early library in Henan Province to realize comprehensive computer management from acquisition, cataloging to circulation. In 2000, an information retrieval management system and an electronic reading room connected with the campus network were built, so that readers can share resources by using modern technology. In March, 20001year, it was awarded "Advanced Unit of Modern Technology Application in University Libraries of Henan Province" by the Henan Provincial Library Working Committee. In June, 2003, the automation management system was updated to GDLIS XP library integrated system based on WINDOWS operating platform, which greatly improved the quality and service level of automation.
Composition of department personnel
The library has four departments, namely, editing department, circulation department, reading department and technology department, with full-time staff 17, including 6 with bachelor degree 10, 6 with junior college degree and 2 with technical secondary school education or below. Librarians have 2 senior titles, 8 intermediate titles and 3 junior titles.
After more than 70 years' development, the library of Zhengzhou University of Electric Power has become a modern engineering university library which is deeply loved by teachers and students, rich in books, standardized in management, advanced in equipment and excellent in service.