Shijiazhuang Library, formerly known as Shijiazhuang Book Museum, was founded in 1950 and settled in People's Cultural Center in 1954. The original book collection was changed into a library. On July 1958, Shijiazhuang Library was formally established. The museum is located at South Street 13, with only a dozen bungalows of about 400 square meters, four staff members and a collection of more than 65,438+10,000 books. 1968 moved to No. 18, North Street is under construction.
1988, the old building was demolished and expanded into a new building with a construction area of 13896 square meters, which was put into use on 199 1 12. In July, 2005, Li Wenqi and other city leaders visited the city library successively and decided to rebuild and expand the city library. Within the scope of existing land use, the main building of the city library will be upgraded, and the original three-story old stacks will be demolished and rebuilt to form a harmonious and unified whole with the main building, expanding the construction area, increasing the reading function and improving the appearance of the library.
After renovation and expansion, Shijiazhuang Library was put into trial operation in June 5438+ 10, 2008, and officially opened to readers in February 65438+August 65438, with an area of 16 170 square meters, nearly one million books, nearly a thousand reading seats, and a digital resource library, a newspaper reading room and literature. The borrowing room is a large studio with a transparent pattern, which integrates collection, borrowing, reading and surfing the Internet to meet the diverse needs of readers. Realize the transformation from a single and semi-open service model to a multi-functional and all-round open service model, and become a modern symbolic cultural facility and public cultural service institution in the provincial capital. Shijiazhuang Library conscientiously implements the concept of "equality, free of charge and openness", adheres to the working purpose of "serving the people and contributing to society", and aims to build a standardized, standardized and modern library, pioneering and innovating, creating characteristics and constantly developing new service formats. Now it receives 6.5438+0.6 million readers every year, with remarkable social benefits. It was awarded the "Excellent Organization Award for National Reading" by library society of china twice.
Shijiazhuang Library implements the "all-open-shelf, zero-threshold" free service, and now has 15 service windows, such as general service desk, ordinary books, newspapers and magazines, historical documents, digital resources, children's reading, Braille reading, leisure reading, reference service, readers' study room, lecture hall and exhibition hall, and strives to provide readers with rich, convenient and efficient services. Strengthen the application of Internet technology, vigorously promote digital construction, and successively establish digital library, mobile phone library and WeChat public service platform, introduce and install modern equipment such as e-book lending machine, LED large-screen retrieval machine, newspaper reader and point reader, and build a relatively complete digital hardware platform, resource platform and service platform, thus realizing the ubiquity of library services. On 20 14, the whole library installed self-service lending and returning equipment, which realized self-service lending and returning of books. At the same time, a 24-hour self-service library service hall has been established, which provides readers with services such as borrowing, returning books, reading and wireless Internet access 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, achieving a historic breakthrough and innovation in modernization, automation construction and book borrowing service. Vigorously promote the construction of the main and branch library system, and successively build branches in Xinhua, Zhengding, Xinle, Zhaoxian, Pingshan and Gaocheng 15 counties (cities), realizing the sharing of borrowing and resources. With Shijiazhuang Library as the main library and county (city) district libraries as branches, a network service system covering the whole city has basically taken shape.
In addition, actively explore the establishment of a new pattern of diversified services based on lending services, supplemented by public lectures, theme exhibitions, film appreciation, concerts, and cross talk performances. For example, Shitu Lecture Hall has attracted many readers to listen by inviting well-known experts to give lectures on the spot and holding open classes. More than 190 public welfare lectures, art performances, film screenings and reading promotion activities are held every year, with an audience of more than 25,000 people. It has been widely welcomed and praised, and has become a beautiful public cultural service brand in our city, and won many awards such as "Hebei Library Service Innovation Award". Children's activities such as lectures on Chinese studies, English clubs, China picture book stories and reading knowledge contests are held all the year round, especially the Zhao Yan Youth Reading Series held every year, which attracts nearly 30,000 primary and secondary school students in the city and has a wide influence; Activities such as "World Reading Day" and library service publicity week have produced strong repercussions in the society. By organizing various activities, more readers are attracted to enter and use the library and feel the happiness of different reading methods, which has played a positive role in creating a learning city, promoting reading for all, improving the quality of citizens and promoting economic and social development.
20 16 CCTV news broadcast reported that Shijiazhuang library is free to open and serve.