Zhongshan Library, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province is located in Zhong Xing Road, Zhongshan City. Its predecessor was Sun Yat-sen Memorial Library, which was established in 1935. The new library was completed on 1988 and opened to readers on 199 1 1. The main building is three stories high, and the library in the back seat is four stories high. The building plane is in the shape of "sun", and the building area is 9 144 square meters.
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1. The whole building adopts garden design and the environment is elegant. Since 1998 was rated as a national second-class library, Zhongshan Library has followed the development trend of librarianship and information age, and embarked on a pioneering, innovative and enterprising road towards the goal of a national first-class library.
2. The library has 45 cadres and workers, 3 curators, 3 senior titles, 6 intermediate titles, 23 junior titles and 29 college graduates. It consists of five departments: office, editing department, lending department, information technology department and counseling education department, and has six first-line service windows: lending room, newspaper reading room, periodical reading room, multimedia reading room, reference book reading room and children reading room. The stacks have a total area of 2,220 square meters and 585 reading seats.
3.200 1 up to 2003, the higher authorities allocated funds to carry out the three-phase project transformation and overall VI image design of the library, standardized the logo, unified the "orientation", expanded the stacks, installed air conditioning, increased the reading area, improved the borrowing environment, and realized the modern service mode of borrowing, reading and collecting. A comfortable and pleasant library becomes a "knowledge home" for readers.
4. From 1998 to 2003, the annual special fund for books was more than 760,000 yuan. The number of documents is increasing year by year, and the types of documents are increasingly rich. There are more than 460,000 books, including 4 1 10,000 books, 40,000 bound newspapers and periodicals, Sun Yat-sen's literature, local literature, books donated by overseas Chinese 1 10,000 books, and 6,000 kinds of electronic literature and audio-visual materials 1 10,000 pieces.
5. "People-oriented" is the eternal melody of library service. In recent years, Sun Yat-sen Library in Sun Yat-sen City, starting from readers, has a maximum opening time of 77 hours per week and is not closed on holidays. Massive literature and excellent service attract more and more readers to enter the library to find spiritual food. From 1998 to 2003, about 4 million people visited the library, about 1220000 books were borrowed, and about 1230000 people circulated.
6. "Reading navigation" is an important subject of library service. From 1998 to 2003, we introduced more than 4,000 new books and periodicals through bulletin boards, new book windows, online publicity and radio columns.
7. "Going out of the library gate" is an extension of library service. In recent years, Zhongshan Library of Zhongshan City has continuously expanded its service field, delivering books to the door and to the countryside, and extending its library services to military camps, towns and enterprises. At present, there are 19 service points outside the library, such as "Zhongshan Branch Mobile Library Station of Armed Police". Send a batch of excellent books to service points regularly, and create a good atmosphere for reading and reading good books in military camps, towns and enterprises. Building a learning city with practical actions.
8. "Dedicating love and common development" is the purpose of Zhongshan Library in supporting poor mountainous areas, supporting township libraries and serving vulnerable groups. In the past few years, we have donated more than 65,438+00,000 books and launched a series of preferential measures to serve the disadvantaged groups.