Brief Introduction of Hohai University Library
Hohai University Library was established in September, 1986. It consists of three campus libraries with a total area of about 4 1000 square meters. The library has more than1900,000 paper documents. The whole library has five business departments, namely, the Ministry of Resources Construction, the reader service department, the technical department, the information department and the office. There are seven reading rooms, including teachers' reference books, students' reference books, current periodicals, back periodicals, new books, retrieval rooms and electronic reading rooms, with more than 1000 reading seats. The library has a collection of 6,543,800+9,000 paper documents, including 6,543,800 books in Chinese and foreign languages, 6,543,800 bound volumes of Chinese and foreign periodicals, and more than 2,000 periodicals are now published. The average collection of paper books and documents is about 65, and the average collection of new books per student is about 6.