1. If you take the subway, the 10 line can reach the Shanghai Library, and there is a Shanghai Library Station. Get out of the car.

2. Shanghai Library is the largest and best library in Shanghai, with branches in all districts and counties in Shanghai. On February 20th, 1996, 1996, the new Shanghai Library officially opened to the public, becoming a large comprehensive research public library, ranking among the top ten libraries in the world. Shanghai Library has a well-equipped reading room, research room, exhibition hall, lecture hall, academic conference room, music appreciation room and film viewing room, providing readers with a spacious and comfortable learning environment. In the whole year, it received 1.9 million readers, and about 1.8 million books were in circulation. The collection of documents reached 50.95 million volumes (pieces), with historical documents being the most distinctive, including 6.5438+0.7 million volumes (pieces) of ancient books, 6.5438+0.5 million pieces of steles and about 6.5438+0.00 million pieces of celebrity notes. Ancient books include more than 25,000 kinds of rare books, with 6.5438+0.7 million copies, including more than 300 kinds of engraved books in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and more than 224 kinds of ancient books before Tang and Five Dynasties. In terms of special collection, there are about 5,400 kinds of local chronicles, 1.80 million ethnic spectrum (342 surnames), and more than 8,000 kinds of Zhu Juan (including examination papers, township papers and tribute papers) compiled before 1.949. Among these precious collections, there are 700 national first-class cultural relics and 2-class cultural relics 1300. The earliest collection of Vimalakīrti Jing has a history of 1400 years. China Celebrity Manuscript Museum has also collected more than 50,000 letters, diaries, inscriptions, pictures and rare documents of cultural celebrities since the late Qing Dynasty, among which manuscripts of cultural celebrities such as Ba Jin are gradually being digitized.

Anyone can enter the Shanghai Library. For an international metropolis like Shanghai, let alone people from other parts of China and foreigners, how can there be places where only Shanghai locals can enter?

If Shanghai Library can't borrow books, what can it do? And borrowing books is free. You only need an ID card to apply for a library card (but the deposit of the card is 100 yuan). With this card, you can borrow books from the Shanghai Library and all branches in all districts and counties for free, without the 25 yuan fee mentioned above. Unless your card is broken or lost, you need to reissue one 10 yuan.