The reading room is usually quiet, which makes people more focused on swimming in the ocean of knowledge. Reading can well explore one's inherent talent, improve one's lack of knowledge, immerse oneself in the ocean of knowledge and land on the other side of knowledge bit by bit, which is usually deeply fascinating.

Reading room:

The service facilities of the library are special places provided by the library for readers to use library documents. There was no independent reading room in early libraries, and usually only a few reading tables were placed next to or in the middle of bookshelves. The circular reading room of the British Museum Library was opened in 1857, which separated the reading room from the stacks and became the reading room with the largest number of seats and the best equipment in the world at that time.

1904, China Gu Yue library stipulated reading in 60 seats in the central hall downstairs. In fact, it has become a special reading room for readers. There are obvious boundaries between reading rooms and stacks in modern libraries. However, with the change from heavy collection to reuse and the implementation of open-shelf system, it is more and more common to set reading tables in stacks and increase the number of books in reading rooms, and the equipment in reading rooms tends to be practical and comfortable.

Reading rooms in libraries are generally divided into three types: general reading rooms, special reading rooms and reference laboratories. General reading rooms are sometimes called comprehensive reading rooms, which have long opening hours and are easy to use. The school library also has a general reading room, which aims to provide students with a place for self-study. Usually, there are no books or periodicals or only a few newspapers and commonly used reference books.

The special reading room is set up to meet the different needs of specific readers, which is convenient for readers to concentrate on using a certain range of documents and for librarians to study specific readers and specific ranges of documents. Generally, it is set according to knowledge category, reader type, document type and language, such as social science new book reading room, teacher reading room, microfilm reading room and foreign language periodical reading room.

Reference laboratory is a studio specially set up for experts and scholars to carry out scientific research activities, which is generally small in scale. The library concentrates the literature needed by Chen Fang on a subject indoors for their exclusive use during the research period. In addition, some mass organizations and cultural institutions have set up reading rooms for the public to read current affairs newspapers and popular books.

In addition to reading rooms specially designed for students to study by themselves, all kinds of reading rooms have supplementary books. When the open-shelf system is adopted, the layout of reading desks, chairs and bookshelves takes various forms according to the readers and management methods. Centralized reading desks and chairs are located in the middle or one side of the bookshelf, which can accommodate more readers and facilitate management, and are mostly used in ordinary reading rooms.

Decentralized, that is, reading tables and chairs are scattered between bookshelves, which can provide readers with a good reading environment. It is mostly used in special reading rooms and stacks, that is, some reading desks and chairs are placed around the shelves in the stacks, which is characterized by being able to accommodate more auxiliary books and is suitable for the document retrieval room where readers can consult documents in a short time.