1956, the library moved to Wudetang (now No.28 Nanjing Road) and was officially completed, becoming the only medical library in Tianjin at that time. The building area is about 2,200 square meters, and there are 60,000 books. There are reading rooms, Chinese periodical showrooms, foreign periodical showrooms, stacks and offices. The Library of Tianjin Medical College was established at the same time 195 1. Because the location of the school was uncertain at that time, I temporarily worked in the library of the former Tianjin General Hospital (now the General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University).
1963, the library moved to the campus of Meteorological Observatory Road and temporarily worked in a stepped classroom.
1966, a special library of 2700 square meters was built, including 800 square meters of stacks and 450 square meters of reading rooms, which was officially put into use in 1970.
198 1 year, the school party Committee adjusted and enriched the library leadership. As a department-level organizational system, the library is directly led by the dean in charge and the curator is responsible. Relevant rules and regulations have been restored and improved, and the funds for books have increased year by year, which has standardized and institutionalized library work. By 1982, there are more than 245,000 books and 34 staff members. Through professional training and professional training, the quality of library professionals has been continuously improved.
From 198 1, entrusted by the Ministry of Health, our hospital began to accept and organize the domestic distribution of medical books donated by the United States to China, which was initiated by Professor Jordan M. Philips M.D, an American obstetrician and gynecologist. By March of 20001year, * * had received 6 1 batches of about 800 tons of original books and periodicals, effectively supplementing the collection, and each batch gave new editions and large volumes of books and periodicals to many domestic distribution centers for free, which was widely praised and won the third prize of Tianjin's best scientific and technological information achievement 1986 to1. In April 2006, 5438+0 Jordan Phillips was awarded the title of honorary citizen of Tianjin. In September 2002, he was awarded the Friendship Award by the State Council.
1984, the school medical reference room was merged into the library, which realized the integrated management of book information. The collaboration network of medical information books in North China was established, and our library was selected as a member of the leading group to be responsible for the collaboration of medical literature in North China. Since 1985, the Ministry of Education issued a notice about offering literature retrieval and utilization courses in colleges and universities, our library has offered elective courses for undergraduates and graduate students every year, and established a literature retrieval teaching and research section in 1987. 1986 The new building was expanded by 2,700 square meters, and the construction area of the embassy reached 5,400 square meters. The library implements comprehensive open-shelf reading, gradually improves the computer retrieval service system, and strengthens information resources services such as interlibrary loan.
1986 10 Mr. Jiangjin, an overseas Chinese living in the United States, donated 100,000 dollars to the school for purchasing medical books and materials, and established the Jiang Xu Yunzhu Book Donation Foundation, which was the first donation accepted by our library since its establishment. After more than 40 years' changes, the library of Tianjin Medical College has made great progress, systematically collecting literature materials from basic medicine to clinical medicine, among which foreign books and periodicals account for a considerable proportion in the collection, forming a collection system with certain characteristics. In order to improve the information service level and quality of the library, the focus of work has gradually shifted to the modernization of the library.
1990 participated in the literature resource network system of the national medical library and was selected as a provincial (city) central library.
1992 bought the MEDLINE database of American Silver Disk Company at the end of 1992, which can provide the CD literature retrieval since 1980.
1994 In June, with the approval of the State Education Commission, Tianjin Medical College and Tianjin Second Medical College merged to form Tianjin Medical University, and the libraries of the two universities were also merged and renamed as Tianjin Medical University Library. The building has a total construction area of 7,900 square meters (including 5,400 square meters in the headquarters and 2,500 square meters in the east campus). Average student 1.69 m2, 660 reading seats, average student14 seats. The two libraries have more than 20 service windows for readers, such as circulation, reading, retrieval, information consultation, photocopying and audio-visual.
65438+1September 1994, China Biomedical CD-ROM Database (CBMEISC) and China Biomedical Floppy Disk Database (CMCC) compiled by Institute of Information, China Academy of Medical Sciences were purchased, and the CD-ROM retrieval of China medical literature was realized.
199665438+February, the library, as one of the construction of school teaching and public service system, passed the pre-examination of 21/engineering department.
1June, 1997, a CD-ROM retrieval LAN was initially established, and a machine-readable database of literature resources in electronic reading rooms and libraries was established.
From 65438 to 0998, the functional departments of the library were adjusted and the heads of various departments were re-employed. The library has eight departments and one room: interview department, cataloging department, circulation reading department, periodical department, information research department, reference department, computer network management department, technical service department and office.
1998, 40 electronic reading rooms were built and put into use, and the whole library realized computer networking.
1999, the library further improved the computer network function. There are 30 electronic reading rooms in the East Campus Library, with an annual reading volume of 45,000 person-times and reading hours of 85,000 hours. Nearly 10000 person-times were trained and nearly 1000 searches were completed, which greatly improved the computer application ability of teachers and students. The electronic reading room of the library won the "Highlight Award" of the Ninth Five-Year Plan Laboratory Construction of the Municipal Education Commission.
In 2000, the library kept the number of publications unchanged for the fourth consecutive year.