The storage and utilization places of school literature resources are composed of the old campus library, the university town campus library, the reference rooms of various colleges and branch libraries (libraries). It covers an area of 4625 1 m2 and has 4529 reading seats.
In order to meet the needs of undergraduate teaching to the greatest extent, in recent three years, the school has invested14.64 million yuan to speed up the construction of library literature resources, so as to alleviate the contradiction between the expansion of student scale and the demand for literature resources. The number of paper documents in the library reached 210.5 million, and the construction of digital resources was fully started. At present, 8 Chinese and foreign language databases 1.8, e-books 1.97 million, and 9 self-built subject characteristic databases have been purchased, which has well guaranteed the literature demand for teaching and scientific research.
The library of Chongqing Normal University has perfect network and first-class hardware facilities. There are 15 network servers and 476 PCs, which realize the 1000m backbone network based on optical fiber and the1000 m LAN to the desktop. The storage network capacity of SAN architecture is 35TB. The construction and layout of the new library in the campus of the university town always runs through the people-oriented concept, with perfect hardware and software facilities, equipped with access control system, service command system, graphic information production and publishing system, etc. To ensure more effective management and service of the library.
While constantly enriching resources, innovating management and upgrading traditional services, the library of Chongqing Normal University has tapped its potential and expanded deep-seated services, such as: realizing the "lending and returning" service between the campus of the university town and the old campus to meet the readers' demand for literature information in different places; Carry out various forms of information consulting services to solve various problems encountered by teachers and students in the use of information; Carry out freshman training, independently undertake the teaching of literature retrieval and utilization for all undergraduates, and cultivate students' information literacy; Adhere to the broadcast of the "network lecture hall", and hold the Golden Film Week and Sanchunhu series lectures regularly to broaden students' horizons and improve their humanistic quality.
With the improvement of staff quality, service awareness and software and hardware environment in Chongqing Normal University library, the utilization rate of library literature resources has been improved year by year, and the service effect is good. In recent years, the library receives 6.5438+0.42 million readers and students borrow 6.5438+0.34 million books, including 300,000 books, 6.5438+0.04 million books and 77.6 books.