Shanghai Library, located in Huaihai Middle Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, is a comprehensive research-oriented public library and industry information center in Shanghai. It is also the Shanghai Branch of the National Cultural Information Resource Sharing Project and the public cultural research base of the Ministry of Culture. It is the first batch of national key ancient books protection units.
Collection resources
By the end of 20 15, Shanghai Library had collected more than 56 million Chinese and foreign documents. Among them, there are about 6,543.8+0.7 million ancient books in China, 25,000 rare books and 6,543.8+0.7 million books, which belong to the national first-class and second-class collections, 2,256 Chinese periodicals13,526 books, 8,454 local documents in Shanghai and 2,454 historical pictures in Shanghai.