Dushu Lake Library of Soochow University is the library in the school. Borrowing books requires a library card, and only the faculty and students of the school can enter. Expanding the document information guarantee system in the database not only becomes a strong support for the discipline construction and teaching and scientific research work of the school, but also promotes the construction and development of the document center in southern Jiangsu. As a comprehensive university under the national "2 1 1 Project", the construction and development of Suzhou University Library is constantly advancing and climbing to a new height.
The library of our headquarters is located in the center of the headquarters, with five floors, and the whole building is in the shape of a "mouth". In September 2003, it was rebuilt, expanded and put into use. Up to 20 14, the building area is14500m2.
The library of this department is mainly scientific books and periodicals, with more than 500,000 books and periodicals in English, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, computer and agronomy, 848 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals, and more than 50 large databases. It is the document center in southern Jiangsu.
The east of the whole building is the administrative office area, the south is the business work area, the west is the reader service area, and the north is the stacks. The first floor of the business work area is the document construction department, which is mainly responsible for the document procurement and cataloging of the whole library.
On the second floor, there is an information consulting department, an information retrieval room and an information training classroom, which are responsible for providing readers with various information services, including generation search, citation search, original text transmission, sci-tech novelty retrieval, retrieval training and other services, and there are 80 retrieval terminals.
The third floor is the technical department, which is responsible for the maintenance of network technology and modern equipment in the whole museum; The fourth floor is the digitization department, which is mainly responsible for the digitization of paper documents and the integration of digital resources.
The first floor of the reader service area is the * * * enjoyment hall, which is equipped with the general service desk, academician style gallery, electronic publicity screen, OPAC inquiry area, book lending office, service center, leisure reading room and so on. On the second floor, there is a new book reading room, a library of Suda University and a study room. By 20 14, there were 346 film reading seats.
There are periodical reading rooms and study rooms on the third floor. As of 20 14, there are 296 reading seats. The electronic reading room on the fourth floor (divided into online area and video-on-demand area) has 128 online seats, 64 video-on-demand seats and several wireless internet seats (readers can bring their own network cards and laptops for free wireless internet access).
The fifth floor is the academic lecture hall, which can hold various meetings, reports and academic lectures, with 242 seats.