With the attention of leaders at all levels of the municipal party Committee and municipal government, the new museum broke ground on June 5438+ 10, 2003, and officially opened on September 28, 2005.

The new Urumqi Library is located at No.67 Nanhu Road, covering an area of nearly 6,000 square meters, with more than 200,000 books and more than 200 kinds of newspapers and periodicals. There are more than 700 reading seats and 100 multimedia computers. At present, the new library consists of administrative office, reader service department, business development department, technology department and book development department. Mainly for Urumqi to carry out newspaper reading, book lending, blind lending, reference services, information retrieval, social training, business consulting, interlibrary loan, academic exchange activities and other special services and library social work. The open management mode is adopted, which is a brand-new library integrating lending and collection, automation equipment and modern management.