As the collection and utilization center of books and documents and the development center of documents and information resources in Shenzhen, the whole library has more than 6.5438+0.8 million books and periodicals, and nearly one million electronic and online documents receive 3 million readers every year. After the completion of the new library, it will continue to play the role of Shenzhen document information center and regional library network center, and build a large modern public library integrating popularization, research and digitalization, reaching the level of domestic first-class libraries and ranking among the world's advanced libraries.
According to the development of Shenzhen's economy, society and culture, the collection construction of Shenzhen Library takes high-tech, commerce, fashion, law, local literature of Shenzhen, literature resources of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao as characteristic resources.
All books and periodicals in the reading area of Shenzhen Library provide open-shelf service. The whole library is divided into six layers of services.
Area, the first floor is the newspaper service area, which mainly reads and borrows Chinese newspapers, and has set up a separate reading room for the visually impaired; The second and third floors are book lending areas, which provide Chinese and foreign book lending services; The fourth floor provides multimedia audio-visual services, electronic reading, information consulting services and network services for the information service area; The fifth floor is a special service area, which is divided into business, law, fashion, ASEAN information center and foreign language newspapers and periodicals area according to the types of special topics, mainly providing special literature reading and consulting services for research readers; The sixth floor is the special collection service area, which provides local literature reading in Shenzhen, literature reading in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, and literature reading in books, microforms and ancient books. As the most basic cultural facility in the city, Shenzhen Library will serve as a knowledge hall for citizens' lifelong education on the one hand, and an important symbol of urban cultural connotation and taste on the other. At the same time, we will further strengthen the information reference function, implement the cultural strategy of building Shenzhen into a "library city" and become the network center of the city's libraries.