Collection content: There are a considerable number of literature resources, mainly theoretical books and periodicals such as Chinese, history, philosophy, politics, law, economy, management, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, computer, library and information science. The total collection of documents has reached 3.3 million volumes. Every year, 12000 books in Chinese and foreign languages enter Tibet, and more than 5000 newspapers and periodicals are ordered. In the national literature resources survey, the library of Wuhan University has 17 volumes of Marxist philosophy, modern foreign philosophy, international law, administrative management, ideological and political education, producer movement, economics, North American economic research, library science and information science, China ancient literature, history, China ancient history, mathematics, condensed matter physics, space physics and radio physics, chemistry and botany. It ranks first in Hubei Province, and the literature collections of Marxism-Leninism, philosophy, politics and law, economy, language and life sciences rank among the top five in universities in China. The branch library of arts and sciences has strengthened the collection of electronic documents, and has more than 120 kinds of machine-readable documents and databases, so it is a library with more collections of such documents. There are more than 0.5 million original books/kloc-0 in Hong Kong and Taiwan, 200,000 ancient books in the collection, and more than 800 rare books, of which more than 300 are listed in the rare books of Chinese ancient books. In order to meet the teaching, research and study of teachers and students in liberal arts campus, the collection features a comprehensive collection of liberal arts books; Collection system of teaching reference books; Key collection of scientific research books; The complete works of doctoral and master's theses make the collection system systematic, complete and practical, as well as research, academic and learning.
The branch library consists of seven departments: office, reading department, periodical department, circulation department, liberal arts center, special collection department and audio-visual department. Wuhan University Engineering Branch, located in the west of the Engineering Department 1 Teaching Building (the 20th floor of the main teaching building), is a large-scale literature and information center focusing on engineering. With a building area of 9,697 square meters, it has millions of books in Chinese and foreign languages, more than 5,000 kinds of newspapers and periodicals, more than 0/00 kinds of electronic documents and more than 350 kinds of audio-visual materials. According to the discipline and specialty layout of the school, it has formed unique collection characteristics in the professional literature of water conservancy, hydropower, electric power, machinery, energy and power engineering, civil architecture, urban construction and so on.
The engineering branch library adheres to the management philosophy of "people-oriented, scientific management, caring for employees and respecting readers" and the service tenet of "service first and convenience for readers". There are 12 reading rooms and 100 reading seats.
In addition to traditional books and periodicals (paper products), there is also a modern "online electronic information service system", which gradually realizes the digitalization of library documents and the deep connection of various media information sources, and can provide first-class electronic document information services for school teaching and scientific research.
The engineering branch library consists of the circulation reading department and the subject service department. The Information Science Branch of Wuhan University Library is located at the southern foot of Luojia Mountain and is the center of the Information Science Department. Formerly known as the Library of Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, it was founded in September 1956, and the new library was completed in October 19621m2, with a construction area of 635 1 m2. The branch library of information science is one of the relatively complete units in the national surveying and mapping scientific literature collection. It mainly collects Chinese and foreign books, periodicals, conference documents, master's and doctoral dissertations, technical standards and specifications of geodesy, engineering survey, photogrammetry and remote sensing, cartography, geographic information engineering, measuring instruments and manufacturing, computer science, radio electronics, telecommunications technology, printing technology, environmental science and other disciplines, and is included in the list of core journals of surveying and mapping in the Overview of Foreign Science and Technology Core Journals. The earliest published German Investigation magazine in the world has a complete collection since the first issue 1873. By the end of 2006, there were about 490,000 books in Chinese and foreign languages, more than 5,000 kinds of periodicals, and more than 654.38+10,000 topographic maps and remote sensing images of various scales in the Information Science Branch.
Duan Xiaoling, director of the Information Science Branch, has three service departments, namely, circulation reading department, subject service department and office, with 43 staff members.
Our service commitment is: "readers have one percent demand, and we will make 100 percent efforts". The Medical Branch of Wuhan University Library is located in the campus of Wuhan University Medical Center, covering an area of 5,000 square meters. It mainly collects literature on basic medicine, medical virology, neuropsychiatry, family planning, nursing, medical management, cardiovascular surgery, microsurgery, radiotherapy, oncology, stomatology and other disciplines. By the end of 2009, there were about 200,000 books in Chinese and foreign languages in medical branches, and more than 3,000 kinds of newspapers and periodicals were collected.
The medical branch library consists of four departments: circulation department, reading department, subject service department and branch library. The expansion project of Wuhan University Library (General Library) is located at the west foot of Luojiashan, northeast of Luojiashan Square, and in the central area of the main campus of Wuhan University. The library (main library) expansion project has a total land area of about 23,000 square meters and a total construction area of 35,548 square meters. Among them, the above-ground building area is 3 1.276 square meters, the basement building area is 4272 square meters, the floor area ratio is 1.36, the building density is 29%, and the greening rate is 37%. The structural form is cast-in-place frame structure and independent column foundation. There are 82 indoor and outdoor motor vehicle parking spaces and 800 outdoor bicycle parking spaces. The expansion project of the new building (main building) started at the end of 2008, and it is expected to be completed and put into use by the end of 20 10. Combined with the existing library area, it will be the largest quadrangle library in colleges and universities in China.
201111On October 28th, the new museum was officially opened to the public. The first-phase opening area of the new library (main library) is the library hall, the book lending area of Building A, the electronic reading room and the lending area * * * with more than 1600 reading seats, and more than 500,000 books can be borrowed by readers. The new library is experimenting with the open mode of collecting, borrowing and reading, and readers can take their schoolbags into the "book lending area" in the picture.
The expansion project of the library (main library) follows the design idea of combining the old with the new. The architecture is beautiful, which embodies the design characteristics of modern library, such as large space, full opening, highlighting communication and enjoyment functions. Undoubtedly, it will become a cultural landmark of Wuhan University and open a new era of modernization of Wuhan University Library.