The new Wuhan Library covers an area of 32,975 square meters, with 2 157 reading seats, 14 reading rooms, functional service areas such as education, training, lecture hall, academic activity room and exhibition hall, 2 146 reading seats, and advanced computer network, satellite communication and safety monitoring equipment system to provide barrier-free access for disabled readers. By 2006, Wuhan Library had 6.5438+0.94 million books (pieces), including 2.65438+0 million ancient books, more than 0.0 million local documents, more than 20,000 electronic and audio-visual documents, more than 2,500 movies, 3,089 music libraries and more than 80 kinds of multimedia teaching software. It has large-scale commercial database resources such as Chinese academic journals database, China dissertations database, China conference papers database, China important newspapers and periodicals database, national research network, Wanfang database, NPC copy materials, Apabi e-books, as well as special databases such as library rare books database, Hubei historical names database, Wuhan War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression history research literature database and Wuhan illustrated books.
Adhering to the tenet of "reader first, service first", Wuhan Library has taken various measures to facilitate readers, continuously expanded its service contents and innovated its service methods, and provided readers with various types and levels of library services such as borrowing, reading, multimedia audio-visual service, reference service, document retrieval, special topic retrieval, reader education, document delivery and document reproduction, and held various lectures, exhibitions and other reader activities. Through the automobile library, there are 45 books and periodicals service points outside the library, forming a Wuhan mobile book service network with Wuhan Library as the center, mobile cars as the link, service points as the terminal and covering cities, districts, streets and communities.
Wuhan Library also undertakes the work of Wuhan Library Society, and is responsible for providing professional guidance to the city's 13 district and county libraries, which promotes the overall development of Wuhan public libraries. In June 2000, Wuhan Library became an institutional member of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and since then, it has had the voice of Wuhan Library on the international stage of library specialty.
With its rich literature resources and good service, Wuhan Library has become an important place for Wuhan citizens to widely read, dabble in various disciplines and obtain all kinds of information, and has made important contributions to Wuhan's cultural construction and social and economic development.
In 2004, Wuhan Library was rated as a national first-class library by the Ministry of Culture. In 2008, it was listed in the first batch of national key protection units of ancient books, and successively won the National Advanced Library Society in 2000-2004, the "Double Top Ten" advanced collective in 2005 and the "May 1 Labor Medal" of the city, the establishment of an advanced unit in civilized industry in Hubei Province in 2005, the civilized unit in Wuhan in 2006 and the national public prize in 2007. The Youth League Committee of Wuhan Library won the "May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee of the Bureau System in 2008"; Won the "Best Civilized Unit at District Level in 2007-2008"; In the 16th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1537), Bai Ping's printed edition "The Origin of New Textbooks in Ancient and Modern Times: The First Ten Volumes, the Last Ten Volumes, the Continued Ten Volumes and the Other Ten Volumes" was selected as the second batch of national precious ancient books. National advanced reading unit in 2009; From 2009 to 20 10, it won the title of "civilized unit" at the provincial level; 20 1 1 won the title of "National Reading Demonstration Base"; 20 1 1 year, the case of "sending thousands of books to grass-roots reading to promote urban and rural areas" selected by our library won the "Excellent case of community township reading promotion activities-promotion award"; Won the honorary title of "20 1 1-20 12 Wuhan Advanced Collective in Propaganda and Ideological and Cultural Work"; The famous forum of our library won the title of "national brand of lifelong learning activities" on 20 104. The automobile library of our library won the title of "Learning from Lei Feng" in Wuhan on 20 15.