Liaoning Provincial Library is a provincial-level comprehensive public library organized by the state, and it is an academic social public welfare cultural unit that provides literature information services to the public. It is the center of cooperation, coordination, business research and exchange among books, book catalogues and libraries in Liaoning Province. Under the leadership of Liaoning Provincial Department of Culture.
Liaoning Provincial Library has made great progress since its establishment 60 years ago, with nearly 5 million ancient and modern books. 10 languages, and has established literature exchange relations with libraries in 17 countries and regions? . Among the 560,000 ancient books, there are about 6.5438+0.2 million rare books, including nearly 100 Song and Yuan editions? . In addition, it also has a rich collection of northeast local documents and documents about Manchu, Manchu and Puppet Manchu.
The library of Liaoning Province always adheres to the service tenet of "readers first, service first", and has set up 19 external service windows, such as comprehensive lending room, newspaper consulting room, children's lending room, reading room for the elderly, disabled reading room, electronic literature retrieval room, reference book reading room, legal literature reading room, local literature reading room, audio-visual material lending room, ancient books reading room and preservation reading room, as well as social science literature consulting room and scientific and technological literature consulting room. For the convenience of readers, Liaoning Provincial Library has implemented a wide range of open-shelf management, and the number of open-shelf documents has reached 6.5438+0.9 million, which is integrated with borrowing and lending. The library has more than 654.38+0.200 reading seats.
Liaoning Provincial Library is open seven days a week, with an average weekly opening time of 73 hours. It receives nearly 3000 readers every day on average. Liaoning Provincial Library has basically realized automatic management, and adopted computer management in the main business work such as document acquisition, cataloging, circulation, retrieval, continuous publications and office work. At the same time, give full play to the advantages of collection. Develop database construction. 1997, Liaoning provincial library has taken the lead in starting the digital library project. Completed the construction of library local area network, and connected to the Internet through CHINANET. All these indicate that the overall strategy of Liaoning library's modern information resources construction has been implemented. ? The basic starting point of building a Socialism with Chinese characteristics library is to fully develop the literature resources in the collection, serve the readers wholeheartedly and promote the improvement of the construction of "two civilizations" in the whole society. Liaoning Provincial Library has always adhered to this direction. In recent years, Liaoning Provincial Library has been awarded the honorary titles of "National First-class Library", "National Advanced Collective in Cultural Work", "Model Unit of Spiritual Civilization", "Advanced Party Committee", "Star Award for Service", "National Advanced Collective for Helping the Disabled" and "National Advanced Collective in Ancient Books Work of Ethnic Minorities" by the provincial party committee, provincial government and other higher-level leading departments. We are determined to live up to the expectations of leaders and readers, and strive to build Liaoning Provincial Library into a first-class domestic and internationally advanced modern new library.