1926, the library of Hunan Education Society was renamed as Zhongshan Library, with He Shuheng as the curator. At the beginning of the following year, Hunan Provincial Library merged and was named Zhongshan Library of Hunan Province.
From 65438 to 0928, Fu Xiongxiang, a Hunan scholar, was the curator, sorting out books and compiling the bibliography of Zhongshan Library in Hunan Province. 1929, the famous bibliophile Ye Dehui bought some books. At the beginning of 1930, the library expanded and added branches. By the beginning of 1938, the collection had increased to150,000 copies. 19381June19, the Japanese invaders bombed Changsha, and the building was in ruins, so they had to move to Chenxi, Xiangtan and Yuanling, and moved back to Changsha in March 1946. Due to frequent wars and people's livelihood, museums have been repeatedly killed and unsustainable. It was not until August 1949 that Hunan was peacefully liberated that it survived.
1953 was renamed as Zhongshan Library in Hunan Province, which strengthened the service for readers, especially scientific researchers, the compilation of bibliographic index and professional counseling. 1956 and 1957, Hunan Provincial Cultural Relics Management Committee allocated 30 ancient books, many of which are precious historical documents. September 1966 was renamed as Hunan provincial library, and September 10/970 was renamed as Hunan provincial library. During the "Cultural Revolution", the work of our library was inevitably influenced by "Left" errors and to varying degrees, but the typical experience of running rural, factory and street libraries in Liling County, Zhuzhou City and Changsha City had a great impact on the national library community.
1984 The new library located at No.38 Shaoshan Road opened. 1984 the first large-scale provincial modern library in China was built. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, Hu Yaobang, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, inscribed the name of the new library, set things right, cleaned up the source, and the library was full of vitality. 1979, with the great attention of the party and the government, the new building broke ground on Shaoshan Road, which is the first large-scale modern building of provincial public libraries in China. 1 984 65438+February1officially opened to the public, and the museum was named Hunan Library, inscribed by Hu Yaobang, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. The building covers an area of 29,300 square meters, including the main building of 23,900 square meters, including the reading building with 4 floors, the stacks with 12 floors and the basement. 1998 the whole building was restored to reproduce the style of "Changsha White House". There are comprehensive books, Chinese back issues, foreign books and periodicals, readers' bookstores and other lending offices. According to the literature distribution, there are 30 reading rooms and readers' study rooms of various specifications, with reading seats 1200. Some lending offices and reading rooms implement open-shelf lending. With the ever-changing objective situation, the layout of stacks and reading rooms is constantly adjusted to make them more reasonable and scientific.
Hunan Library is the largest public library in Hunan Province and one of the three public libraries in Changsha (the other two libraries are Hunan Children's Library and Changsha Library).