Guangdong Science and Technology Museum undertakes four functions at the same time, namely, the Provincial Public Comprehensive Science Museum, Guangzhou Branch of China Academy of Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences Library and Guangzhou Education Base Library of China Academy of Sciences. It is the lead unit of China Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Branch and Guangdong Academy of Sciences Literature Information Collaboration Network (referred to as "the Literature Information Collaboration Network of the two academies") and the initiator of the construction of "Guangdong Science and Technology Literature Information Network". It is also an important infrastructure for Guangdong Province to build a cultural province, a strong science and technology province and regional independent innovation.
Guangdong Science and Technology Library is open to the public free of charge, focusing on scientific research institutes, institutions of higher learning, enterprises and institutions, researchers and readers from all walks of life in the province. It is open 362 days a year and 65 hours a week.
The new building covers an area of 20,000 square meters and is equipped with central air conditioning and advanced computer network equipment. It has 300 academic lecture halls, 80 collective audio-visual rooms, 50 individual audio-visual rooms and 500 reading seats.
The collection of books and periodicals is mainly comprehensive scientific and technological documents, with printed books 1 15000, including 400,000 books in Chinese and foreign languages and 750,000 periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages. There are special information websites in five high-tech fields, such as biotechnology, electronic information, new materials, environmental protection, and integration of optics, mechanics and electronics, as well as national scientific and technological books. There are 49 databases of electronic resources and scientific and technological literature information in Chinese and foreign languages, including nearly 654.38+million kinds of Chinese electronic periodicals and more than 4,000 kinds of foreign electronic periodicals. The total data of electronic resources in Chinese and foreign languages exceeds 654.38+billion.
There are 56 employees, including 9 senior titles, 4 graduate students and 35 junior college students. Subjects include library science, science and technology information science, information management, information engineering, computer, automatic control, machinery manufacturing, chemical engineering, polymers, biology, earth science and other majors. It is a professional team with reasonable structure and high quality.