Shandong Provincial Library was founded in 1909 (the year of Xuantongyuan in Qing Dynasty). It is one of the top ten libraries in China. According to the Records of Building a Museum in Shandong, Shandong scholar Luo built a library in the old northeast of the provincial capital, imitating Fan's old system of "Tianyi Pavilion" in Ningbo, Zhejiang. The ancient wooden rockery and Qushui arch bridge in the courtyard are very elegant and unique, which can be called "the best".

By the end of 2004, there were 61.2000 documents in the library, among which the collections of light industry, medicine and philosophy have reached the research level, while the collections of Qilu local records, Haiyuange, Yijing and Shandong revolutionary documents are relatively rich.

According to the official website information of the library in March 20 16, the new library of Shandong Province started construction in June 20 1994. The whole project is divided into two stages. The first phase is a comprehensive reading building with a construction area of 35,830 square meters and an investment of10,485,438+0,000 yuan. The main building is a six-story hollow structure, all of which adopt a large bay column net structure with a spacing of 7.2 meters, and the area of each floor ranges from more than 2,000 square meters to more than 6,000 square meters. The second phase of the library building *** 12 floor. The number of open-shelf lending rooms has increased from two to eight, and the number of open-shelf books has increased from 6.5438+0.5 million to 6.5438+0.5 million. There are more than 35 open reading rooms and research rooms, and more than 2,000 readers' reading rooms.