Facing the challenges of the new century, new university, new image and new journey, we are more deeply aware of the arduous and arduous historical tasks we shoulder. We will emancipate our minds, seek truth from facts, keep pace with the times, blaze new trails, reorganize and optimize the structure as soon as possible, give full play to our comprehensive advantages, and make greater contributions to rejuvenating Shandong through science and education and revitalizing Liaocheng. Strive to build our library into a unique, national first-class university library and excellent public library. The whole library building is magnificent, covering an area of more than 23,000 square meters. It is one of the larger libraries in Shandong universities at present. The main building is located on the east side of the whole building, 12 floor, which is the main library. There are two lecture halls in the museum. The large lecture hall can accommodate 500 people and the small lecture hall can accommodate 150 people. The buildings on the north and south sides have four floors, including reading room, study room, exhibition hall, lecture hall, research box and studio, which can be read and studied by 4300 people at the same time. The whole building is strewn at random, symmetrical and rigorous in structure, winding in cloisters, dotted with gardens and leisure platforms on the roof, full of vitality in solemnity and tranquility, providing readers with a comfortable, bright and quiet learning place.
The branch library of Liaocheng University covers an area of nearly 5,000 square meters. There are offices, catalog halls, stacks, back issue reading rooms and current issue reading rooms in the branch libraries. The library is rich in literature resources and records the history of human civilization for thousands of years. The existing book collection system in our library is gradually formed and developed with the development of the school in the process of serving teaching and scientific research for a long time. Its collection system consists of five parts: special collection of ancient books, various special collections, samples, basic collections and electronic documents. The special collection of ancient books is an ancient and rare document, and it is the essence of book collection. Special collection is a collection of various specialized documents (such as foreign languages, reference books, newspapers, etc.). Samples are the epitome of collections and the embodiment of family treasures. The basic collection of books is the base camp of our library's lending service. Electronic literature is the inevitable product of the development and evolution of literature carriers in the information society.
The main types of documents collected in the library are books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, engraving, writing, printing and many modern electronic documents with new carriers. The total number of existing books exceeds 6,543,800+69,000. Among them, there are more than 20,000 kinds of foreign language books, 40,000 kinds of thread-bound books of ancient books and 65,438+10,000 kinds of newspapers and periodicals (including 90,000 kinds of Chinese newspapers and periodicals and 654,38+10,000 kinds of foreign language newspapers and periodicals). At present, we have subscribed to nearly 2,400 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals, 1 1000 Chinese electronic periodicals, 6,000 foreign electronic periodicals and 600,000 electronic books.
The East Campus Branch Library has more than 60,000 books, more than 3,500 bound volumes of periodicals, 200 kinds of current publications and 20 kinds of newspapers. The literature mainly involves agricultural science, forestry science, animal science, gardening and flowers, literature, computer science and other disciplines.
With the continuous development of the school, the funds for purchasing books increased to more than 4 million yuan in 2003, and the number of books and periodicals collected by the library increased year by year. It is estimated that about 70,000 books will be added each year, especially the digital literature information resources have been given full attention and priority by the school, which has promoted the rapid growth of digital information resources such as electronic periodicals, databases and digital libraries, and greatly improved the level of online digital information services. Under the correct leadership of the school party committee and school administration, all the staff of the library always adhere to the purpose of serving teaching and scientific research, adhere to the library motto of "readers first, serving and educating people", and strive to build the library into a teaching and scientific research service center, an academic activity center and a second classroom for student readers, and at the same time provide literature information services for local politics, economy, culture and scientific research. Facing the new challenges, in order to better realize the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education", we should strengthen the basic work of the library, gradually improve various rules and regulations, fulfill the functions of education and information service, actively adopt modern technology, implement scientific management, continuously improve the quality of professional work, meet the needs of readers to the greatest extent, and provide effective literature information guarantee for the teaching and scientific research of the school. So as to make the management level of the library reach the first-class in our province and gradually rank among the advanced libraries in China.
Under the new situation, the library is stepping up personnel reform, setting posts according to the needs of the whole library, competing for posts for all staff, establishing and perfecting various rules and regulations, and formulating post responsibility objectives and detailed rules, so that staff can know what their work tasks are, what they should do and what they should achieve. Change the traditional closed management mode to open management, open all stacks and reading rooms, and extend the opening and service time. The main task of library construction has gradually changed from collecting, processing, sorting, storing and transmitting all kinds of documents to providing users with information widely, quickly, accurately and correctly to meet the increasing information needs of users. In the era of automation and networking, the focus of library work is shifting from document business management to information resource management of document development. Under the network environment, libraries have strengthened active information provision and scientific management while carrying out book lending and reading services.
All stacks and reading rooms in the library are open to teachers and students of the whole school and users in this city, and all books and periodicals are open for borrowing. Books, periodicals and computers in the electronic reading room are all implemented with "campus cards". For the convenience of readers, the west and east gates of the library are equipped with touch-screen computers, through which readers can easily understand the layout of the whole collection, the orientation of various departments and rooms and the service content. There is a general service desk in the catalogue hall on the second floor to answer all kinds of questions raised by readers at any time; The library is also equipped with a 10 microcomputer and a library cabinet, which provides great convenience for readers to consult the literature.
At present, the book purchasing, cataloging, collection, circulation and retrieval in our library have been computerized. The consulting service department provides consulting services for all kinds of consulting questions raised by different users at different levels, studies the literature needs of readers and users, and provides readers with active information services in a targeted manner, such as answering consulting, consulting, training, information retrieval, interlibrary loan and other types and levels of services.
The library automation network system is the infrastructure of the library's daily service and various businesses, and it is the operating platform of the library's modern service. The library is equipped with a local area network (LAN) connected with the Internet, and provides comprehensive literature information resource retrieval services for all teachers and students through the campus network. The library network system is composed of traditional literature resources, electronic literature resources and network information resources, which constitutes a multi-level and all-round resource service system and provides a strong literature resource guarantee for teaching and scientific research in our school. Library leaders attach great importance to automation and network construction, do everything possible to increase capital investment and strive to allocate advanced equipment. At present, the library has modern equipment such as SUN workstation, MICROMEDIA all-fiber disk array (8.5T), escort disk array (SCSI, 4.3T), many high-grade servers, 180 microcomputers, 1 color printer, 9 laser printers, 5 needle printers and 3 photocopiers. The ILAS2.0 system developed by Shenzhen Library used by the library is an advanced library automation management system in China, which makes all the services of the library computerized. The library has advanced electronic reading room and multimedia reading room. Using computer network retrieval system, readers can browse news content, read electronic books and periodicals, inquire needed information, retrieve academic papers, download documents, exchange ideas, acquire knowledge, and improve the level of microcomputer operation.
The home page of the library has a variety of columns (such as academic documents, latest news, readers' messages, library affairs announcements, postgraduate entrance examination information, literary classics, multimedia pilot broadcasts, etc.). ) provides a place for students to communicate and make suggestions online, where they can read a large number of valuable secondary academic documents, and also express their opinions and suggestions from different angles to supervise the service of the library.
At present, the digital resources provided by the library website include: library literature resources, readers' borrowing information, Chinese academic journal database, VIP science and technology journal database, Wanfang academic conference papers, Wanfang science and technology information database, China important newspaper full-text database, China excellent doctoral thesis database, NPC newspaper copy materials, Superstar digital library, Scholars' Home Digital Library, Elsevier SDOS foreign language journal full-text database, EBSCO and Springer Link. In terms of resources and equipment, the library will continue to strengthen the construction of digital information resources, and strive to build a unique collection of literature information resources as soon as possible to meet the needs of readers' learning, teaching and scientific research.
The goal of library reader service is not only limited to the modernization of conventional services such as reading, borrowing and document copying, but also limited to the modernization of information processing and retrieval means. Instead, it is necessary to realize the advanced management concept, the intellectualization of personnel quality and the rationalization of knowledge structure, and finally realize the modernization of the document information service of the whole library. At the end of 2003, the reform of personnel system and management system was deepened under the guidance of the school party Committee and the specific operation of the library leaders. According to the basic purpose of service teaching, the direction of running a school and the specific situation in the library, the library leaders have made a feasible reform plan on the basis of full investigation and research, and established and implemented the management mechanism of "setting posts according to needs, open recruitment, equal competition, merit-based appointment, strict examination and contract management". Under the principle of rationality and fairness, everyone competes for posts according to their own strength and conditions, so that the personnel management system has changed from the past managers to management posts. Everyone first competes for the director of the department, and then the director of the department selects the best personnel from the declared personnel to realize two-way selection and optimize the combination. In terms of treatment, the salary of the original file is fixed, and the school will pay extra on-campus allowances, which will be graded according to the level of the competitive positions, fully embodying the principles of responsibility first, more work and more pay, better pay for better work, priority for benefits, fairness and justice.
After the reform, every staff member competed for his suitable post and improved his work enthusiasm. From the work assigned by the leaders in the past to actively striving for the work, he worked hard to carry out and innovate the work according to his post responsibilities, which ensured the smooth completion of the library work and brought the library work to a new level. The purchasing quality of books and materials has been improved, the speed of book classification and cataloging has been accelerated, the opening hours have been extended, the service attitude has been correct, the service level for readers has been improved, and teachers and students are satisfied with the library. Of course, the status of the library has also been improved accordingly. The reform has activated the enthusiasm of the staff, greatly promoted the progress of management work and the completion of tasks, and the whole library has emerged a new situation of vitality and upward competition.