Putian Library was established in July 2000, with an existing construction area of 2,750 square meters and a collection of more than 200,000 books. At present, there are seven service windows, such as loan room, newspaper room, children's room, reference room, electronic reading room, government information public reference room and local literature reading room.
2011110 The construction of the new Putian Library began. The total construction area is 30,095.92 square meters, including five floors above ground of 24,976.2 square meters and underground of 565,438+065,438+09.72 square meters. Putian Library has been rated as a national third-class library by the Ministry of Culture for two consecutive years, as an advanced collective of the province's cultural system by the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and the Personnel Department, and as an advanced unit of the province's ancient book protection work by the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture.