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The National Library of China (NLC) is the national library of China, located in Haidian, Beijing, and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It contains over 41 million items as of December 2020. [1] [2] It holds the largest collection of Chinese literature and historical documents in the world [3] and covers an area of 280,000 square ...
The Shanghai Library is China's largest provincial-level library. Of its collection, the over 1.7 million volumes of ancient documents are the most valuable and representative, including 25,000 titles of rare ancient books in 178,000 volumes, many being the only copies extant in the world. The oldest document dates back nearly 1,500 years. [10]
In the 1990s, China's library automation program began to take off. The Ministry of Education (MOE) decided to build a public resource sharing system under the "211 Project", and CALIS and CERNET came into being. The MOE appointed Peking University to be in charge of CALIS and Tsinghua University to be in charge of CERNET. [1]
In October 1956, the library was renamed the Capital Library. [6] On November 1, 2013, after the National Library of China succumbed to government pressure, [7] the Capital Library accepted a lecture by Australian historian Ross Terrill, who delivered a speech on the theme of "Mao Zedong in the Eyes of a Biographer: His Life, Personality and ...
Guangzhou Library (Chinese: 广州图书馆) is a public library in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, China. The library has moved to a new building in Zhujiang New Town , which fully opened on 23 June 2013. [ 1 ]
The China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) or China-US Million Book Digital Library Project (simply Million Project) was co-constructed by Chinese and American institutes and researchers. At present it's co-managed by Zhejiang University Libraries and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School.
The Chongqing Library (shortly named the National Roosevelt Library from 1946 to 1949 [2]) is a large-scale comprehensive public library, located in Shapingba, Chongqing, China. [3] The library was established in 1947, [ 4 ] and was one of only five national libraries in China at the time. [ 5 ]
Oriental Library, Shanghai. The Oriental Library (Chinese:東方圖書館) was a pioneering library in Shanghai, China. Established in 1925, it was the first publicly accessible private library in China. Located on Baoshan Road in Zhabei, it was owned and run by The Commercial Press.