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At present, the National Library of China has formed a digital library alliance with some 90 other libraries around the country, making joint efforts in promoting the development and application of China's digital public information service. The second phase of the National Library – China Digital Library, whose foundation was laid at the end ...
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 [1] [2] It holds the largest collection of Chinese literature and historical documents in the world [3] and covers an area of 280,000 square ...
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 old building in Zhongshan Road has been closed since 1 April 2013. [2]
The library was designed by the Rotterdam-based architectural firm MVRDV [5] along with the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI), a group of local architects. Because of a tight construction schedule by the local government, the project went from preliminary drawings to its doors opening within three years. [ 6 ]
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] It is one of the two earliest United Nations document ...
Shanghai Library (with a second name as the Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technological Information) is a municipal public library in Shanghai, China. It is owned by the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. [1] The library is one of the largest libraries in the world.
In 1907 Duanfang, Viceroy of Liangjiang, established Jiangnan Library on the site of Xiyin Academy at Nanjing in order to preserve ancient books and scrolls of Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty, Ming dynasty, and Qing dynasty. Miao Quansun (繆荃孫) was appointed to be the librarian. The Jiangnan Library was the first modern public library in China. [3]
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 ...