Brief history of library of Sichuan Province

The library of Sichuan Province was prepared in 1909, serve opened in 1912. Named the library of Sichuan Province formally in 1952. Sichuan famous scholars Lin Sijin, Meng Wentong, Wu Feibai and Mu JiBo have successively taken the post as the manager .The library of Sichuan Province have 4,600,000 volumes of document in storage today. The hall hides the most characteristic parts: Local district annals of Sichuan, poesy collection of past dynasties literature, China's ancient medical books, document of war of resistance, periodical during the period of the Republic of China, the Cultural Revolution materials, large-scale comprehensive type of foreign original edition, the fundamentals reference book and ordinary books. The storage of documents and materials were got from presenting and paying, selective purchase, domestic and international change, donate, allot and copy etc. The services content of the business is mainly as follows, read in the hall, open shelves to borrow for public use; booklist consultation and reference, work out the thematic booklist, the index, the second document, there are oral, telephone, written advisory service; The miniature audio and video materials with many kinds of modernized technological means are served, allocate perfect technical equipment; Irregular run-up all kinds of thematic book exhibition, academic lecture, public lecture, etc.. Receive readers 576,000 times every year. Nearly 70 hours for every week. The library of Sichuan Province is the exchange and study center of library science and information science. The secretariat of the library of Sichuan Province affiliated to this hall. Committee's office of the center library of Sichuan Province is set up in this hall. The irregular organization of library of Sichuan Province launches the scientific management of the library, research of the theory and technology that the automatic technology of the library, document standardization, document are mini duplicated, etc.; Open TV university of library science, correspondence university and all kinds of training; Work out 37 kinds of different thematic booklists and documental materials, publish "The Library of Sichuan Province Journal "and "Transaction of library of Sichuan Province ". Meanwhile, take charge of the cooperation and coordination of all kinds of library in the whole province, and coach the work of public library in ground, city, state, county (district).