Introduction to Rizhao City Library

Rizhao City Library was founded in May 1974. In 1989, as Rizhao City was upgraded to a prefecture-level city, it became Rizhao City Library. The existing library covers an area of ??1,200 square meters and has a collection of 70,000 volumes. (Among them: 56,876 books, 1,338 ancient books; more than 13,000 bound volumes of newspapers and periodicals). The library now has an office, an acquisition and editing department, a borrowing department, a business guidance department, a literature resources department, a network information department, and a public sharing engineering branch center. There are currently 2,137 certified readers and 60 seats in the reading room. Implement open-shelf lending. Open to the public all year round. It receives an average of more than 20,000 readers per year. The new library was built in 2015 and officially opened on December 26. The library covers an area of ??32,000 square meters and is divided into one underground floor and three above ground floors. It is a modern large-scale comprehensive public library with advanced equipment and complete functions. pavilion. The library has set up a digital resource experience area, a children's borrowing area, a senior lending area (visually impaired reading area), an academic report area, a newspaper and periodical reading area, a book lending area, an audio-visual document lending area, a self-study area for readers, and a special collection reading area. There are more than 20 service windows including Nishan Academy, Wang Xiantang Memorial Hall, and Newspaper Exhibition Hall. Newly purchased paper books of more than 80,000 categories and more than 260,000 volumes