The opening hours of Changping Library are 8:00-11:30 in the morning and 14:00-17:00 in the afternoon. It is open all year round.
Beijing Changping District Library is a district-affiliated comprehensive public library. It is an important part of the science, education and cultural undertakings of Changping District. It stores human knowledge and provides information for the people of the district. Cultural institutions serving. Its function is to be open to the public and provide readers with various services such as document loan, reading, information consultation, and business coaching. ?
The Changping District Library was formerly known as the Changping District Cultural Center Library Group and was established in September 1949. In January 1979, Changping District Library was established separately. In October 1999, Changping was dismantled from county to district, and Changping County Library was upgraded to Changping District Library. With the attention and support of the Changping District Party Committee and District Government, a new library was built in early 2003. The new library was officially put into use on December 18, 2004. The new building has a usable area of ??8,000 square meters. The new library has a children's reading room designed according to children's psychological characteristics and fully embodying humanistic care; an adult study room that can accommodate 400 people and an area of ??nearly 500 square meters; and has integrated wiring in accordance with national standards, which can accommodate more than 100 people at the same time. There is an electronic reading room for people to surf the Internet; there is a video conference lecture hall that can complete video conferencing, government reports, news releases, academic discussions, video playback, small performances, teaching and other activities. At present, the Changping District Library has a total collection of 650,000 volumes (items), including 590,000 books, 15,000 electronic documents and audio-visual CDs, 379 ancient books, 242 Braille books, and 46,000 valid certified readers. . It receives 400,000 readers every year, borrows 450,000 books and periodicals, and carries out more than 100 reader activities.
Changping District Library has a strong professional and technical team. There are 56 formal employees in the library, 50 of whom have a college degree or above, and 10 who have obtained intermediate professional and technical titles or above.
For many years, Changping District Library has been adhering to the service concept of "people-oriented, readers first" and is open to the public free of charge. In the spirit of development, pragmatism, pioneering and innovation, on the basis of doing a good job in positional service work Further deepen the service level, expand service areas, innovate service content, and provide free, convenient and high-quality services to the general public through various modes such as grassroots services, exhibition services, event services, lecture services, special and individual services, etc. Through the development of the ***Enjoyment Project and Yimin Bookstore work, people in remote mountainous areas and rural areas can also enjoy equal cultural rights and interests. In addition, through measures such as establishing caring reading rooms, donating materials and books to orphaned elderly people in nursing homes and mentally retarded children in special education schools, and establishing book delivery points in detention centers, armed police units, and welfare homes, we have continuously increased services to vulnerable groups, so that The Changping District Library’s image of “benefiting the public and disseminating knowledge” has been deeply rooted in the people of the district.
Since Changping District Library entered the ranks of municipal advanced libraries in 1984, it has won the honorable title of municipal civilized library and national civilized library many times. In the first evaluation and grading of national public libraries in 1994, it ranked first among suburban county libraries in the city with a score of 887, and was rated as a national second-level library; in 1998, in the second national public library evaluation In the **library evaluation and grading work, the Changping District Library won the first place in the city's public libraries with a total score of 995 and was rated as a national first-class library; later in 2009 and 2013, it was rated as the first-class library in the country. In the fifth public library evaluation and grading in 2016, it was rated as a national first-class library. Over the years, the Changping District Library has won the honorary title of "Women's Civilization Demonstration Post" in Beijing and the country, been rated as "Readers' Favorite Library" by the Ministry of Culture, and has been rated as "National Reading Activities" and "Red Scarf" by relevant municipal departments for many years. "Reading Activity" Excellent Organization Unit.
With years of construction and development, the Changping District Library has become the Changping District document lending center, data retrieval center, information exchange center, education and training center, and a knowledge palace for lifelong education for the people of Changping District. It plays an increasingly important role in promoting the spread of socialist culture and building a world-class new science and education zone.