The Historical Evolution of Inner Mongolia University Library

Inner Mongolia University Library was established in June1957 65438+1October 65438+April, which is the first comprehensive university library established in China minority areas after the founding of New China. At that time, it was located in the main teaching building of the school, covering an area of 2,000 square meters, with a collection of174,000 books, of which 60,000 books were donated by Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nankai University, Jinan University, Fudan University and other 12 domestic institutions of higher learning at the early stage of school preparation according to the instructions of Premier Zhou Enlai. At the beginning, there were nearly 20 staff members, and a relatively scientific basic work and a certain scale lending system were established. At the beginning of the establishment of the library, the building occupied a corner of the main teaching building, with an area of about 2,000 square meters and a collection of 6,543,800+074,000 books. There are nearly 20 staff members, and a certain scale of lending system has been established to provide some basic services for readers.

1978, the first independent library of Inner Mongolia University was completed, covering an area of 5,400 square meters. At this time, the collection of books has reached more than 600,000 volumes and there are 46 staff members.

1989, the first phase of the new library of Inner Mongolia University was completed, covering an area of 5,600 square meters. At this time, the total area of the library is 1 and 1 10,000 square meters, with 4 cashier rooms and 16 reading rooms, with 1300 reading seats, one million books and 93 staff.

1997 was listed as one of the 100 universities under the national "21/project". 1998, the library adopted the international and domestic standardized description format, and independently built the Chinese, English and Mongolian bibliographic databases, especially the characteristic database of Mongolian in the library. * * * Introduced and purchased 18 databases such as ISI database, SpringerLink database and Apabi digital library system, and built 10 database, which greatly enriched the library's network literature information resources and became the largest network information center in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. With the establishment of library local area network, most of the work of the library has basically got rid of the traditional manual operation mode and realized networked computer management. Literature acquisition and cataloging work has developed from the initial stand-alone management to the operation of library local area network, and then to online cataloging on the Internet. The reading room adopts the layout mode of collecting, borrowing and reading in one, which is shared by teachers and students, and the vast majority of documents are managed in an open way. The inquiry of books and documents, the management of readers' borrowing documents and business statistics have also realized computer automation management, which has effectively improved the utilization rate of library collections and the scientific management level of reader service. Online consultation service has been opened, and consultants can provide online consultation service for readers anytime and anywhere.