The predecessor of Shenzhen Library was Baoan County Library. The new Shenzhen Library is a large-scale modern cultural facility invested and constructed by the Shenzhen Municipal Government. It is located in front of the beautiful Lotus Mountain in the administrative and cultural center of Shenzhen. The new library covers an area of ??29,612 square meters, with a total construction area of ??49,589 square meters. It has a designed collection capacity of 4 million volumes, 2,000 reader seats, 3,000 network nodes, and can receive an average of 8,000 readers per day.
The Shenzhen Library has a unique architectural shape, exquisite conception and a very modern feel. The architectural model has also changed from the traditional model to a "modular" layout with fully open, large bays and no intervals. Its completion has added a unique cultural landscape to the young and vibrant city of Shenzhen. Shenzhen Library focuses on the application of new technologies and is the first in the country to adopt DILAS system and RFID technology. ILAS is developed by our library, has independent intellectual property rights, and has been rated as a major scientific and technological achievement promotion project by the Ministry of Culture. It has nearly 3,000 users across the country; DILAS (Digital Library Architecture Research and Application Platform Development Project) is a national plan A national key science and technology project assigned by the Commission will be put into use in Shenzhen Library.
Shenzhen Library will also be the first library in the country to adopt RFID technology. The adoption of RFID (radio frequency technology) will cause a comprehensive change in the library's business management model and will also provide readers with efficient use of books. Provide strong technical support for the anti-theft security of libraries and books. As the Shenzhen Municipal Book Document Collection and Utilization Center and Document Information Resource Development Center, the library currently has more than 3.13 million books and periodicals, nearly 2.67 million electronic and online documents of various types, and receives more than 3 million readers every year. After the completion of the new library, it will continue to function as the Shenzhen Document Information Center and the Regional Library Network Center, and will be built into a large-scale modern public library integrating popularization, research and digitization, reaching the level of a first-class domestic library. level, ranking among the world's advanced libraries.
Based on the economic, social, and cultural development conditions of Shenzhen, the collection construction of Shenzhen Library features high-tech, business, fashion, law and other special resources as well as Shenzhen local literature, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao literature resources, etc. resource. All books and periodicals in the reading area of ??Shenzhen Library are open-shelf service. The whole library is divided into six floors of service areas. The first floor is the newspaper and periodical service area, which mainly reads and borrows Chinese newspapers and periodicals, and has a separate reading room for the visually impaired; the second and third floors are the book lending area, which provides borrowing services for Chinese and foreign books. ; The fourth floor is the information service area that provides multimedia audio-visual, electronic reading, information consulting services, network services, etc.; the fifth floor is the thematic service area, which is divided into business, law, fashion, ASEAN information data center and foreign language newspapers and periodicals area according to the type of the topic. It provides special literature reading and consulting services for research-oriented readers; the sixth floor is the special collections service area, which provides reading of Shenzhen local literature, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao literature, guaranteed books, microform materials and ancient books. Shenzhen Library will adhere to the public welfare service purpose of maximizing the needs of readers and provide readers with simple and fast services. It will be open continuously from 9:00 to 21:00 every day except Monday, and will be open to the public 72 hours a week. In terms of service methods, it implements "full openness, card-free admission, hierarchical management, and one-stop service" and is open to all citizens. No certificates are required for ordinary reading. Generally, all services are free, and only cost fees are charged for printing, copying, etc.
As the most basic cultural facility in the city, the Shenzhen Library is, on the one hand, a knowledge palace for lifelong education for citizens, and on the other hand, it is also an important symbol of the city’s cultural connotation and cultural taste; at the same time, it will further strengthen its information reference function. Provide high-level knowledge support and information services for Shenzhen's government decision-making, economic development, technological innovation, academic research and other activities, implement Shenzhen's cultural strategy of building a "library city", and become the city's library network center.