The library building of Guangya Bookstore, founded by Zhang Zhidong, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the late Qing Dynasty, was changed to Guangdong Library in July 19 12. Guangzhou Zhongshan Library opened in June 1933+ 10/0.65438. It was built by overseas Chinese in Guangdong living in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba in memory of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. ..
1May, 955, the two libraries were merged and renamed.
1986 1 1 new building 10 was partially completed and opened in October, and/kloc-0 was fully completed by the end of 989.
As of 1990, the library has 3.37 million books in 44 languages, including Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and Russian, among which Southeast Asian countries have relatively complete languages. Among them, there are more than 2.3 million new and old Chinese paperbacks, 400,000 online ancient books (1.500, 30,000 books listed as rare books in China), 654.387 million foreign books, 26,000 Chinese and foreign periodicals and 330,000 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals. The museum also collects maps, photos, rubbings, genealogy, leaflets and statements, file lists and other documents, as well as audio-visual materials such as microfilms, disks, tapes, records, videos and slides. The collection features Sun Yat-sen's literature, materials of the Revolution of 1911, overseas Chinese, Southeast Asia, Hainan Island and South China Sea Islands, local chronicles and Guangdong Revolution.
Since 1979, the library has established information exchange relations with libraries in the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Macao, and is one of the depository libraries of UNESCO publications.