The total construction area of the main building is 74,965,438+065,438+0 square meters. In the middle is a square stack with a side length of 45 meters. The library is divided into 17 floors, with an area of 32 185 square meters, and can hold 4.5 million books, with a total shelf length of 172 km. There are reading rooms and offices around the stacks. The study area is 8496 square meters, and the office is 34230 square meters.
The new building is on the north side of the main building, connected with the main building through a corridor, forming an organic whole. This new building is a rectangular building. There are 4 floors above ground and 8 floors underground, with a total area of 72,942 square meters. The stacks are all underground, with 8 floors and an area of 4586 1 m2. The new stacks can hold 7.5 million books, and the total length of shelves is 240 kilometers. The western half of the ground part is the business office and the eastern half is the reading room. The new library has set up a four-story hall where readers can see the locations of all reading rooms. The place for studying is 9 193 square meters, and the office is 17888 square meters.
The main library and the new library cover an area of about 29,000 square meters, with a building area of 6,543,800 square meters and a book collection capacity of 6,543,800+0,200 volumes. There are 16 reading rooms in the main building and new building of the Central Library, which are open to the general readers, with seats of 1 172. Including the first reading room (245), the second reading room (187), the third reading room (74), the comprehensive research room (69), the reference library (108), the newspaper reading room (144), the science and technology reference room (80) and the government. Map room (23), constitution reference room (25), ancient books reference room (25), library science reference room (33), Asia reference room (37) and audio-visual reference room (20).
The construction land of Kansai Pavilion (temporarily called) is 82,500 square meters, with a total construction area of about165,000 square meters. 1998 10 started construction. 1 The project was completed in March 2002, with an area of 59,500 square meters and a collection of 6 million books. Upon completion, the collection will reach 20 million copies.
The International Children's Library was built after the reconstruction of Ueno Library. 1 The project was completed in May, 2000, with a construction area of 2,254 square meters, including 63 1 square meters for reading and 0/.623 square meters for office. The second phase of the project was completed in 2002, with a total area of about 6600 square meters.