After the Republic of China, due to the turmoil of the current situation, it developed little.
Since the Anti-Japanese War, the school has been reduced to a Japanese barracks, and only some valuable books have been deposited with foreign companies in the British Concession, and a considerable number of books and periodicals have been lost to the society, which has caused heavy losses.
1937 Beiyang institute of technology moved westward to Shaanxi, and jointly established Northwest United University with Peking University and other schools. 1In July, 938, Xuan and Engineering College of Peking University set up Northwest Institute of Technology and set up Northwest Institute of Technology Library.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the library of Beiyang University resumed its reconstruction. 1946.
On the eve of liberation, books and periodicals were completely preserved in the school nursing movement led by the underground organization of China * * * Production Party.
195 1 In September, Beiyang University Library and Hebei Polytechnic University Library merged to form Tianjin University Library, with Xigu as the main library and Wei Yuan Road as the south campus branch.
1952, the whole library moved to the new site of Qilitai with the school.
1956 65438+In February, under the call of the whole country to March into science, the Ministry of Education held the first conference on university library work, asking all schools to strengthen library work. Tianjin University has carried out the spirit of this conference, strengthened its leadership over library work, equipped capable cadres and increased funds. At the same time, a large-scale independent library has been established.
/kloc-since August, 1958, it has moved into the library reading building (now North Library) with an area of nearly 10,000 square meters. Tianjin University Library has made great progress, expanded its scale, increased its collection, established complete rules and regulations, carried out business reform, unified the self-made classification and cataloging of Chinese and foreign books, and improved its service facilities and quality.
From the Cultural Revolution of 1966, the normal business basically stopped in the first few years of the Cultural Revolution, especially some foreign periodicals subscribed to 1967 to 1975, of which 1969 all foreign periodicals stopped publishing, resulting in a partial shortage of some important periodicals. Fortunately, all the books and periodicals in the collection have basically not suffered losses.
From 65438 to 0969, some staff members were evacuated to the accounting circle and Dasuzhuang in Baodi County, and began to return to school one after another more than a year later. 197 1 After recruiting students of workers, peasants and soldiers, the business gradually recovered.
1976 Tianjin suffered a major earthquake. Buildings were shattered, bookshelves were knocked down and books were scattered all over the floor. After the earthquake, comrades in the whole library repaired bookshelves, sorted out books and periodicals, and insisted on borrowing and returning books.
198 1 year, the state education commission established the national working committee of university libraries, and the library of Tianjin University was the library of Tianjin Municipal Committee. The State Education Commission promulgated the Regulations on the Work of People's Republic of China (PRC) University Library, and the implementation of the regulations has promoted the library of Tianjin University to enter a new stage of development. The funds have increased year after year, the number of cadres has expanded, the collection of books has increased rapidly, and the service facilities have been continuously improved.
1985, the expansion of the 4,570-square-meter special library was completed, the layout of books and periodicals in the library was reasonable, and the service quality was further improved.
1990, the modern science library (Shaw Hall) with a total area of 10968 square meters was completed, and it was put into use one after another with the building branch of more than 300 square meters built in the same period. The number of open-shelf borrowing has expanded on a large scale, especially in the use of modern technology to serve teaching and scientific research.
1993, based on years of active information service, according to the provisions of the document of the State Education Commission (1992(55)), the workstation of Tianjin University, the consultation and novelty retrieval center of scientific and technological projects in universities, was established in Tianda Library.
1In May 1995, the library introduced HP-9000/800 G30 minicomputer from Hewlett-Packard Company in the United States, and configured the corresponding multi-user network system of the library, which initially realized the computer management of library business.
The launch of the project 1997 2 1 1 has turned a new page in the history of Tianda Library.
In recent years, the library has successively built a video reading room, an electronic reading room, an electronic retrieval room, an electronic training room and a video conference hall, developed an integrated management system for the library reading room by itself, and introduced the UNICORN integrated management system of SIRSI Company of the United States, thus fully realizing the computer management of library business. In the construction of electronic resources, CDs and network databases such as CA and Ei have been introduced successively. In order to help teachers and students make better use of library resources, both graduate students and undergraduate students in the whole school have set up scientific and technological literature (information) retrieval courses, and have set up various lectures on the utilization of literature resources regularly and irregularly throughout the school.
2 1 century is an information age, and the level of development and utilization of information resources is an important symbol of a country's comprehensive national strength. The library of Tianjin University, with a history of one hundred years, is moving towards a modern library with multi-functions, comprehensiveness, research and openness.