After the internal management system reform of streamlining the organization, the Dalian University Library now has four departments and one room: the acquisition and editing department, the reading department, the circulation department, the information department, and the office.
1. Office
Responsible for the daily affairs and management of the entire library.
2. Acquisition and Editorial Department
The Acquisition and Editorial Department is responsible for the procurement, classification, cataloging, collection and bibliographic database maintenance of various types of literature resources other than journals. It is the construction of literature resources in the library. center.
3. Reading Department
Responsible for the selection, acceptance, recording, classification, sorting and packaging of Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals, cataloging, collection, bibliographic database maintenance and filling of missing issues of newspapers and periodicals Responsible for the promotion and recommendation of newly ordered newspapers and periodicals and the management of the reading room of books and periodicals.
The library reading department includes two parts: book reading and newspaper reading. ***There are 9 reading rooms and a newspaper reading area. There are 6 book reading rooms: teachers' reading room, student reading room, art reading room, ancient books reading room, Toshiba reading room, and foreign language reading room; there are 3 periodical reading rooms: social science journals Reading room, science and technology journal reading room, back issue reading room; on the left side of the lobby on the first floor is the newspaper reading office.
The reading room is open nearly 90 hours a week.
4. Circulation Department
The Circulation Department is the service window directly facing readers. It mainly provides loan services and protects book collections. At the same time, it also carries out book promotion, reading tutoring, answering readers' inquiries and readers' borrowing
The production and issuance of reading certificates, as well as the work of readers' departure and withdrawal from school.
There are 5 open-shelf bookstores under the Circulation Department, covering various major disciplines such as literature, history, philosophy, science, engineering, medicine, and management.
The circulation department is open 57 hours a week.
5. Information Department
The Information Department includes library network system management, electronic reading, reference consultation and literature retrieval, etc., and is mainly responsible for the library’s automated network system and electronic information resources. Management and maintenance
Construct the library's homepage and carry out reference consulting services, including information retrieval services, information consulting services, organization and arrangement of network information resources, self-built databases, and libraries
Home page content management, reader consultation and training work, etc.
The Ministry of Information has a literature retrieval room (Room 227), an electronic reading room (lobby on the first floor), and a multimedia reading room (Room 216).