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Nanjing Library, located in Xuanwu District, Nanjing, is the third largest library in China, the fourth largest library in Asia, a provincial public library in Jiangsu Province, the first batch of national key protection units of ancient books, a national first-class library and a document resource guarantee center in Jiangsu Province.
Nanjing Library, formerly known as Jiangnan Library, was founded in 1907 (thirty-three years of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty) and is the first public library in China. 1927 changed to National Central University Library of Chinese Studies; 1933 the national government established the national central library; 1952 the sinology library and the former central library merged into the Nanjing library; In 2007, the new Nanjing Library was completed and fully opened.
Official website information of the library in September 20 18 shows that the library has a building area of about 78,000 square meters, with 20 reading rooms and more than 4,000 reading seats, with a total collection of more than 6,543,802,000 books, including 6,543,806 ancient books, including 6,543,804 rare books.
There are 700,000 kinds of literature in the Republic of China, and 524 kinds have been selected into the national precious ancient books list. Nanjing Library has 16 departments and 53 1 employees. Jing You Libuyun, a newly collected block-printed edition of the Northern Song Dynasty in Nanjing Library, is an important discovery in recent years.
By the end of 20 16, Nanjing Library had 53 1 staff, including 487 professionals, 8 senior titles, 82 deputy senior titles and 69 intermediate titles.