1944 the library group under the academic affairs office of the school was officially renamed as a library and restructured into a public institution directly under the school, with more than 8,500 books.
1954, the school library was officially completed, with a construction area of 2,696 square meters and a collection of more than 40,000 books.
1963 In July, the school held a meeting of the book committee. Under the auspices of Vice President Yuan Dunli, we discussed nine rules and regulations, including the Organizational Rules of Gansu Normal University Library Committee (Draft). These rules and regulations are formulated on the basis of summing up years of library experience, which has played a promoting role in strengthening book management and improving library service efficiency.
On August 1978 and 12, the Ministry of Education issued a notice to strengthen the work of books and materials in colleges and universities, expand the borrowing scope of libraries, adjust opening hours, improve service quality, and make specific provisions on team building and equipment renewal. Since the reform and opening up, the funds for school books have been kept at about 5% of the funds for running schools. Focus on procurement projects and allocate special funds.
1984, a new library connecting the north and south of the old library was built, with a construction area of 68 18 square meters and a collection of 165438+ 10,000 volumes (including books in reference rooms of various departments), which is 30 times of the collection before liberation. After 1984, the library also undertook the teaching task, offering courses such as "how to use reference books" and "document retrieval" for some liberal arts majors, and offering courses on library science and library information for Night University and Jincheng United University respectively.
1June, 986, in order to strengthen the library and information work and give full play to the functions of the library, the school set up a book working Committee, with President Bai Guangbi as the chairman.
1987 10 Connecticut state central university, which has established inter-school relations with the school, presented four sets of large-scale original English books to the school: Encyclopedia Britannica (Volume ***33), Webster's Third New International English Dictionary and Dictionary of Seven Languages (Volume **3) and Compton Encyclopedia and its factual index.
From 1990, according to the comprehensive survey of literature resources in China and Gansu province, the total amount of library literature ranks first in Gansu universities and ranks second in Gansu province 10 literature collection units. Through the analysis and evaluation of experts and educational institutions, it is confirmed that the library is a provincial-level document resource collection unit, and it has the research and decision-making support capabilities in nine disciplines, including psychology, education, Chinese, China literature, ancient history of China, modern history of China, human geography, physical geography and botany.
1996, the school invested 400,000 yuan to build a library computer management network, selected ILAS library automation integrated management system developed by Shenzhen Library, completed the construction of bibliographic database, realized the automatic management of book acquisition, cataloging, circulation and lending, and started the construction of retrospective bibliographic database in reference rooms of various colleges.
1September, 1997, the first electronic document retrieval room in the library was officially built, equipped with 12 Lenovo 586 computers, providing full-text CD retrieval, printing and multimedia CD-ROM-assisted learning services for all teachers and students.
1999 Shaw Library, with a building area of 5,495 square meters, was built with a donation of HK$ 4 million from Sir Run Run Shaw, the chairman of Shaw Film and Television Co., Ltd., a famous patriot, and a contribution of140,000 yuan from the Gansu Provincial People's Government and the school.
1999, the library website was completed and used, and the information service and publicity based on the internet were realized for the first time.
In 2000, the school renovated and expanded the 54-year-old and 84-year-old libraries, reformed the traditional closed stack lending model, and implemented the integrated service management model of open-shelf lending, warehousing and reading.
In 2000, the library replaced ILAS automation integrated management system with TOTALS II library automation system developed by Taiwan Province Communication Technology Company, and established an online public catalog query (OPAC) system based on WEB, which opened the online query service of bibliographic information for the first time.
In 2000, Tsinghua Tongfang "China Academic Journal (CNKI) Mirror Site" was established, and the library network information platform represented by it continued to develop and improve, realizing the library information service mode of all teachers and students accessing electronic literature resources online through the network.
In May, 20001year, the library built the "Northwest Normal University Library", which collected and displayed more than 400 important works of scholars and alumni since the establishment of Northwest Normal University. The Library aims to carry forward the fine tradition of "diligence, truth-seeking, dedication and innovation" in Northwest Normal University, and comprehensively show the development course and academic research level of scholars who advocate academics and pursue Excellence in Northwest Normal University.
In 2002, the library established the mirror site of Superstar Digital Library, with 230,000 kinds of electronic books. The school welcomed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education, and Minister of Education Chen Zhili came to inspect and guide the work.
In 2007, the library upgraded and replaced the software and hardware system of business automation management, and switched to Jiangsu Huiwen LIBsys, realizing the information cataloging of important businesses such as periodicals and ancient books. Complete the docking between the library business system and the campus one-card system, and realize the "one-card" book borrowing mode.
In 2008, Library 12 kinds of rare ancient books were selected into the first batch of national rare ancient books list, ranking second in Gansu Province, and obtained the certificate of National Rare Ancient Books List issued by the Ministry of Culture.
In 2008, in order to improve the efficiency of cataloging, the method of book classification and cataloging was reformed, and the book classification number was automatically generated by Huiwen book management system by using the Standard of Book Selection for Ordinary Chinese Authors edited by Liu Xiangsheng.
In 2009, after our library 12 kinds of ancient books were selected into the first batch of national precious ancient books list in 2008, nine kinds of ancient books were selected into the second batch of national precious ancient books list with the approval of the State Council, and certificates were issued by the Ministry of Culture.
In 2009, the library successfully applied for two national social science fund projects for the first time, which achieved a breakthrough in the application of such projects by university libraries in our province.
In 2009, as a member of the Library Committee of Gansu University, he successfully held the 2009 working meeting of the Library Committee of Gansu University.
20 12 1 month, the new campus library was completed, with 7 floors in the main building and a total construction area of 40,000 square meters. The original 54-year museum was handed over to the school and used by the editorial department of the journal; 1984 The original museum was converted into a school museum and a school history museum. The library re-coordinates the book layout of the existing new and old buildings and implements the overall relocation of books in the library; From 2065438 to September 2002, the internal functional layout planning and book arrangement of the new campus library were successfully completed and officially opened to readers.
On April 20 13, the library and Zhixing College of Northwest Normal University signed an agreement on library integration, sharing and cooperation. More than 5,000 square meters of 1-2 floors of the new campus library are put under the use of Zhixing College Library, and the two libraries have formed a management and operation mode of "integration and sharing", with relatively independent collection resources and shared library space and reader lending services.
2065438+In March 2004, the new campus library was fully opened, 7 days a week. The library opens a new opening schedule.