Guangzhou Library at 4:00 p.m. on January 2, 2022. On the same day, the exhibition of achievements of "The Wind is Hanging on the Sails - 40 Years of Guangzhou Library" was launched in Guangtu. Nandu photographed by Jin Dongfang
"When the Guangzhou Library opened in 1982, it determined the principle of 'serving the library, opening the library', and in the past 40 years, we have not forgotten our original intention, kept in mind the mission, and served more than 130 million Guangzhou citizens, and at present, the registered readers of Guangzhou Library alone exceed 2.4 million, which is the pride of our librarians and the pride of Guangzhou citizens."
On January 2nd, at the opening ceremony of the "Wind is Hanging on the Sails - 40 Years of Guangzhou Library" exhibition held by Guangzhou Library, Director Fang Jiazhong of Guangzhou Library announced to the readers the greatest achievement of Guangzhou Library in the past 40 years.
Guangzhou Library during the Guangzhou Light Festival in November 2015. Guangzhou Library New Library is one of the key construction projects and cultural projects of Guangzhou, located in the center of Guangzhou New Town, Huacheng Square with the reputation of "urban living room", which was established in 2004, laid the foundation stone in 2006, opened on a trial basis on December 28, 2012, and fully opened on June 23, 2013. Nandu shooter Qiu Shibao photographed
On January 2, 1982, the Guangzhou Library (XinghuoYuan Library) located on Zhongshan 4th Road was officially opened, ending the 27-year history of Guangzhou without a municipal public library.
After 40 years, There are now 313 public libraries in Guangzhou, and 176 streets and towns in the city have achieved 100% full coverage of public libraries, and all of them have achieved universal borrowing and repayment. Since 2014, Guangzhou Library has ranked first in the national library in terms of basic service volume for six consecutive years, of which more than 50,000 readers entered the library on August 5, 2018 alone, setting a record for the highest number of single-day admissions to public libraries in cities in China, and Guangzhou Library is known as the busiest library in the world. In November this year, guangzhou library achieved more than 2.4 million registered readers.
On March 11, 2021, kapok was in full bloom in front of the old Guangzhou Library (now the Guangzhou Children's Library) on Zhongshan 4th Road. Nandu photographed by Lu Jiansheng
When the library opened in 1982, the old library located in Zhongshan 4th Road was the first large-scale cultural facility newly built in Guangzhou after the reform and opening up, and today the new museum in Zhujiang New Town is also the first construction project in the climax of the new round of cultural facilities construction in Guangzhou after entering the new century, with a total investment of 1.3 billion yuan and an area of 100,000 square meters, which is still the largest urban public library in the world with a single construction area, standing on the north bank of the Pearl River with the image of "beautiful books on the edge of the Pearl River", becoming a beautiful landscape of Guangzhou's urban living room.
During the National Day in 2018, the citizens of Guangzhou Library read and studied. Nandu photographed by Liang Yuxing
The purchase cost of Guangzhou Library increased from 187,000 yuan in 1982 to 59 million yuan in 2019, and the per capita new books in the city reached 0.2 volumes (pieces), meeting the standards stipulated in the Guangzhou Public Library Regulations. Correspondingly, the collection resources of Guangzhou Library have increased from 140,000 volumes when the library opened in 1982 to more than 10 million volumes in 2019, ranking third among public libraries in China.
In December 2021, Guangzhou Library won the title of "National Advanced Collective of Culture and Tourism System", and is the only unit in the library industry in Guangdong Province to receive this honor.
On May 17, 2020, in the aisle of a bookshelf in the Guangzhou Library, a reader walked and read a book. Nandu photographer Chen Huixian photographed
On the afternoon of January 2, 2022, a corner of the Guangzhou Library. Nandu photographed by Jin Dongfang
In the past 40 years, Guangzhou Library has set more than 25 leading records in the national library industry: taking the lead in opening the book shelf for reading, taking the lead in opening up the issuance of library cards, setting up the country's first public computer library, setting up the country's first electronic reading room for the blind, and taking the lead in implementing deposit-free registration, etc., and achieving a new level of public welfare and equal service in the library industry in the field of public cultural services.
Guangzhou Library, as the central library of Guangzhou Public Library, also actively promotes the construction of Guangzhou's "Library City", taking the lead in building the main branch library system of the central library in the country in 2020, formulating unified logos and service specifications, and guangzhou's "Library City" has basically taken shape.
(Text: Nandu reporter Xu Xiaolei)
On May 17, 2020, at the Guangzhou Library, citizens used self-service disinfection cabinets to disinfect borrowed books. Nandu photographer Chen Huixian photographed
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