With a construction area of about 115,000 square meters, the East Library of Shanghai Library is the largest library in China, with 7 floors above ground and 2 floors underground, which can provide nearly 6,000 seats after opening, and the annual reception of readers can reach 4 million people.
On the afternoon of January 14, the reporter walked into this milky white building located in the forest enclosed by Yingchun Road, Hehuan Road, Jinxiu Road and Century Avenue in Pudong New Area. The upcoming "Reading Hall", in addition to "good looking", is also a hidden paradise for music enthusiasts.
The following three floors are not to be missed –
On the basement floor of the East Building, the four function halls are divided by red, yellow, blue and green. Among them, the Red Hall is functionally positioned to hold chamber music performances and appreciation activities. In terms of space design, the descending board provides the possibility for immersive music performance forms; in graphic design, the stepped seating form surrounded by three sides, the stage sinks to provide the audience with a better performance perception; on the decorative materials, the wood-colored grille arranged in the wall strip is arranged with lighting to render a soft and warm atmosphere of the place.
The "Oriental College" area on the second floor will be openly tested for the first time this weekend for the readers of the "Happy Listening and Enjoying" activity. The site set up Chopin Hall, Verdi Hall, Debussy Hall, Beethoven Hall, Armstrong Hall, Cramer Hall, Bach Hall, Mendelssohn Hall and other guided rooms, invited a number of well-known HIFI brands: T+A, PIEGA, ARCAM, Acapella, BAT, ESTELON, FOCAL, Fanghua, JBL, LUMIN, Lumley Reference, Swiss Voice, SIM2, Soulnote, Weishi, etc. More than 40 classical music guided tours and two keynote lectures are open to pre-book readers.
Based on the concept of "Big Reading", "Happy Listening and Enjoying" is jointly planned by Shanghai Library and Dianyi Audio-Visual Promotion Agency to create a new platform for the whole people to immerse themselves in reading experience. Under the guidance of the concept of "promoting reading with music and popularizing music with reading", it integrates "one song, one set of audio, one book", and brings dozens of immersive music reading theme activities including high-end audio appreciation every year. The million-dollar HIFI audio equipment will be launched in the East Pavilion above, allowing readers to become the first "early adopters".
One of the five-storey theme pavilions, the "Music Theme Pavilion", covers an area of about 1,000 square meters, presenting an inverted "product" font layout, which is divided into a reading area, an exhibition area and an activity area, and the dynamic and static are separated. The reading area provides about 5,000 books and reference books on Chinese and foreign music themes, nearly 9,000 musical scores, and more than 10 kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals, covering music theory knowledge, music career, theory and performance method of ethnic and Western musical instruments, appreciation of musical works, artist biography, music physics and equipment technology knowledge, music technology application and many other topics. This year marks the 220th anniversary of the birth of Haydn, the founder of the Viennese Classical School, and the first exhibition in the exhibition area has been identified as a Haydn-themed exhibition.
The activity area has 4 independent special service spaces, namely the audio and video appreciation room, the music appreciation room, the music creation room and the performance recording room. Readers can not only enjoy cinema-level audiovisual appreciation, high-fidelity HIFI music experience, but also be able to create and record music through professional music creation software.
The above figure will also launch the library collection record knowledge base, provide digital records and personalized services, reveal the record resources in the collection from multiple dimensions such as people, institutions, themes, and time, and support users to consult, explore and appreciate excellent tracks and understand the knowledge behind the records.
Why does the Shangtu East Library, which is positioned as a new generation of intelligent composite libraries, pay attention to music services? Chen Chao, director of Shanghai Library, introduced: First, based on the large number of music literature and music content resources accumulated in the development process of the above picture, the above picture includes more than 200,000 old records in the collection, including important works in various periods after the birth of China's record industry in Shanghai; the second is based on the advancement of the concept of "reading", in the era of deep information reading, big data, all media and even the latest meta-universe concept bring revolution to human reading activities, the five senses can be "read", audio-visual, exhibition, lecture have become "reading" The third is based on the history and future of Shanghai, a city with a strong musical foundation, to cultivate more music population and reading population, so that music can add color to a better life.
"In the transformation from paper to digital reading, the content that can be read is constantly expanding, prompting libraries around the world to think about the transformation proposition of how to provide intelligent services in the intelligent physical and digital space; and in the genes of an international cultural metropolis, the proportion of music in the demand for a better life is getting higher and higher." Chen Chao said that improving people's cultural literacy is the mission undertaken by libraries for hundreds of years, today, the connotation of cultural literacy is not limited to basic reading and writing, how to improve the public's art, science, information literacy through reading, so that art, science, information means feed back to the promotion of reading, Shanghai Library will build a platform to attract more social resources to participate in reading services, in a "people's library" "reading people, reading the city, reading the world" "reading, reading art, reading technology."