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Shanghai Library

Public library in Shanghai, China

Shanghai Library
Location	Shanghai, China
Established	1847 for Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei, July 1952 for Shanghai Library
Branches	n/a
Access and use
Circulation	n/a
Population served	members of the public
Other information
Budget	n/a
Director	Chen Chao
Employees	n/a
Website	old.library.sh.cn/web/index.html

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The Shanghai Library (Chinese: 上海图书馆; pinyin: Shànghǎi Túshūguǎn), which also houses the Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technological Information, is the municipal library of Shanghai, China. It is the largest library in China and the third-largest library in the world. At 24 stories and 348 feet (106 m) tall, it is the second tallest library in the world after the National Library of IndonesiainJakarta, as well as one of the largest.^[1] The building has a tower that resembles a lighthouse.

The Library is located at 1557 Huaihai Zhong Lu, Xuhui District, Shanghai.

History[edit]

The Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei is the first modern library to have been established in Shanghai. It was established in 1847.^[2]

In 1925, Shanghai East Library, the first library run by Chinese, was opened. In 1950, the Shanghai Cultural Heritage Managing Committee launched a campaign to collect books and after about a year, the collection grew to more than 200,000 volumes. Many scholars and celebrities contributed and some of them made large donations. The committee also started to buy books from abroad. After the mission schools and scientific establishments had been taken over by the Chinese government, the last foreign Jesuits left Xujiahui in 1951.^[3] The Xujiahui Library, along with other libraries formerly run by foreign groups, was placed under the control of the Shanghai Municipal Library, which had been established on July 22, 1952. This was the first large municipal public library in Shanghai. Marked the Shanghai library career in the founding of new China has taken a historic step. The library had a collection of more than 700,000 volumes. the Shanghai Municipal Library of Historical Documents (formerly known as Shanghai private Hezhong library founded in 1939 by Jingkui Ye and Yuanji Zhang), The Xujiahui Library (Bibliotheca Zikawei), which reopened in 1977, also became a branch of the Shanghai Library. It was the second largest comprehensive public library in China, in terms of collection, services, and professional expertise. In October 1995, the Shanghai library merged with the Shanghai Institute of science and technology information, and became the first provincial (city) level library and information association.

See also[edit]

• National first-class library
• Libraries in the People's Republic of China

• National Library of China

• Chinese Library Classification (CLC)
• Archives in the People's Republic of China
• Pudong Library
• Ningbo Library

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• David H. Stam, ed. (2001). International Dictionary of Library Histories. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 1579582443.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shanghai Library.

• Official website
• Brief History
• Shanghai Library

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