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== History ==
== History ==
Shanghai Library was originally established in 1952.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=上海图书馆 – 数据库导航 |url=https://ecollection.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/databasenav/entrance/detail?mmsid=991021934095503966 |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=[[Tsinghua University Library]]}}</ref>
{{main|Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei}}
The Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei is the first modern library to have been established in Shanghai. It was established in 1847.<ref>"[http://www.library.sh.cn/Web/news/20101213/n1139775.html The Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei (The Xujiahui Library)]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151119050454/http://www.library.sh.cn/Web/news/20101213/n1139775.html Archive]). Shanghai Library. Retrieved on September 16, 2015.</ref>


In 1958, Shanghai Library merged with Shanghai Science and Technology Library (formerly Mingfu Library), Shanghai Newspaper Library (formerly Hongying Library), and Shanghai Historical Documents Library (formerly United Library), which were all of considerable size at the time, to become the second largest public library after the National Library of China.<ref>{{Cite web |title=梧桐树下，探寻上海图书馆的前世源流 |url=https://m.thepaper.cn/kuaibao_detail.jsp?contid=20134291&from=kuaibao |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=[[The Paper]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=关于上图 – 上海图书馆 |url=https://www.library.sh.cn/info/intro |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=Shanghai Library}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Xujiahui Library">King, Gail. (1997). The Xujiahui (Zikawei) Library of Shanghai. ''Libraries & Culture'', 32(4), (Fall, 1997), pp. 456-469, University of Texas Press.</ref> 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.
In November 1958, Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technical Information was established. In October 1995, Shanghai Library merged with Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technical Information to become a research-oriented public library and a comprehensive information research center.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />


== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 19:11, 9 September 2024

Shanghai Library
Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technological Information
上海图书馆
（上海科学技术情报研究所）
Map
LocationShanghai, China
Established1847 for Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei, July 1952 for Shanghai Library
Branchesn/a
Access and use
Circulationn/a
Population servedmembers of the public
Other information
Budgetn/a
DirectorChen Chao
Employeesn/a
Websitelibrary.sh.cn
Shanghai Library
Traditional Chinese上海圖書館
Simplified Chinese上海图书馆
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShànghǎi Túshūguǎn
Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technological Information
Traditional Chinese上海科學技術情報研究所
Simplified Chinese上海科学技术情报研究所
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShànghǎi Kēxué Jìshù Qíngbào Yánjiūsuǒ

The Shanghai Library (with a second name as the Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technological Information) is the municipal public library of Shanghai City, China. It is owned by the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] The library is one of the largest library in the world. Its main building is in Xuhui, with a branch hall in Pudong.[2]

At 24 stories and 348 feet (106 m) tall, the library's main building is the second tallest library in the world after the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta.[3]

History

Shanghai Library was originally established in 1952.[4]

In 1958, Shanghai Library merged with Shanghai Science and Technology Library (formerly Mingfu Library), Shanghai Newspaper Library (formerly Hongying Library), and Shanghai Historical Documents Library (formerly United Library), which were all of considerable size at the time, to become the second largest public library after the National Library of China.[5][6]

In November 1958, Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technical Information was established. In October 1995, Shanghai Library merged with Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technical Information to become a research-oriented public library and a comprehensive information research center.[4][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "上海图书馆（上海科学技术情报研究所）公开招聘工作人员公告 Shanghai Library (Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technical Information) Open Recruitment Announcement". 上海市人力资源和社会保障局 Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  2. ^ "上海图书馆_图书馆_上海市文化和旅游局". whlyj.sh.gov.cn. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  3. ^ "Shanghai Library at Emporis.com". Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved 2009-01-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ a b "上海图书馆 – 数据库导航". Tsinghua University Library. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  5. ^ "梧桐树下，探寻上海图书馆的前世源流". The Paper. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  6. ^ a b "关于上图 – 上海图书馆". Shanghai Library. Retrieved 2024-09-09.

Further reading

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