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About the Library
The new building of Guangxi University
Library was completed on November 20, 2002 and came into use
in 2003. It is one of the bond projects for the developments
of higher education in the western region supported by Chinese
government and sponsored by Dr. Li Ka-shing, the Chairman
of Hongkong Hutchison Whammpoa Limited. The library, with
a total building area of 32,338 square meters and 3,634 seats,
has become the biggest,and the most modern and advanced one
in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region at present.
The library has set up a high-speed local area network with
Gigabit backbone and Megabit to the desktop and completely
carried out an automation management via intranet or Internet
in respect of its all public services and business work at
present. There are more than 600 computers or terminals connected
with Campus Network, Cernet or Internet in the library. They
all achieve seamless connections with the business management
system of college and department reference rooms. Moreover,special
storage devices for digital library is as much as a capacity
of 20TB, which formed a convenient and distributed digital
information service system around the campus.
The collection held by the library (including all colleges
and department reference rooms) amounts to 4,950,000 items.
Among them are 3,020,000 printed books, 1,920,000 electronic
books and 17,000 electronic periodicals in full-text. So now
it has become a multi-discipline, multi-level and multi-carrier
library holding system covering Philosophy, Economics, Law,
Literature, Natural Sciences, Engineering Science, Agriculture,
Management Science and Education Science nine mainly subjects.
Plus, it has distinctive features and effectively supports
the disciplinary construction and talent training of Guangxi
University.
Guangxi University Library has not only almost come up to
international standards in respects of architecture, equipments,
services and management models, but also applied to practise
a brand-new idea of management -- wide space, open stack arrangements,
intensive bookshelves and general bookshelves staggered layout,
allowing to bring packages into the library and an integrated
system of collecting, lending, reading, retrieving and managing.
Furthermore, the library opens from 7:50 am to 22:30 pm continuously
every day and a total of 101 hours each week (which is far
more than 76 hours opening a week stipulated by Ministry of
Education) in order to meet the needs of readers to the utmost
degree. Therefore, there can be more than 10,000 readers at
most entering into the library a day according to statistics.
Besides the conventional lending and borrowing service for
books and periodicals, it provides many other services including
various kinds of digital information services, such as OPACS
online searching 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, new book
bulletin, CD-ROM or online database searching, multi-media
resource browsing, reference services, interlibrary loan and
document delivery, reader training and subject information
navigation, as well as deep-level information services like
sci-tech novelty retrieval, surrogating retrieval and SDI
service.
Guangxi University Library which is one of the co-construction
units of CALIS dissertation database and C-level member library
of CALIS online cataloging cooperation center, is now actively
participating in activities of literature and information
resource sharing and co-construction, and establishing a wide
range of cooperative relations with all major domestic libraries
and information centers. Additionally, it is also the place
where secretariats of Guangxi Academic Library and Information
Working Committee and Library Professional Committee under
Guangxi Association of Higher Education locate.
Now, Guangxi University Library has provided a good platform
for knowledge services to support teaching and researching
in campus, with its reasonable resource allocations, advanced
service concepts and excellent service qualities. Moreover,
it is striving to become a high-quality information center
focusing on serving and sharing information resources.
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