The history of Lanzhou University Library can be traced back to 1909. 19 13 Guanchengtang left by Gong Yuan in Qing Dynasty was used as a library and Zhigongtang as a reading room. After 1946, an independent library named Jishitang was built on the second floor, with an area of 65438+. 1May, 1998, Shaw donated money and the Ministry of Education approved the expansion of the library of Panxuan Road Campus, with an area of 2 1000 square meters. In addition, the library of Lanzhou Medical College merged in June 2004 and the library of Yuzhong Campus opened in September 2005 are 100 square meters. Unicorn system produced by American Sirsi company integrates collection, lending, reading and management, which meets the requirements of multi-campus libraries. An automated integrated system, a CD-ROM library system and an Internet server have been built. There are nearly 2,000 information nodes in the library, which has laid a good foundation for digital storage, network service and modern management of information resources. The medical library, campus library and central library implement the management mode of "unified management and business extension" and are equipped with curators. At present, the whole library has editorial department, information technology department, circulation department, periodical reading department, multimedia resource service department, novelty retrieval center (literature retrieval teaching and research department), party and government comprehensive office and other business departments (rooms).

The library of Lanzhou University has always adhered to the principle of "taking service as the purpose, seeking a way out for modernization and seeking benefits from management", and established the goal of building the library of Lanzhou University into a research library and a postgraduate literature retrieval center, the library of Yuzhong Campus into a learning library, and the medical library into a professional library. By the end of 2004, there were 2.6 million paper documents, more than 2,000 kinds of audio-visual materials, and more than 5,000 kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals were ordered every year. Literature collection is relatively complete and has its own characteristics in the collection of ancient literature and history books, natural sciences, medicine and authoritative retrieval periodicals in foreign languages. There are photocopies of Gus Quan Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu There are nearly 200 kinds of rare books, such as Huang Ming Shi Jingwen. It covers eleven disciplines including science, engineering, agriculture, literature, history, classics, philosophy, law, teaching, management and medicine. In recent years, with the rapid development of information technology and the wide application of modern technology in libraries, a large number of domestic and foreign CD-ROM databases and network databases have been purchased, and self-built characteristic databases can provide 24-hour online service; There are more than 4,000 seats for readers, and advanced facilities such as electronic reading room, computer training room, audio-visual reference room, multi-functional conference room and lecture hall have added new ways and places for readers to use literature information.

The library of Lanzhou University attaches importance to continuously improving the professional quality of staff and scientific management, and has achieved a new leap in management level. A team management model with solid foundation work, perfect system and encouraging innovation has been formed. After several years' efforts, among the existing staff of 1 17, their professional titles, educational background, age and knowledge structure have been obviously improved. Among them, 12 professional technicians have college education or above, and more than 84% of the staff have college education or above, which has initially formed a more reasonable professional echelon, meeting the needs of high-level research universities to provide literature information services for teaching and research. In recent years, librarians have taken the opportunity of "2 1 1 project" construction and new library construction to actively carry out research on the modernization model of university libraries in the west, carry out research on the reform of management service model in combination with modernization goals, and carry out research on the teaching content reform and information literacy education of literature retrieval course in combination with literature retrieval course teaching and novelty retrieval consultation of scientific and technological achievements. At the same time, we seriously study and explore the construction of the new central library and Yuzhong campus library as the important contents of building a first-class university library, and pay attention to the perfect unity of traditional modeling, campus humanistic environment and advanced information service functions, which provides a strong theoretical guarantee for library construction and development and ensures the realization of library modernization goals. According to incomplete statistics, since 1990, the staff of our library have published more than 300 papers and translations on library and information science, literature, history, politics and law in some domestic journals. Some research results are quite influential in the field of library and information science, and the teaching of medical literature retrieval and the compilation of teaching materials are quite influential inside and outside the province. Some authors are listed as key authors by authoritative core journals in China. It has won many scientific research projects from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Provincial Department of Education and schools. Among them, the landmark achievement of Lanzhou University's 2 1 1 project, Research and Practice of Modernization Construction of University Libraries in Western China, won the first prize of teaching achievement in Gansu Province and the second prize of national teaching achievement. In recent years, it has undertaken the "Dunhuang Studies Database" (Grade A) and "Geoscience Navigation Database" in the CALIS project of the Ministry of Education, and is actively applying for the construction of CALIS provincial center. These scientific research and business activities have played a positive role in improving the quality of personnel and promoting the innovation of library information service.