Office: responsible for the financial, institutional, personnel, scientific research, documents, archives, office equipment, administration and other management and business statistics of the whole library, assisting the library leaders in organizing publicity activities and guiding the administrative work of various departments and districts.
Public service department: responsible for the promotion of the overall image of the library, including the construction of cultural environment, the production of various publicity materials, the compilation and publication of Soochow Library and information communication, and the management and layout of public places; Responsible for some reception and outreach work of the library; Provide copying, printing, computer lettering and other services.
Document construction department: responsible for the purchase of paper books, newspapers and electronic publications in the library, the acceptance, classification, cataloging, processing and collection of paper documents entering the library, the publicity and reporting of collection information, and the compilation of joint catalogues; Rational use of funds, regularly submit statistical analysis materials on the use of funds to the curator; Responsible for retrospective collection of literature resources and collation of bibliographic data; Do a good job in the collection, exchange and donation of documents and the co-construction and sharing of * * with the department reference room.
Information consulting department: responsible for information research and consulting services, including trial research and utilization analysis of databases, information query services, document delivery services, sci-tech novelty retrieval services, development and utilization of online resources and resource integration, updating and maintenance of library home pages, data maintenance and updating of databases, answering various readers' inquiries, publicity and training of electronic resources, teaching of computer retrieval courses, and work of document centers in southern Jiangsu.
Sci-tech novelty retrieval station: responsible for paid services such as sci-tech novelty retrieval, retrieval and citation.
System Technology Department: responsible for the daily maintenance of the comprehensive computer management system of the library, the debugging and operation of server systems such as mirror station, homepage, mail and video, the construction and management of the library network, ensuring the smooth network of the whole library, and doing a good job in the management and technical support of modern equipment of the whole library; Responsible for the technical support of the network, facilities and related software of electronic reading rooms in various campuses of the library, and participate in related technical services such as campus informatization and library digitalization.
Digital Construction Department: responsible for the digital construction of self-built characteristic resources, and do a good job in the construction of characteristic databases such as Suzhou University's dissertations, Su Da Forum, celebrity image databases of past dynasties, Wu Culture database, JALIS characteristic resources integration, non-book resources and scholar institution database, as well as the software development related to digital projects. Formulate digital resource construction norms, and undertake the work of digital project organization, project investigation, project declaration, platform design and development, data collection, processing, release, conclusion, post-service and project improvement.
Special Collection Department of Ancient Books: responsible for the management, cataloging, reading, consulting and restoration of online ancient books, Republic of China documents and large-scale ancient book series printed and published, and carrying out related work such as digitalization, sorting, research and publication of ancient books and documents; Do a good job in the relevant work of the national key protection units of ancient books.
Reader's Service Department: responsible for the library's book and literature borrowing, including borrowing and returning, stack management, new book acceptance, reader's card management, reading room opening and management, reader consultation and reading guidance, OPAC, RFID use guidance and literature resource utilization analysis. The weekly opening time is not less than 90 hours.