1in the spring of 932, the Agricultural College of (Shanghai) University for Nationalities closed down on the orders of the National Government. At an appropriate time, the Central Political Conference adopted a preliminary plan for the construction of special education in northwest China, that is, the farm and some books and instruments of the Agricultural College of Labor University were allocated to the National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College. Due to the loss in transit, only 45 1 book handed over by the library of National University of Labor (Shanghai) and its Agricultural College was initially accepted.
1935 In August, Mr. Li Yizhi moved the special water conservancy course he founded in Shaanxi Provincial High School (xi 'an) in 1932 to the National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College and brought back a batch of books and periodicals.
65438-0936, National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College officially enrolled students, with Professor Xin Shuzhi as the principal. During his tenure as principal, there was a saying of "three treasures". Mainly to grasp three things: first, hire a well-known professor; Second, enrich books and instruments; Third, find a way out for students after graduation. At the beginning of the school, the funds were sufficient, and Professor Xin Shuzhi paid more attention to saving money. Most of the money is spent on books and musical instruments. Once, I personally went to Beiping to buy books and instruments at that time, and the cost was as high as 100,000 yuan.
On July 1936, the library was officially opened. The school appointed Mr. Huang Lianqin as the librarian and five other employees. At the same time, the reading and lending rules of the library were published in the first issue of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technology. At that time, there were only 108 faculty members,10/students.
In the same year, the school established the Library Committee and the Procurement Committee, and Huang Lianqin also served as a member for two terms. In February of the same year, the number of library staff reached 9. The library covers an area of 56 1 m2, with a stack room and two reading rooms.
1937 The teaching building of Northwest A&F College (formerly Agricultural College Building) was completed, and the library was moved to the southeast corner of the first floor, which greatly increased the construction area.
From 65438 to 0938, the library received 87 Chinese books handed over by the former Xi Temporary University. During this period, the library not only purchased some books, but also received a batch of books presented by President Xin Shuzhi and professors and scholars such as Shi Shenghan, Fu Sinian and Gu Jiegang. In order to avoid war damage, the school moved some important books to Mianxian County in southern Shaanxi for storage.
1In April, 939, the National Northwest College of Agriculture and Forestry merged with the Agricultural College of National Northwest United University and the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department of Agricultural College of Henan University to form the National Northwest Agricultural College, with about 250 faculty members. With the establishment of National Northwest Agricultural College, the library was renamed as National Northwest Agricultural College Library. At that time, there was a library of books 15000 volumes and a 60-seat mixed reading room, as well as a library of back issues and thread-bound books. In addition, the library has also purchased a full set of Chinese Weekly, the first and second episodes of Oriental Magazine and Wan You Library, and one of the four collections is being edited. At this time, the library has collected 40073 books.
During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the school was in an unstable state for a long time, and the staff of the library changed frequently, and the work made no progress. At that time, although some anti-Japanese propaganda books were received and purchased, they were often imprisoned by "blocking" and "sealing up". During the period of 1940- 194 1, the Japanese aggressors bombed the school three times, killing and injuring many students. The agricultural college building where the library is located (today's teaching building No.3) has also been shot many times, and some buildings have been damaged to a considerable extent.
From 1945 to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the library has accepted three batches of books donated by foreign countries and supplemented several periodicals that were lacking during the Anti-Japanese War.
On May 20th, 1949, the school was liberated. At this time, the library has 4 1707 volumes, of which 1676 volumes are bound.
Before the founding of New China, the library, as the pillar of the school's teaching and scientific research, experienced the harassment of war, but with the joint efforts of teachers and students, the books and materials in the library were completely preserved and managed scientifically. For example, Dewey Decimal Classification and China Decimal Classification have created better conditions for the future development of libraries. The development of the library in this period is mainly manifested in the following aspects: First, the number of collected documents has increased sharply, and the total number of collected documents in 1978 has exceeded 520,000, which is three times higher than that in 1949; Second, the role and position of the library as an academic institution serving the teaching and scientific research of the school have been clarified, and at the same time, the library business organization has been established and improved, and various management systems have been formulated; Third, the standardized management of library basic business has been realized, the business and service have been deepened and the scope has been expanded; Fourthly, the establishment of independent library has created conditions for comprehensively improving the library's document support ability. Although the library stagnated during the period of 1966- 1970, the general trend of the library's continuous development and growth has not fundamentally changed. Rapid Development Stage (1950- 1966) After the founding of New China, with the recovery and development of the national economy and the increasing investment in higher education, domestic universities have also developed rapidly. At the beginning of liberation, there were only 608 faculty members in Northwest Agricultural College. By the end of 1966, the number of faculty members had grown to 1 169. The number of students in school increased from 585 in the early days of liberation to 265,438+094 in the early 1960s.
With the rapid expansion of the school scale, the library has entered the first period of rapid development. 1956 total collection of books 170000 volumes; At 196 1, the total collection reached more than 258,000 volumes; 1965, the total collection of books reached more than 3 10000 volumes, and the staff of the whole library increased from 6 in the early days of liberation to 32.
At the same time, the library's business management and theoretical research have also made great progress. Among them, Book Classification, edited and published by Fan Shiwei, a library in the 1950s, has a certain influence in the domestic library circle. The List of Chinese Pinyin Authors (that is, the List of copybook Authors) has been adopted by some libraries inside and outside the province. From 65438 to 0954, Dean Xin Shuzhi initiated and invited more than ten teachers to participate, and established the "Motherland Agricultural Heritage Research Group" in the library, which was later renamed as "Ancient Agricultural Research Room", and used a batch of ancient agricultural literature resources in the library to carry out agricultural history research. In addition, the library's bibliographic index in the 1960s also achieved remarkable service results.
195 1 in may, the library was set up 1 the librarian managed the library affairs, 1 the chief librarian assisted the librarian in handling the library affairs. There are four parts: cataloging, cashier, reading and periodicals, which are handled by five librarians and two workers respectively. There is 1 stack; There are 1 mixed reading rooms, which are connected with the stacks and display 200 kinds of periodicals; Reference room 1 unit, with 2000 books; There are periodical and newspaper storage rooms 1 each, and public newspaper reading rooms 1 each.
1956 according to the spirit of the national symposium on library work in colleges and universities and the relevant regulations of the Ministry of education, the school strengthened its leadership over the library and changed the original library from the academic affairs office to the vice president. 1957 1, the school decided to change the library into a department-level unit directly led by the vice president, and vice president Wang Zhenhua served as a librarian. The position and role of library in school teaching and scientific research has been established and continues to this day.
65438-0957, the school formally established the Library Committee. The members of the Library Committee are mostly composed of well-known experts and professors at that time, and the Committee is mainly responsible for major issues such as library development and construction.
In the same year, an office was set up in the library. There are three groups of interview, cataloging and circulation reading under the office, as well as reference book reading room, periodical reading room, political book reading room, teacher reading room, microfilm reading room and open-shelf borrowing of literary books. The library has formulated some basic rules and regulations, such as book lending rules, reading rules in reading rooms and the use of periodicals and student reference books. At the same time, the school decided to change the previous allocation of book funds by department into unified management and use by the library.
/kloc-in the winter of 0/964, the new library was completed, and Mr. Guo Moruo, then president of China Academy of Sciences, personally wrote the name of the library. Located in the center of the campus, the new building consists of three parts: the main building, the side building and the annex building, with a total area of 865,438+000 square meters. With the completion and use of the new building, the conditions of the embassy premises have been greatly improved, and the area has increased by 15 times compared with that before liberation. All the facilities of the museum have been updated, and the number of staff has increased to 23. The new library has 10 professional reading rooms, 3 general reading rooms and 870 reading seats. At the beginning of 1965, all the libraries moved into the new library, and the opening ceremony was held on February 28th. Chen Wuyu, secretary of the Party Committee of the College, gave important instructions on the future work of the library at the opening ceremony. In order to improve teachers' reading and learning environment, the school equipped all the teachers' reading rooms in the new building with leather soft chairs, which was the best configuration for office study in the whole college at that time. The stagnant stage (1966- 1970) started with the 1966 Cultural Revolution, which brought disaster to the country and inevitably affected the library. In the early days of the "Cultural Revolution", except for 1 veteran comrades, most of the others were sent to the May 7th cadre school to take part in labor. Fortunately, because the library is an independent building, it has not been greatly impacted, and books, periodicals, materials and other collection resources are well preserved. At the stage of recovery and development (197 1- 1978), according to the instructions of 197 1 Central Publishing Forum and National Education Conference, library staff returned from May 7th Cadre School one after another. The main task of library work in this period is to sort out and resume professional work, and it has become one of the university libraries that resumed library work earlier in China.
197 1 year, in order to welcome the arrival of the first batch of new students of workers, peasants and soldiers, the library sorted out more than 300,000 books, and the former Shaanxi University of Technology received more than 80,000 books. At the same time, some rules and regulations were revised, seven reading rooms were arranged, the ordering and collection of books and periodicals were resumed, and all the preparations for the resumption of opening were completed. From 1974 to 1976, Chaonong (Chaoyang Agricultural College) started school, and the library set up an off-campus teaching base working group to deliver books to off-campus bases and stations.
1978, the library adjusted its internal organization, and the publicity and reporting group was changed to the publicity and consulting group; Periodical reading room is under the management of newspaper group; The "science and technology reference room" of the scientific research department is placed under the unified leadership of the library; The internal books are managed by the circulation group instead. At the same time, foreign periodical reading rooms will be added and open-shelf reading will be implemented; Increase consulting projects, and set up special personnel to be responsible for organizing answering questions and searching documents on behalf of others. At the same time, it also founded and edited information periodicals such as Science and Technology Information Reference, Foreign Science and Technology Information, Science and Technology Information and Book Communication. At the same time, the publication of China Library Classification marks the beginning of the standardization of library services in China. Libraries use the China Library Classification to classify Chinese and foreign books and materials, and gradually realize the standardized management of various business work, which has developed rapidly.
1974 From April to May, the library conducted a comprehensive revision and inspection of the List of Authors of Chinese Pinyin. At that time, there were many requirements from libraries inside and outside the province, so it was printed and sent to more than 320 libraries across the country, which had a great influence among peers in the country. During this period, due to the rapid recovery of library work, the service for readers has been greatly expanded and achieved remarkable results, which was interviewed by CCTV and reported by Guangming Daily. Shaanxi Daily reported the library's spirit of "enthusiastic service, consulting and solving problems, positioning reading and reading new books" with the title of "Paving the way for teaching and scientific research-recording the library of Northwest Agricultural College". After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, all kinds of business work in the library has been carried out in an all-round way, and scientific and technological information service has become an important part of library work, and remarkable achievements have been made in agricultural scientific and technological literature retrieval service and teaching. The reform of library management and the application of automation technology have become the main characteristics of library development in this period.
1, comprehensively promote the reform of management system and operation mechanism.
65438-0979, Northwest Agricultural College was listed as a national key institution of higher learning. During this period, the school's work centered on teaching and scientific research quickly recovered and developed. According to the spirit of "Opinions on Strengthening the Work of Books and Materials in Colleges and Universities" issued by the Ministry of Education, the library has carried out reforms to improve the decision-making mechanism of the library and the establishment system of departments.
1July, 979, the library was composed of three rooms and three groups, namely, office (including propaganda and consultation work), editing group, circulation group, newspaper group, information reference room and ancient agriculture research room. The director of each room is appointed by the school party Committee and is a department-level cadre in the school.
1982 the school resumed the establishment of the library Committee as an advisory body for the information work of the school library. Members of the Committee include the dean in charge of library work, the librarian, the director of the office and the deputy director or associate professor of the department concerned about library work. 1987 1 1, the new library and information Committee of our school was established. Professor Zhang Yue is the chairman and Deputy Director Feng Shiliang is the secretary.
With the deepening of school education reform and the continuous improvement of teaching quality and scientific research level, in order to meet the needs of the development of the situation, the library has further accelerated the pace of reform from 1987, and the library management thought and service concept have undergone fundamental changes. The personnel management system with the post responsibility system as the core has been formed, which has promoted the development of various work in the library; From 65438 to 0987, the school carried out various personnel deployment. In order to meet the needs of this situation, the library changed the previous business group (room) into a department to centrally manage similar businesses. In addition to the office, there are editing department, circulation reading department, periodical department, information consulting department, technology department and other offices, and the information consulting department has an agricultural science and technology information research room. The appointment system of directors and deputy directors of all ministries and departments was changed from the school appointment system to the curator appointment system. In the same year, with the approval of the school, as a pilot unit, the two-way labor optimization combination was tried out, and the library hired directors and deputy directors of various business departments to implement quota, quota, responsibility, quota and quota, and formulated the post responsibilities and assessment methods of the library.
From1May, 1997, the library began to fully implement the post responsibility system management, and further improved the assessment, reward and punishment regulations. After adjustment, the departments and offices are editing department, distribution department, periodical department, document information service department, technology department and office. In addition, through democratic recommendation, leadership assessment, exchange and competition, job selection and other forms, 28 examinations were conducted for 7 positions, and more than 20 jobs were adjusted. The scope of adjustment basically involves all posts in the whole library. Through the implementation of a series of reform measures, the enthusiasm of employees was greatly mobilized. With the increase of workload and the decrease of personnel, the overall management level and service quality of the library have been obviously improved.
2. Using modern electronic information technology to promote library modernization.
During this period, the service centered on the application of computer technology was gradually developed, which accelerated the application process of modern technology in libraries.
198 1- 1987, the library purchased a batch of modern technical equipment with the loan of the first phase of the World Bank education project, and carried out the research work of the library management system. 1February, 1987, entrusted by the Science and Technology Information Branch of China Agricultural Society, our library undertook the first national seminar on the construction of agricultural information electronic computer system. More than 40 responsible comrades, including the Information Research Office of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, the Information Office of agricultural colleges, and the national professional intelligence agency, attended the seminar.
From 65438 to 0992, the library computer circulation management system entered the stage of development and research. 1April 1994, the computer circulation management system was put into use, and the library realized the computer borrowing and open-shelf borrowing of Chinese books entered Tibet after 1975. The system is in the forefront of the national agricultural system library work, which greatly facilitates readers and improves the utilization rate of Chinese books.
1990 In September, the library purchased a set of AGRCOLA CD-ROM retrieval database. In March, 199 1, a document retrieval room and a computer CD-ROM retrieval room were established to provide computer retrieval services. Library information services include: tracking and topic selection services, special literature retrieval services, editing and publishing the special bibliography index of Information Bulletin, etc. And the service has been extended to off-campus areas. 1May, 1998, the library built a CD-ROM network retrieval system, which has 28 CD-ROM drives and 16 computer terminals. It can not only search our own 18 Chinese and foreign databases through 16 terminals, but also search more than 60 large-scale Chinese and foreign CD-ROM databases in the National Library.
1April, 1999, the library built a multimedia network electronic literature reading room, which was connected with the campus network. Relevant information on the Internet can be consulted through China Scientific Research and Education Network. The establishment and operation of CD-ROM retrieval network and multimedia network electronic reading room provide fast and comprehensive services for teachers and students to carry out subject research, scientific research projects, scientific and technological achievements appraisal, write academic papers, read electronic documents and query Internet information.
3. Strengthen the teaching of literature retrieval course and promote students' information literacy education.
During this period, we actively carried out all kinds of business work, combined with work practice, carried out business seminars, and added new service forms according to the development trend of domestic university libraries, which played the most significant role in promoting the teaching of agricultural system literature retrieval course.
In the 1980s, with the rapid development of science and technology, the number of documents increased, the demand for documents became more and more obvious, and the complexity of people's access to information also increased. Literature information retrieval activities began to break away from people's scientific research and scientific exchange. 1July, 1982 to1June, 1985, entrusted by the National University Library Working Committee, the China Agricultural Library Cooperation Committee and the Shaanxi Provincial University Library Working Committee, our library held short-term seminars on reference consultation, document retrieval and training courses on agricultural document retrieval and utilization for the national agricultural system and the Shaanxi Provincial University Library System. About 200 students from the agricultural system of provinces and cities in China 19 and university libraries in Shaanxi Province participated in the study and training.
1983 in may, the library was elected as the vice chairman of China agricultural library association; China Agricultural Library Association has decided that Northwest Agricultural College, Jilin Agricultural College, Shenyang Agricultural College, South China Agricultural College and Zhejiang Agricultural University Library will jointly compile the textbook "Agricultural Literature Retrieval and Utilization" to prepare for the retrieval training of agricultural system libraries.
1June, 1986, with the approval of the school, the library set up the teaching and research section of document retrieval and utilization, and the document retrieval course was listed as an elective course. In September, entrusted by the College Graphic Work Committee of Shaanxi Province, the library held a seminar on the exchange of teaching experience of "Literature Retrieval and Utilization" in colleges and universities in the province, which further promoted the establishment and development of literature retrieval courses in colleges and universities in the province.
4. Improve the service level and quality in an all-round way, and the cause of library has achieved remarkable results.
Since 1987, the number of open-shelf books borrowed by the library has increased to 30% of the total collection, of which all books are open to teachers and graduate students, and the weekly opening hours of the library have increased from more than 50 hours to 70 hours.
During the period of 1989, due to the sharp increase in the number of readers coming to the library and the number of books borrowed, in order to solve the shortage of funds and books, the library carried out the rental and paid service of literary books and periodicals, and implemented the practice of "keeping books with books". Although the follow-up management measures did not keep up, which once produced some disadvantages, this work was well received by readers.
After 1979, the library resumed and carried out international exchanges and carried out foreign exchange activities. With the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Southeast Asia and other 16 countries and regions to establish exchange relations. 1979, FAO listed the library of Northwest Agricultural College as a collection unit directly established by the organization.
For a long time, the academic research of libraries has been active, which has a great influence on the library circles inside and outside the province. In order to further strengthen the academic research work of the library, strengthen the business communication between departments and solve the problems existing in the library business work, the library held seven consecutive library business seminars during the period of 1980- 1986. According to incomplete statistics, as of 1999, * * * has published 253 papers related to various research fields in our library, and published teaching materials and monographs 1 1. He won the special prize of library society of china, the excellent thesis of the 62nd IFLA Congress 1, the second prize of scientific research achievement of Shaanxi Federation of Social Sciences Societies 1, and the second prize of teaching achievement of Northwest Agricultural University 1. Won 72 academic achievement awards and thesis awards at all levels. Published papers include 6 journal of library science in china, 6 Journal of China Science and Technology Information Society/kloc-0, and 3 Journal of University Library.
1In July, 1995, the Ministry of Agriculture approved the museum to have the novelty retrieval right of scientific and technological achievements. 1in July, 1996, Shaanxi provincial science and technology commission approved the museum to have the right to novelty retrieval of scientific and technological achievements. 1986 In May, the library accepted the inspection team of Shaanxi University Library to inspect the implementation of the work regulations of university libraries since 198 1, and the inspection results were well evaluated. 1in March, 989, the library passed the evaluation and inspection of Shaanxi University Library Working Committee and was rated as an excellent library. 1February, 1998, Shaanxi Education Trade Union awarded the Trade Union of the Library Department "Advanced Collective"; In March, Shanxi Library Society awarded the library "Advanced Collective of Learning to Work"; 1September, 1999, the library was rated as 1997- 1998, 1999 advanced collective in management and service education.