The Library of South-Central University for Nationalities, with the twin towers * * *17th floor, is a modern library with a long history, magnificent architecture, high quality staff, rich collections, advanced equipment, scientific management and humanized service. Now it has become an important literature resource base for teaching and scientific research and an ideal place for teachers and students to work and study. At present, it is striding forward to the modern digital library at a rapid pace. First, the area of the building, the layout of the reading room, and the staff. The library of South-Central University for Nationalities was founded in 195 1 year, and had a certain scale in the early 1960s. 1980 Rebuild the new museum, covering an area of 6,800 square meters. Following the expansion of the new library with an area of more than 20,000 square meters in 2002, in early 2006, the school transformed Building 6 with an area of more than 9,000 square meters into the Library South College. So far, the total building area of the library has reached 44,573 square meters, and the per capita area of students has reached 2.33 square meters. The new building17th floor, 85 meters high, is a tall and magnificent antique building, standing on the beautiful South Lake. The library has eight working departments, including the General Party Branch, the library office, the interview department, the cataloging department, the circulation department, the reading department, the technical management department and the information development consulting department, and has 32 professional reading rooms, including the professional book lending room, the national ancient book lending room, the electronic reading room, the reference book reading room, the literature and art periodicals reading room and the teachers' reading room. At present, the library can provide 53 1 1 reading seats for all teachers and students, including 32 18 seats for students and 534 electronic reading computers. Excellent library conditions greatly meet the needs of teachers and students in reading and learning in the library. The library currently has 132 employees, including 123 with college education or above. These high-quality professional and technical personnel have well undertaken all the work of the library. Since June 5438+ 10, 2005, the library has taken the lead in realizing the whole staff competition system, introducing the competition mechanism into the library, breaking the pot of personnel system management and stepping into the track of efficient and rapid development. Second, the construction of collection literature resources At present, the library has basically formed a collection literature resource system with our school's characteristics, reasonable structure and high quality. The content covers literature, history and philosophy, mathematics, physics and chemistry, economics, law, education, management, foreign languages, electronic engineering, computer technology, biomedicine and other disciplines, including printed matter, electronic version, audio-visual and CD-ROM. The total collection of literature in the library reached 2,375,706 volumes, including more than 700,000 electronic books. Various professional databases at home and abroad have been established, such as —CNKI, Wanfang-China full-text dissertation database, Peking University-Italy database, Superstar digital library, scholar's home e-book, Springer Link scientific literature database, etc. , including IEEE and Elsevier, the world's largest and most authoritative all-English databases, invested a total of 1 more than 10,000 yuan and built 1 database containing more than 5,000 movies. At present, 13 database can provide full-text browsing for all teachers and students, and electronic resources have become an important part of library collection resources. In addition, our library has nearly 654.38+ten thousand volumes of minority literature, and the minority literature, especially the southern minority literature, has become the characteristic collection of our library. Abundant literature resources greatly meet the needs of teachers and students for literature. At present, the average number of books and documents in the whole school has reached 125. Three. Since the modernization and digitalization construction 1997, the school has strengthened the modernization construction of the library, and invested 300,000 yuan to build the library local area network in the early stage, and the library automation and digitalization construction have made rapid development. At present, the library is using ILASII system, a library automation integration system developed by Shentu Company. The whole library has realized the comprehensive automatic management of books and periodicals from interview, acceptance, cataloging, collection, circulation and reading to document retrieval and digital consulting services. The traditional manual operation and retrieval methods have been fundamentally changed, and the library's business work has been fully standardized, standardized and scientific. In order to speed up the digital construction of the library, the school has increased the investment in the software and hardware construction of the library, and the library has initially formed a network and software and hardware support system. At the same time, the library has also strengthened its cooperation with the national CALIS document center and other university libraries in Hubei Province, and initially formed a system of * * * construction, * * knowledge and * * enjoyment of electronic resources. Four. Strengthening reader service for a long time, the library has always adhered to the purpose of serving readers, extending service time, improving service quality, broadening service scope, and paying special attention to service performance. In the past four years, the library's service for readers has been comprehensively improved. Since 2002, the opening hours of the library have been greatly extended, reaching 14 hours every day, with no rest at noon. It is open as usual on Saturday and Sunday, with a weekly opening time of 98 hours. It is open to the public all year round except for the 7-day long holiday during the Spring Festival. All electronic resources in the library are released to the whole school 24 hours a day, and all teachers and students in our school can browse all electronic resources in the collection 24 hours a day through identity authentication on the campus and off campus. In the circulation and reading of paper documents, the library implements the management mode of decentralized lending and centralized book return, which greatly facilitates readers. Over the past three years, more than 2 million people have entered the library to study and read, and an average of 500,000 books have been borrowed each year, greatly improving the efficiency of the library. In addition, the library also provides readers with more urgently needed literature resources through "interlibrary loan" and "document delivery". In order to strengthen the utilization rate of the library, our library has set up perennial "reader training" and literature retrieval courses throughout the school. Various reference services and subject services have been carried out. An "online recommendation" service column has been set up on the library homepage to facilitate teachers and students to recommend the books they need.