At present, the new library, including the headquarters and the new campus, covers an area of 34,500 square meters and is one of the largest libraries in colleges and universities in Hunan Province. Officially opened in September 1965, 438+2003. There are more than 3 million books, including more than 2 million paper books and 436,800 electronic books.

From 65438 to 0997, the library introduced an advanced library automation management system-ILAS library integrated management system, and all the business work of the library was automatically managed. 200 1, the library started the construction of digital resources. At present, the digital resource capacity of the library exceeds 10T, and more than 60 databases can be used, including China HowNet, Superstar Digital Library and Wanfang Database System. It has realized the * * * resource sharing with the digital libraries of universities in Hunan Province.

Network planning: The library has gigabit backbone optical fiber campus network, 100 megabit desktop, advanced technology, unified management LAN system and storage network system. It has 7 servers and 2,665,438+0 computers, and all its services and services have been automated and digitized online.

Opening and management plan: the library is open 7 days a week, 93.5 hours a week, and the network and digital resources are open 24 hours a day. All stacks and reading rooms provide readers with full open-shelf service, and the open-shelf borrowing rate reaches 100%.

Service scheme: provide a number of services, such as document borrowing, reference service, document delivery, interlibrary loan, document reproduction, bibliography inquiry, new book recommendation, reader information inquiry, new book release, online reservation, reminder and renewal, online database retrieval and full-text download, CD-ROM database retrieval, virtual consultation and question answering, online video on demand, online lecture hall playback, etc.