The library implements the service mode of all-weather opening, collection and reading, and the weekly opening time is 98 hours. 36 public inquiry machines are distributed in halls, reading rooms and stacks for readers to search freely. Books and periodicals subscription, editing, circulation and inquiry have basically realized standardized and networked computer management. In order to overcome the shortage of collections and regions, our library also provides original text delivery services for more than 18000 foreign periodicals, as well as network services, CD-ROM retrieval, interlibrary loan, document delivery, subject novelty retrieval and other services.
By June 2007, the library of Zhejiang Normal University had collected more than 10,000 books, more than 30,000 kinds of electronic books, more than 7,000 kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals, more than 3,000 kinds of Chinese and English core periodicals and professional periodicals at home and abroad, and purchased and built a large number of literature databases. Such as Superstar Digital Library, Scholar's Home Digital Library, China Academic Journals Mirror Station, Wanfang Data Resource System, Tianyu Full-text Retrieval System, Weipu Chinese Sci-tech Journals Full-text Database, Addison Online Lecture Hall, Zhongjing Video, Mathematical Review, ScienceDirect Full-text Electronic Journals, EBSCO Foreign Periodicals Database, Springer Link Full-text Electronic Journals, China Information Database and other large databases. The library also has a large collection of audio-visual materials and multimedia CDs. The special collection reading room of ancient books collects photocopies of wired ancient books and most of the copied ancient books, such as Si Ku Quan Shu, Continued Si Ku Quan Shu, China Re-created Rare Books and China Local Records Series. The library orders 654.38+million books in Chinese and foreign languages every year, forming a multidisciplinary, multi-type and multi-carrier comprehensive collection system combining literature, science and engineering, covering basically all disciplines and majors in the school.