Shanghai Library
(Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai)
Shanghai Library (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai) is a postdoctoral research center, the Center for Public Cultural Affairs and Tourism Research of the Ministry of Culture, the Shanghai branch of the National Cultural Information Resource Sharing Project, the Shanghai Historical Collection Preservation and Conservation Center, the main library of the Shanghai Central Library System, the "Cutting-edge Technology Development Research Center" of the Shanghai soft science research base, and the Information Center of Shanghai Cultural Creative Industry. By the end of 2021, the Shanghai Library has a collection of over 57,000,000 items in Chinese and foreign languages, including unique resources such as rare books, letters and rubbings, celebrity manuscripts, genealogical records and local histories, Western rare books, sheet music, modern newspapers and periodicals, and patents and standards. The Library has a total area of 127,000 square meters.
The Library abides by the principle of serving the general public and provides free reading and book loan services. The library conducts various reading activities, attracting millions of people to the Library. The Shanghai Library Collaborative Online Reference Services, Lectures and Exhibitions, Book Publishing News Briefings, Barrier-free Library Services, Remote Information Access Services, “Shanghai Memory” Digital Library, and other special services are well-received by the general public at home and abroad.
The Library takes the advantages of information services to support scientific research and innovation. The scientific & technical information services focus on the cutting-edge technologies, emerging industries, metropolitan research and other key areas, having a leading position in the country in such fields as technological information research, patent analysis, science and technology evaluation, and competitive intelligence. The Shanghai Information Service Platform and the “Source of Creativity” Information Service for SMEs have established new models for the industrial information services.
Based on its capacity for information research, the Library provides high quality consulting services for the government decision-making. With the InforLib Express, Competitive Intelligence, i-Intelligence, media assessment and other high level research information services, the Library offers a variety of information on decision-making for the urban development.
Adapting to the development of modern science and technology, the Shanghai Library has developed new reading experience and ubiquitous knowledge services. The Library has established the New Reading Demo Room, “Innovation Space” and other special reading rooms, and has developed mobile library service, text message service, e-book reader loan service and etc. By launching the "Digital Reading Promotion Plan for Citizens", the Library provides cross-platform digital reading services to the readers. The Library has also launched the digital arts and humanities resource services based on open data, in order to realize the opening and interconnection of data on the internet.
The Shanghai Library strengthens professional exchanges and social cooperation, constantly improving the cooperation mechanism of information resources. The Shanghai Central Library relies on the "One-Card-Through" book circulation system and subject library services as the carrier to promote the interlibrary resource sharing. The Shanghai Industrial Information Development Consortium provides the public with scientific and technical information and advisory and consulting services through the "Shanghai Industrial Information Service Network”. As a cultural exchange program cooperating with overseas libraries, the "Window of Shanghai" helps to promote the Chinese culture, as well as expanding the channels for international library professional cooperation.
The National Index to Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals (NICNP), Shanghai Culture Yearbook, Library Journal and Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Press focus on both social and economic benefits, and provide readers with high-quality scientific and cultural information.
The Shanghai Library (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai) implements the core values of “delivering the knowledge that helps stimulate wisdom and ignite aspiration through excellent services and sincere cooperation”, carries out the mission of “accumulating culture and contributing to superb knowledge services", devotes itself to the construction of knowledge service system with knowledge navigation as its core and focuses on both library and information services. The library has developed a knowledge service system that serves the general readers, the research communities and the decision-making bodies, and is striving to establish itself as a world-class city library.
Address: 1555, Middle Huaihai Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, 200031
Tel. 021-64455555 Fax: 021-64455001
Web Site: http://library.sh.cn.
