Chinese National Library
| Chinese National Library | |
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 Photo taken in 2008
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| founding | 1909 |
| Duration | more than 30 million media units |
| place | Beijing |
| management | Han Yongjin |
| Website | nlc.gov.cn |
The Chinese National Library ( Chinese 中國 國家 圖書館 / 中国 国家 图书馆 , Pinyin Zhōngguó guójiā túshūguǎn , W.-G. Zhong Guo Guo Jia Tu Shu Guan , English National Library of China ) in the street district of Zizhuyuan ( Haidian district ) of the Chinese capital Beijing is the second largest library in Asia after its media holdings and the seventh largest in the world with a holdings of over 30 million bibliographic units . It has the world's largest collection of Chinese literature.
history
The forerunner of the Chinese National Library, the “Capital Library”, was founded on April 24, 1909 by the Manchu government. However, it was not formally opened until after the Xinhai Revolution , on August 27, 1912 (or October 7), in the year when the last of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty , in whose memory it was originally built, abdicated .
In 1916 the library was given the right to deposit copies . In July 1928 it was temporarily renamed "Beijing National Library ".
After the founding of the People's Republic , it was consistently expanded to become the Chinese national library, but its name was shortened to "Beijing Library" ( Pinyin Běijīng túshūguǎn; German also Beijing Library ).
It was not until December 1998 that the State Council approved the name change to "Chinese National Library".
Since November 2009 she has been participating in the "OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing Service".
The library is organizationally subordinate to the Chinese Ministry of Culture.
Web links
- National Library website (also in English)
- Article about the library on china.org.cn (English)
- Article about the library on enonline.sh.cn ( Memento from December 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (English, version from the Internet archive)
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The National Library of China in Brief ) (English)
- China national library expands to be world's third most spacious. (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: OCLC press release of May 27, 2010 ), accessed on September 5, 2011.
- ↑ Wenhui Xu Wallace: Activities and development strategies of the Chinese library system with regard to the public libraries with special consideration of the Internet . Berlin, S. 52 , urn : nbn: de: kobv: 11-10032885 .
Coordinates: 39 ° 56 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 116 ° 19 ′ 20.5 ″ E