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9th CDNLAO Meeting: China Country Report

Update on the National Library of China

Mr Ren Jiyu, Director

Report given by Zhang Yanbo, Deputy Director

Library Administration

(1) Library Organisational Structure

(2) New Libraries that are being built - an increase of 36 public libraries in 1999 as compared with that of 1998.
(3) General Trend of visitorship and membership - issuing 5,960,000 reader's cards for public libraries.

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Status Report of the National Library of China

Zhang Yanbo
Deputy Director

The year of 2000 sees the achievements and progress of the National Library of China made due to its adhering to reforms in all aspects of its work, all of which has laid a solid foundation for its further development. The achievements made in the past year are below:

1. The Collection and Services

In 2000, due to the Library opening to the public all year round, a total of 3.71 million readers visited the Library. This means that an average of over 10,000 readers visited the Library daily, an increase of 24.4% over 1999. The total number of materials for circulation accounted for 27,737,300 volumes, an increase of 73.8% over 1999. The Library issued 210,000 reader's cards, a 45.3% increase; answered 262,000 reference questions, which increased 7.55 times as against that of 1999. All these achievements mentioned above have resulted in an excellent social effect.

2. Development of the Digital Library and Networkng

The development of the China digital library and networking is the most important task of all for the Library in its future development. The year 2000 sees the continued development in networking and the preparation for the China Digital Library Project:

3. Deepening the reform in Administration and Management

The implementation of a competitive system in combination with the management and supervisory mechanism has led to the formation of a new working environment. According to the arrangement:

4. Staff Training and Development

One of the strategies for the Library is to build and maintain an elite corps of staff to meet the challenges in the future development. Necessary, measures are taken to create a good environment for the staff, the young staff in particular, to give a full play in their respective areas.

5. Maintain Good relations and Cooperation with Libraries at Home and Abroad

The Library realizes that an excellent external environment is necessary for the healthy development of the Library. Therefore, the Library stresses the necessity by being deeply involved in and maintaining resource sharing, mutual communication and effective cooperation with other libraries within the country. The Library gives importance to seeking and maintaining good relationships with other libraries of world importance.

The period of 2001-2005 is very important to China as the 10th Five Year Plan for National Economic Development will be implemented. During this period China will continue to reform its infrastructure for further development. Speeding up information dissemination is one of the goals to be achieved. The National Library of China, functioning as the largest national information centre, must spare no time to take the opportunity for its development. The tasks which the Library should fulfil are highlighted below:

In the information age, the friendly network interface and rapidly increasing demands of society has created good changes to libraries. The National Library of China is willing to strengthen cooperation in development of the digital library with the national libraries of Asian and Pacific Regions. Let us work together to make joint contribution to the prosperity of this area.


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