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Shandong Library

Shandong Library

General Information

Chinese Name: 山东省图书馆
Phone Number: 85590781
Email Address: webmaster AT sdlib.com
Online: http://www.sdlib.com/
Database Search: http://www.sdlib.com/library/web/00search.jsp
Entry Fee: 15RMB for Readers Card
Opening Times: 8:30-19:00 See http://www.sdlib.com/library/web/N07_service03.jsp
Information Last Confirmed: March, 2008

Directions

Located about 2km east of the Shandong University "new campus" (新校) and only a few minutes by taxi from the center of Jinan.

• Map: http://www.sdlib.com/library/web/N07_service04.jsp

Usage

Upon entry you need to check large bags in the cloak room. You may bring in laptops and notebooks if you check in your backpacks etc.

You have to sign in at many of the reading rooms, and display your readers card on the table when you sit down. To get a readers card, go to the administrative office on the second floor (办证处）and fill out an application and pay the 15RMB fee. There are other "levels" of library access which have their own privileges, and if you want to borrow books, you must pay 100RMB in addition to the membership fee. The card is valid for one year.

Facilities

Card Catalogs: Online search.
Computers: There is a computer room (计算机网络中心） on the first floor for accessing the internet and databases.
Reading Room: Several rooms divided by the kind of books and resources available on each floor.
Photocopy Machines:
Photocopy Prices:
Bathrooms: Bathrooms on each floor. No toilet paper.
Vending Machines:
Nearby Food:

Collections of Note

The second floor has a large computer room (electronic reading room), a reference room with a wide variety of dictionaries and plentiful seating space, and there are relatively small reading rooms with selections of books for lending on the second and third floor.

Recent newspapers and periodicals are found in a room of that name on the third floor, with some foreign language books on the fourth floor.

A variety of local materials related to Shandong can be found in the fifth floor local materials room (山东地方文献阅览室) including local gazateers, 文史资料, local CCP party histories, and other Shandong related yearbooks and statistics along with a rare books room which requires a higher "level" of reading card.

There is a small bookstore on the grounds of the library down some stairs as you enter the library.

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Other Notes, Comments and Experiences

• Getting a readers card took only a few minutes with my passport, using a Chinese name, an American address, and no local Chinese information. I told them I was going to be visiting Shandong several times during the year and that seemed to satisfy them. The library computer room filled up some thirty minutes after opening time so if you want to use them, get there early. There were not a lot of places to sit in the reading rooms, except for the reference room which had more room. Periodical room did not seem to have old newspapers for the province. As with most places, bring your own toilet paper. Kmlawson (Last Visited: March, 2008)