About the Library

Department Profile

Oct 13, 2020
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There are six departments in the Library: the administration office, the resource construction department, the reader service department, the information service department, the subject service department and the sci-tech novelty retrieval department.

The main tasks of the administration office include: coordinate the work of the whole library, inspect and implement the decisions of the curator, summarize and report work of the library, preside over the administrative work and secretarial, printing, publicity and archival work of the library, plan the development of the Department, formulate the annual work plan of the department, organize and help to implement it, assist in the management of personnel procedures and work- study procedures of the whole library, and handle administration management and details of the library’s internal and external business, and other tasks.

The main tasks of the resource construction department include: the acquisition, acceptance, cataloging and collection of documents and materials. It is responsible for the collection construction, cataloging and sorting of all kinds of materials in the library, as well as the storage and coordination of the collected documents.

The reader service department consists of 38 functional areas. They are: the General Borrowing and Returning Desk (Hall on the first floor), Compact Stacks 1 (1stF, northwest ), Compact Stacks 2 (1stF, southwest ), Language and Cultural Books Lending Desk (2ndF, east), Engineering Books Lending Desk1 (2ndF, north), Engineering Books Lending Desk 2 (2ndF, west ), Engineering Books Lending Desk3 (2nd, south), Science Books Lending Desk (3rd. F, east ), Meteorological Environment Books Lending Desk (3rd F, north ), and Teachers' Books Exhibition Room(3rd F, south ), Literature Lending Desk (3rd F, West), Liberal Arts Loan Desk1 (5th F, east ), Liberal Arts Lending Desk2 (5th F, West), Art Books Lending Desk(5th F, south), Foreign Language Book Lending Desk (6F, south ), Academy of Science Library Classification Collectorections Lending Desk(6F, east), Natural Science books Reading Room (6F, West ), Social Science Books Reading Room 1 (7F, east ), and Social Science Books Reading Room 2 (7F, north ), Reference Books Reading room (7F, northwest), Characteristic Sample Reading Room (7F, southwest ), Electronic reading Room, Multimedia Room, Periodical Reading Room, Foreign Language (back issues ) Reading Room, Dissertation Reading Room, Newspapers and Periodicals Reading Room, Natural Science Books Reading Room, Social Science Books Reading Room, Reference Book Reading Room. Except the compact stacks, the library provides open-shelves management, as well as the borrowing services of all kinds of Chinese and foreign books and periodicals, electronics resources, newspapers and subject materials.

The information service department is composed of information service room, resource digitization room, technical support room, library LAN management and maintenance center and other functional areas. It is mainly responsible for providing scientific and technological literature information retrieval, reference consultation, document transmission, agent inspection and inspection, topic determination service, electronic resource reading, teaching of "literature retrieval and utilization" course and the digitization of literature resources, management and maintenance of electronic resources, training of electronic resources users and Huiwen document information service system, digital construction of library, maintenance of library website for all readers as well as technical support for all departments of the library.

The subject service department, focusing on the goals of high-level university and first-class discipline construction, carries out discipline evaluation services to provide decision support for discipline development of the university, is responsible for the data construction of atmospheric science characteristic database, strengthens the contact and communication with various functional departments and colleges of the University, and provides personalized discipline services for teaching and scientific research.

The sci-tech novelty retrieval department provides relevant application materials for the project, appraises whether the subject is related to the research and provides report, and estimate whether the award project is related to the reward material, etc. Sci-tech novelty retrieval is a very rigorous, scientific and technological information research work, which combines literature retrieval with information research and requires scientificity, objectivity, impartiality and accuracy.

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