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The National Library of China (NLC) is the national library of China, located in Haidian, Beijing, and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It contains over 41 million items as of December 2020. [1] [2] It holds the largest collection of Chinese literature and historical documents in the world [3] and covers an area of 280,000 square ...
South wing of the National Library of China. The country's main library, the National Library of China, has a collection of over 26 million volumes, and is the largest library in Asia, housing the largest collection of Chinese books in the world. It also houses a collection of books, periodicals, newspapers, maps, prints, photographs ...
A "♦" indicates a national library of a province or state, or constituent country or dependent state [neutrality is disputed]. It is listed under the sovereign state which governs that entity. Sovereign states are listed even when they have no national library or when the existence and name of a national library could not yet be ascertained.
December 2009-January 2014: Director-General, National Library of China March 2001-February 2010: Vice-Minister of Culture , People's Republic of China January 1995-November 2001: Executive Deputy Director, National Library of China
National Bibliographies: the Chinese Experience, 72nd IFLA Conference at Seoul in Korea, August 2006, Ben Gu of NLC An overview of the current situation of the National Bibliography and classification systems in China. A month at the Shanghai Library, November 2004, Helen Michael, University of Toronto A librarian from Canada shared her ...
The Siku Quanshu, literally the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, [1] is a Chinese encyclopedia commissioned during the Qing dynasty by the Qianlong Emperor. Commissioned in 1772 and completed in 1782, the Siku quanshu is the largest collection of books in imperial Chinese history, comprising 36,381 volumes, 79,337 manuscript rolls, 2.3 ...
National Library of Iran Iran: Tehran: 15.0 million [43] Hong Kong Public Library Hong Kong: Hong Kong: 11.36 million [44] HK$776.2 million [45] National Library of Poland Poland: Warsaw: 10.4 milion [46] Toronto Public Library Canada: Toronto, Ontario 10.2 million $252 million (CAD) 1825
Library associations connect libraries and library workers at the local, national, and international level. Library associations often provide resources to their individual and institutional members that enable cooperation, exchange of information, education, research, and development.