Qianjiang Library

Qianjiang Library is located in the Education and Cultural Center of Qianjiang New Urban Area (No. 1 Xuefu First Road, Zhoubai Street, Qianjiang District), with the scenic Qianjiang Urban Canyon Park adjacent to its front. The library covers an area of approximately 3,500 square meters, with a construction area of 17,000 square meters. It has a designed book collection capacity of 800,000 volumes, equipped with 600 reading seats, 1 electronic reading room (with more than 30 computers), and can accommodate up to 4,000 readers per day.

The library building features a unique, exquisite and highly modern design. Adopting a fully open and non-partitioned layout, it incorporates book symbol elements into its exterior, highlighting a strong cultural atmosphere. The library extensively applies intelligent and information-based technologies. Through intelligent fire-fighting systems, security systems, temperature control systems and integrated management systems, it has achieved a comprehensive upgrade of its business model, providing solid technical support for readers to efficiently use the collection resources. The functional design fully considers the needs of special groups such as people with disabilities, effectively safeguarding the cultural right of everyone to enjoy reading services.

All books and periodicals in the library's reading areas are provided with open-shelf services. Currently, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th floors are used as service areas:

- The 1st floor serves as the exhibition area and the library's network hub;

- The 2nd floor is the information service area and periodical service area, providing multimedia audio-visual services, electronic reading, information resource sharing and network services. It also has a Chinese periodical reading area, as well as special zones for classic reading, visually impaired reading and children's reading;

- The 3rd floor is the book lending area, offering lending services for Chinese and foreign books;

- The 5th floor houses the administrative office area, local literature area and ancient book special collection service area, providing consultation, reference, ancient book authentication and custody services.

As the center for collecting and utilizing book documents and developing document information resources in Qianjiang District, the library currently has more than 500,000 books and periodicals, nearly 300,000 electronic documents of various types, and over 4,000 volumes of ancient books in its collection. The construction of Qianjiang Digital Library has further broken the constraints of time and space, allowing readers to access the library's digital document resources and Qianjiang's local characteristic resources such as pictures and videos without leaving home.

Adhering to the mission of "Inheriting Civilization and Serving the Society", Qianjiang Library is open to all citizens and implements the basic reading service of "fully free of charge and one-card access". It is open for more than 64 hours per week, among which the book lending and periodical reading areas are open for 66.5 hours per week, and the self-study reading area is open for 84 hours per week. It also remains open on weekends and legal holidays to fully meet readers' needs.

In addition, to expand the service coverage, there are three branch libraries:

- The branch located on the 9th floor of the Cultural Palace, leveraging the advantage of concentrated cultural activities to provide comprehensive reading services;

- The 24-hour self-service library beside the football field of the Gymnasium, which uses intelligent equipment to realize all-day self-service borrowing and returning, meeting readers' needs for reading at any time;

- The Hongxin Post Library Branch near the former tobacco factory, focusing on community convenience services and creating a micro reading space for neighborhood sharing.

As a core public cultural facility in Qianjiang District, the library is not only a knowledge palace for citizens' lifelong education, but also an important symbol of the cultural connotation and taste of the urban area. In the future, it will further strengthen its information reference function, provide high-level knowledge support and information services for government decision-making, economic development, scientific and technological innovation, academic research and other activities in Qianjiang District, and contribute to the "great development and prosperity of culture". At the same time, it is committed to playing the role of Qianjiang District's document information center and Chongqing's regional central library, striving to build a first-class public library integrating leisure, research and digitalization, and ranking among the advanced libraries.