Shenzhen Library is the municipal public library of
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a prefecture-level city in the province of Guangdong, China. A Special economic zones of China, special economic zone, it is located on the east bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of Guangdong ...
,
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
. The main library is a part of the
Shenzhen Cultural Center
Shenzhen Cultural Center includes Shenzhen Concert Hall and Shenzhen Library and is located in the Futian district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China, China. It was designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. The Vineyard style ...
in
Futian.
The main library occupies a building on a plot .
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History
It was previously the Bao'an County Library.[Overview]
" Shenzhen Library. Retrieved on September 6, 2017. , Shenzhen had 627 public library facilities. The previous facility opened in 1986 in Lychee Park's northwest area after construction began in 1983.
In 2009, the city government began a library platform program called "City of Libraries" ("City of Library").[Fang, Conghui. ''Chinese Librarianship in the Digital Era''. ]Elsevier
Elsevier ( ) is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell (journal), Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, ...
, June 30, 2013. , 9781780633732. p
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See also
* Shenzhen Library North Hall
* National first-class library
The national first-class, first-level or first-grade libraries (in ) are state-level libraries that have been deliberated and decided upon by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. The seventh evaluation was conducted in 2023.
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References
External links
Shenzhen Library
Arata Isozaki buildings
Public libraries in China
Libraries in Guangdong
Education in Shenzhen
National first-grade libraries of China
1986 in Shenzhen
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