Chongqing Library

　　Introduction     A comprehensive library. Its predecessor was the “National Roosevelt Library,” established in 1947. After renovation and expansion, it was later renamed “Southwest Library” and “Chongqing Municipal Library.” In May 1987, it adopted its current name. The library has two locations: one at No. 1 Changjiang 1st Road, Yuzhong District, and another at No. 93 Pibaishan Zhengjie. The total floor area is 14,478 square meters.        It is one of the top ten libraries in China. By the end of 1987, it housed a collection of over 3.1248 million volumes, including more than 2.306 million Chinese books (of which over 450,000 were thread-bound volumes), over 170,000 foreign language books, 600,000 bound periodicals, and the rest consisting of various types of documentation. The library includes a general reading room, a periodical reading room, a natural science reference room, a self-study reading room, a United Nations materials reading room, an internal materials reading room, a social sciences reference tools room, a Hong Kong and Taiwan publications reading room, as well as two lending desks for books and periodicals. Chongqing Library has a relatively complete collection of books published during the War of Resistance and a systematically organized collection of United Nations materials, giving it a certain influence both domestically and internationally. 　

　　 Chongqing Yuzhong