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• The Wenjin Book Award
The Wenjin Book Award of NLC is a public book award held by the National Library of China, aiming at reflecting and directing readers' aesthetic orientations and cultural consumption, so as to cultivate a good reading habit in the society as a whole. |
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• Chinese Books Database
The National Library of China constructs its digital resource of Chinese books by itself with a collection of more than 260,000 titles. |
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• Apabi E-books
The National Library of China holds approximately 460,000 volumes of e-books in 230,000 titles and 1684 titles of yearbooks made by Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. The e-books are legal copies from over 400 publishers and cover the entire second grade classifications of the Chinese Library Classification. |
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• ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) (1700-1799)
The database consists of 150,000 volumes (130,000 titles) of documents with, more than 33,000 pages, covering history, geography, law, literature, linguistics, social sciencesarts, medical science and reference books. |
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• MOML The Making of Modern Law (since 1800)
MOML collects 22,000 titles of all the British and American publications in law since 1800, totalling more than 10.6 million pages. The database covers 99 fields in law that are related to all aspects of the Anglo-American legal systems. |
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• GlobalBooksInPrint.com
GlobalBooksInPrint.com collects bibliographic data of over 250,000 publishers from 43 countries, covering more than 12 million books, and updates weekly. |
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[ Chinese Printed Books of NLC Collections ]
Up to the end of 2009, the total of Chinese books in NLC's collection had reached to 6,906,968 volumes, including general Chinese books, HK&TW books and Chinese books published overseas.
You can look up in the OPAC to see if a certain book is collected by NLC and its details, including call number, location, information of a specific copy, etc. Using your Reader's Card, you can also conduct reservation, renewal and other procedures for the book online. |
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| [ Foreign Language Printed Books of NLC Collections ] |
As of 2009, the total of foreign language books in NLC's collection had reached 3,501,431 volumes, including books in English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and other minority languages.
You can look up in the OPAC to see if a certain book is in NLC's collection and its details, including its call number, location in the library, information of a single copy, etc. Using your Reader's Card, you can also conduct reservation, renewal and other procedures for the book online. |
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Chinese Books |
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Location:Out ring of the 1st and 2nd floor, NLC North Area.
Collections: Chinese books (and attached disks) in social sciences and in science & technology, published recently, amounting to 400,000 volumes; 138 computers for digital resources services, and 6 computers for disk reading.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00-21:00 Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 |
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Selected Books |
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Location:South side, out ring, 1st floor, NLC North Area.
Collections: Well-known, award-winning books and other famous works, Chinese classics, books that have greatly influenced human thinking, history, science and technology, and human life; and recently published influential book series, academically recognized classics of every discipline, etc., amounting to 10,000 volumes.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00-21:00 Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 |
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Reference Books |
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Location:The central court, from the 1st basement to the 2nd floor, NLC North Area.
Collections: Complete Library of the Four Branches of Literature (Wen Jin Ge edition and Wen Yuan Ge edition, photo-offset copy) and related series (in the 1st basement); foreign languages reference books, including encyclopedias and dictionaries, biographical information, and bibliography index (1st floor); Chinese encyclopedias and dictionaries, and Chinese reference books published in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan (2nd floor), amounting to 30,000 volumes, and part of foreign languages reference books and Chemical Abstracts (CA) for close-stack reading, which are located in NLC South Area originally.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00-21:00 Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 |
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Reading Room for Chinese Books in Stacks |
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Location:North side, 4th floor, NLC North Area.
Collections: Chinese books published after 2003 (including 2003); 1 computer for reading discs.
Telephone: 88545125
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00-21:00 (For online reservation of documents: 0:00-16:00)Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (For online reservation of documents: 0:00-16:00) |
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Reading Room for Preservation Collections |
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Location:Northwest side, 4th floor, NLC North Area.
Collections: Preservation copies of Chinese books, preservation copies of Chinese periodicals published 3 years ago, and Taiwan and Hong Kong periodicals published 3 years ago.
Telephone: 88545260
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00-21:00 (For reservation of documents: 9:00-16:00)Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (For reservation of documents: 9:00-16:00) |
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Foreign Publications Reading Room |
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Location:3rd floor, NLC North Area.
Collections: Western languages books catalogued in the previous one year (including part of the western languages books collected in former Law Reference Services Room and Chinese Studies Centre of National Library of China), amounting to 12,000 volumes; western languages books published after 1975 (including 1975) for close-stack reading; periodicals in western languages, Japanese, and Russian published in the previous 1-2 years (including western languages periodicals in former Law Reference Services Room and Chinese Studies Centre of National Library of China), amounting to 5,700 titles; 34 computers for digital resources services; 2 computers for reading disks.
Telephone: 88545441
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00-21:00 (For online reservation of close-stack reading documents: 0:00-16:00) Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (For online reservation of close-stack reading documents: 0:00-16:00,western languages books for close-stack reading are not available on Saturday) |
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Japanese Publications Reading Room |
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Location:North side, 3rd floor, NLC North Area.
Collections: About 10,000 volumes of Japanese publications catalogued in the previous one year.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00-21:00 Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 |
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Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macau Collections Reading Room |
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Location:Middle part of north side, 4th floor, NLC North Area.
Collections: Chinese books and newspapers, and periodicals in the previous 3 years published in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau and overseas countries.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00-21:00 (For online reservation of documents: 0:00-16:00)Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (For online reservation of documents: 0:00-16:00) |
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Chinese Yearbooks Reading Room |
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Location:North side, 4th floor, NLC North Area.
Collections: Reading services of Chinese yearbooks (print copy, CDs, full-text databases), navigation services of access to yearbook full-texts via Internet free of charge, booklist of new arrivals of each month, introduction of newly created yearbooks, 20,000 volumes of yearbooks, 4 computers for disk reading, 4 computers for OPAC services, and 32 reading seats.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00-21:00 (For online reservation of documents: 0:00-16:00)Saturday to Sunday 9:00-17:00 (For online reservation of documents: 0:00-16:00) |
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