Wuhan University Library seats by the East Lake. It's formed since last centry as Hubei Selfimproving School Library by Hubei viceroy Zhang Zhidong. The library is famous for it's long history, unique building style, pleasant enviorment. The old library building built in 1935 is the typical building of Wuhan University.

Wuhan University Library is devided into 4 sections: Art and Science, Technical, Information Technology and Medical. The total area of the library is 44136 squar metres, reading room has 4256 seats, every year ingather 80000 Chinese and foreign books, more then 10000 newspapers. Until the end of year 2000, the whole book storage of the library reach to 4980,000. Have more then 200,000 old type books, among them more then 300 has been collected into "China Ancient Book Collection". There are 60,000 readers in the university. There also has different major book reading rooms among the 28 colleges of the university. In recent years, the library increased the collection of electrical literature, now already has more then 120 types of database and reading files for all kinds of computers. The library has many centers: China Advanced Education Literature Insurance System, The Middle China Center, Education Department Foreign Books Center, Life Science Foreign Textbooks Center, Canada Published Books Collection Center, Europe Commity Information Center and World Bank Information Center. The Information center of College of Law has been titled "United Nations Information Storage Library" by the United Nations.

The library already using computer management, is one of the key members of the national university libraries which catalogue online. Formed high spead library network and electrical service center, has more then 400 devices such as server, computer, etc, can provide all kinds of services to the readers such as borrow out, read, use audio and vedio, make enquiry, information search, reader education, information copy and information transfer, also can search all kinds of informations through using CERNET and INTERNET. Recently, the library began exchanges with more then 600 libraries and reasearch organizations world wide and nation wide.

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1. Department Person In Charge: Yan Jinwei 87682740-877

Email: yjw@lib.whu.edu.cn

2. Office Address: Wuhan University Library 87682745

Homepage: http://www.lib.whu.edu.cn

3. Person In Charge of Homepage: Zhang Muchiao Tel: 87682745

Title: Office Vice Director Email:zmq@lib.whu.edu.cn