Library Introduction
Shandong agricultural university library is located at the foot of Mount Tai. It has three buildings in two campuses, an area of 22,300 square meters , and 3210 reading seats . There are five departments including the Ministry of Resources and Construction, the Borrowing Department of North Campus, the Borrowing Department of Sourth Campus, the Department of System Construction, the Department of Information and Consulting, and the Administration Office. There are 73 employees, including 25 with senior titles and 36 with intermediate titles. The library consists of academic committee, professional committee of document resources construction, committee of automation construction and committee of reading promotion.
It has established a document resource guarantee system with the advantages and characteristics of agricultural science and life science , covering other related disciplines. It has a collection of 2655,400 volumes of paper books , 1429 kinds of current periodicals and 70 kinds of newspapers. It has built 94 Chinese and foreign electronic resource libraries , including China national knowledge network , weipu, wanfang, super star, new Oriental English, Web of Scinece, Wiley, ScienceDirect, Proquest , Springer, Science Online, Nature, etc.It includes 1565,400 electronic books, 874,600 electronic journals, 4358,800 academic dissertations, and 193,700 hours of audio and video. There are 5225 volumes of 293 kinds of ancient books , which can be traced back to"Records of The Three Kingdoms" in the Ming Dynasty.
The bibliographic data, book accompany CD and the electronic resources operate online in 7*24 hours. Library provides the book borrowing and returning, the intelligence analysis, the reference consultation, the original text transmission , the check and quotation , the academic retrieval, the education training, the reading promotion , the electronic reading , etc. Library has its own newspaper :“Shu Xiang Shan Nong” (书香山农)。
Library has built seat reservation system, intelligent access control, broadcasting, electronic large screen, video monitoring, self-service printing and other security systems,Library is open for 98 hours every week. Adhere to the “readers for this , the service supreme” management objective , around a high level of university and the construction of “Double-First Class” target, comprehensive services are provided for teaching and scientific research, talent cultivation, discipline construction, cultural heritage. We try to build the library into first-class information resource center, self-learning center, research and communication center and knowledge management center, cultural heritage and collaborative innovation center”. (as of August 2019).