Sections and Services Provided

Editorial Section of Library Tribune
　Library Tribune, originally named as Guangdong Library Journal, was founded in February 1981. In 1991, the name of the journal was formally changed into Library Tribune. One year later, the publishing frequency was also adjusted from quarterly to bi-monthly, and circulated through post office domestic distribution. With China National Serials Number of CN44-1306/G, International Standard Serials Number (ISSN) of 1002-1167 and Post Office Domestic Distribution Code of 46-127, each copy of Library Tribune pages 168 since the first issue of 2003.
　Under the supervision of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture, Library Tribune is jointly sponsored by Sun Yat-Sen Library of Guangdong Province and the Library Society of Guangdong.
　Library Tribune, an academic journal of social science, undertakes the mission to publish results of academic research of Library and Information Sciences, to exchange the working experiences and relevant information, to promote the further development of library and information cause. It has columns such as "Contend•Explore", "Network•Electronic•Automation", "Information Building", etc.
　The journal has been greatly improved and gained a high reputation during recent years, and was thrice awarded the title of "National Excellent Journal on Library Science" by China Society for Library Science in 1995, 1998 and 2002 respectively. As a core library and information journal in China, it was also listed in many national directories and databases, such as the Core Journals of Chinese Human Science and Social Science Directory in 1999; Chinese Core Journal Directory, the third edition, in 2000; Database of Chinese Science and Technology Journal in 2002. After strict selection, Library Tribune, as one of the three excellent journals, was included in the first exhibition of Today Publication in Guangdong, which itinerated among three North American cities, New York, San Francisco and Vancouver, from late November to mid-December, 2002. In July 2003, Library Tribune was successively listed in the Database of Comprehensive Evaluation of Chinese Academic Journal, Database of Chinese Journals, Wanfang Data ---- the digital periodicals and the Database of (Selected) Chinese Core Journal.

Address: 2nd floor, North Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu, Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Zhou Yin-sheng
Telephone: (020) 83825705
Email: tsglt@zslib.com.cn                                                                  



Research and Training Section
　The Section undertakes the mission to engage in theoretical research of library science, irregularly publish library working communication, reflect situations of Guangdong public libraries, train librarians, hold library operation and knowledge courses one or twice annually, cooperate with education departments to carry out the adult higher education of library science, offer consultations about library operations, visiting, and library building, hold itinerant tutoring lectures throughout the province, provide research materials and services of loaning and reading with its reading-room of library science.
　In addition, the secretariat of the Library Society of Guangdong included in the same section, undertakes the business of organizing academic activities of all kinds, developing society members, printing the society working correspondences and the secretariat routine.

Address: 2nd floor, North Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu, Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Chen Wei-dong
Telephone: (020) 83825701
Email: fdb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  



Technical Section
　The Section provides the services of photography, processing, digital changing, searching, reading and coping for rare books, periodicals and newspapers. The Section includes Audio-visual Reading Room, Microfilm Photographing Room and Microfilm Scanning Room.

Services:

Address: 3rd floor, North Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu, Guangzhou
Supervisor: Tang Lei
Telephone: (020) 83879725, 83849716
Email: jsb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  



Acquisitions & Cataloguing Section
　Acquisitions & Cataloguing Section is responsible for acquiring and cataloguing the Chinese books published in China mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. The Section consists of four groups:collecting and exchanging group, acquisition group, Chinese book cataloguing group and indexing group. The collecting and exchanging group accepts publications published in local province, collects internal publications by government departments, enterprises, factories and other organizations, accepts donated books and is engaged in exchanging materials among libraries. The acquisition group orders and purchases Chinese books published in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The Chinese book cataloguing group is in charge of classifying, subject indexing and processing of Chinese books and works out the digital catalogues for readers' search in accordance with CNMARC. The indexing group draws up the machine readable catalogue for the project of "Database of China National Retrospective Bibliography (1966-77)".
　The Section receives 2000 donated copies from the groups and readers, purchases more than 24000 kinds of domestic books and 1500 kinds of books from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau each year, and the annual classification and cataloguing amount reaches above 25000. The Section has catalogued the materials by CNMARC since 1996. The library has now stored 400,000 CNMARC bibliographies dating back to the year of 1966.

Address: 1st floor, North Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu, Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Mao Ling-wen
Telephone: (020) 83825706
Email: cbb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  

Cataloguing Center of Guangdong
　Founded in 1996, the center aims at promoting the standard of CNMARC (MARC of China National Bibliography), developing the centralized cataloguing and providing services concerning book exhibition and sales. Welcome to inquire centralized cataloguing and data services.

Address: 1st floor, North Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu, Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Wu Hao
Telephone: (020) 83831469
Email: cbb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  

Newspaper & Periodical Information Developing Center
　Newspaper & Periodical Information Developing Center of Sun Yat-Sen Library is comprised of four groups: the Restricted Reference Editorial group, the paper-clipping group, the on-line information developing group and the group responsible for the Reading Room of Overseas Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals.
　Restricted Reference Editorial group compiles and edits information from the overseas Chinese newspapers and periodicals and publishes a weekly restricted publication named Restricted Reference for Decision-Making. Commenced in the year 1991, Restricted Reference for Decision-making emphasizes the feedback information on overseas newspapers and periodicals towards the economic renovation reform and economic construction of China and Guangdong Province. It contains 17 hotspots, such as the state-own enterprises, the private economy, the exploration of Chinese economic renovation reforms and the like, and serves public-policy makers with high quality information. Besides, the group also issues other popular restricted publications, for instance, the monthly Restricted Cultural Reference and the quarterly Restricted Reference for Police, to meet the needs of different patrons. So far, the electronic versions of such restricted publications have been available for users, and a full-text database has also been set up.
　Paper-clipping group specializes in collecting and providing with the economic information relating to certain vocations. Culling marketing and new technology information, statistics, specific vocational policies, developing prospects and so on, from over 400 domestic newspapers and journals, the group offers clipping materials of more than 40 subjects, which would benefit the entrepreneurs and the start-up founders. Since 1994, thousands of enterprises have been served, and many of them are famous domestic corporations.
　On-line information developing group stresses the information from electronic publications, websites and databases available on internet. It makes use of over 300 internet resources and database resources, and makes up more than 30 special electronic paper-clipping columns and has established a full-text database containing 100,000 entries, which might be sent out to the requested patrons by email or inquiry-answering WebPages.
　Reading Room of Overseas Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals holds a collection of more than 200 kinds of overseas Chinese newspapers and periodicals published in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Korean, American, France, etc. Patrons with recommended letters are welcomed to the reading room.

Services:

Address: 4th floor, North Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu., Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Chen Xiao-min, Chen Xing
Telephone: (020) 83831669，83854427，83837549
Email: hwzx@zslib.com.cn                                                                  
　

Network Information Section:
　In order to develop document resources and embark on digital library construction, the Network Information Section, founded in 1991, co-operates with the China National Library, Zhanjiang Library and Beijing SuperStar Electronic Technology Company to construct the visual library resources on large scale. With imported equipments, it scans 5000 kinds of Chinese publications and produces the relevant PDG format computer files. Shared by the 163 and 169 network systems, readers now not only can be able to do the search by titles, authors, subjects, classified numbers and even the abstracts, but also obtain the electronic version of original copies via internet.

Main business and services:

Address: 3rd floor, North Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu, Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Xu Yi-xin
Telephone: (020) 83813217
E-mail: wlb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  




Public Relation Section　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　Located on the first floor, the Public Relation Section has an exhibition hall of about 550 square meters for holding exhibitions, lectures, conferences, training and other cultural activities. With exhibition facilities and professional personnel, the Section is able to hold any exhibitions and cultural activities.
　The Section provides the services such as answer questions about the Library, sell reading card on internet, retrieval the catalogues of the library's collections, electronic newspapers and magazines and collect information as well.

Services:

Address: 1st floor, South Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu, Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Liu Jing-ya
Telephone: (020) 83810637, 83831767
Email: ggb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  


Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals Section
　Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals Department includes Chinese Newspaper Reading Area on the first floor and Chinese Periodical Reading & Lending Area on the second floor with the collection of 7,000 newspapers and periodicals, 5,000 current newspapers and periodicals and about 300,000 bound volumes. The Section provides the services of Chinese newspaper reading, Chinese periodical reading and lending, searching database in CD-ROMs and reference service.

Services:

Address: 2nd floor, South Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu, Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Zhao You-qin
Telephone: (020) 83836102, 83879715
Email: bkb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  

　

Chinese Books Lending Section
　The major section of Sun Yat-Sen Library, the Chinese Books Lending Section consists of Chinese Book Circulation Area, Chinese Books Reading Room and the New Era Electronic Library on the second floor, Reading Room of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Materials and Study Room both on the third floor. The Circulation Area has a stock of 300,000 books while the Reading Area has a collection of 180,000 with 180 seats. Reading Room of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Materials has a stock of 50,000 books and the Study Room is provided with 900 seats. The New Era Electronic Library provides catalogue searching of the library collections and digital new books reading free of charge.

Services:

Address: 2nd Floor, South Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu., Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Liu Xin-lu
Telephone: (020) 83879731, 83825707
Email: jyb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  




Section of Books & Periodicals in Foreign Languages
　Section of Books & Periodicals in Foreign Languages has a stock of 200,000 books as well as a collections of 200,000 periodicals including English, Japanese, Russian, French, German and Italian, etc. Cooperated with Goethe Institute (Germany), the section has set up a German Information Reading Room providing readers with books, newspapers, periodicals and audio-visual items published by Germany. The Reference Books Room of the Section collects the famous reference information such as Chemical Abstract, Biological Abstract and E.I.. The Section has the database of ABI/INFORM Research as well.
　Services such as reference service and search of foreign language information, retrieval of the library collection of foreign publications, translation are provided.

Services:

Address: 3rd floor, South Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu., Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Zeng Shan-xiang
Telephone: (020) 83839757, 83825710
Email: wwb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  



Ancient Chinese Books Section
　Located on the fourth floor, the Ancient Chinese Book Section collects 660,000 rare materials including 20,000 rare books, 200,000 ancient Chinese books, 160,000 series books, 30,000 local chronicles, epigraphs of 30,000 items and 200,000 volumes of domestic Chinese newspapers before the P.R. China as well as those of Hong Kong, Macau and overseas before 1990.
　During the recent years, the Section has devoted to developing the ancient book literature. "The books, such as Summery Literature of Ke Jia", "Abstracts of the Library Collections from the Middle South and the South West", "Dictionary of Chinese Periodicals", "Official Documents of Guangdong Defense during Dao Guang Period of Qing Dynasty", "Manuscripts of Guangdong General History", "Cantonese Biography of Qing Dynasty" and "Dong Guan Chronicle During Chong Zhen Period of Ming Dynasty" are edited by the Department.

Services:

Address: 4th floor, South Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library, 213 Wen Ming Lu., Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Lin Zi-xiong
Telephone: (020) 83825711
Email: tcb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  


 

Wende Branch
　The Branch specially collects Guangdong local literature, Sun Yat-Sen literature, materials of Nanhai islands, autograph books of Guangdong authors, materials of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, historical materials of Qing Dynasty, paper-backed books and periodicals of the Republic of China. A special collection of Guangdong local literature，the Branch has nearly 80,000 kinds (more than 300,000 volumes altogether) of Guangdong local chronicles，pedigree, historical materials, old maps of Guangdong Province, Cantonese authors' writings, newspapers, periodicals, maps and pictures. The special collection of Sun Yat-Sen literature includes more than 5000 volumes/pieces of Sun Yat-Sen's works, biographies, reviews, deeds, pictures, records and materials about the Revolution of 1911. The Reading Room of the Branch provides the one-stop service of reading, consultation, duplication, binding and posting.

Services:

Address: 81 Wen De Lu, Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Ni Jun-ming
Telephone: (020) 83185866, 83330349
Email: dfwxb@zslib.com.cn                                                                  



Central Library Committee of Guangdong Province
　Founded in May, 1958, formed with 26 members, the Central Library Committee of Guangdong Province is a committee coordinating public libraries, university libraries and scientific libraries. Cooperating with members and libraries in Guangdong, the committee has the function as follows:

Address: 4th Floor, North Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library of Guangdong Province, 213 Wen Ming
              Lu,Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Wen Hui-ming
Telephone: (020)83831676, 83810164
Email: zst@zslib.com.cn                                                                  


 
Guangdong Library Association
　Founded in 1963, the Guangdong Library Association's mission is to take academic research, promote academic exchanges at home and abroad, develop and strengthen the relation with the libraries of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. GLA edits and publishes books, periodicals and material on the field of library, promotes and evaluates achievement of library research, promotes advanced technology, discovers and recommends talents and takes training for members and librarians.

Address: 2nd Floor, North Building of Sun Yat-Sen Library of Guangdong Province, 213 Wen Ming
              Lu., Guangzhou
Post Code: 510110
Supervisor: Lin Qing-yun
Telephone.: (020)83825701
Email: fdb@zslib.com.cn