| Facilities |
Location |
Introduction |
| Information Desk |
Main Hall, 1st Floor |
It is mainly responsible for reception, advisory services, registry and compilation of the complaints, suggestions and commendations, interlibrary loans. (Tel：83883636) |
| Card Handling Office |
East side, 1st floor |
It is mainly responsible for the handling, loss report, reissuing, withdrawing and annual registry of Library Card of Tianjin Library and Tianjin public Libraries. |
| Study Room |
East side, 1st floor |
224 seats. |
| Exhibition Hall |
East side, 1st floor |
It can undertake all kinds of external exhibitions of public welfare purposes. |
| Reading Area for Children, the Elderly, and Persons with Visual Impairments |
West side, 1st floor |
It provides open-shelf borrowing and reading services of 15,000 children's books and children's magazines of over 300 categories. It provide reading services for persons with visual impairments with a thousand books in braille, audio recordings, 6 special facilities for the blind; There are 2000 collections of books for the elderly with 381 reading seats. |
| Self-Service Returning |
Main Hall, 1st Floor |
It offers self-service returning service of all Chinese books and foreign languages books. |
| Lecture Hall |
West side, 1st floor |
With over 540 seats, the Lecture Hall is the place for lectures, trainings and performances. |
| Readers' Restaurant |
East side, 1st floor |
Serving lunch for readers. |
| Shuxiangyuan Drinks |
East side, 1st floor |
With free reading seats, Shuxiangyuan sells drinks and snacks for readers |
| Circulation and Reading Area of Chinese Collections |
East side, 2nd and 3rd floor |
It mainly provides open-shelf borrowing and reading services of 11 categories of humanities and social science books, 5 categories of popular science and technology books (medicine, agriculture, life services, architectural decoration, and comprehensive categories), 450,000 books in total, with 302 seats. With RFID self-service of borrowing and returning, and outside 24-hour self-service library, the Library provides 24/7 service. |
| Circulation and Reading Area of Chinese Periodicals |
East side, 2nd floor |
It covers more than 3400 kinds of social science Chinese periodicals and more than 100 kinds of science and technology Chinese periodicals with 140 seats. |
| Reading Area of Chinese Newspapers |
West side, 2nd floor |
Mainly covers over 500 kinds of Chinese newspapers and five kinds of Hong Kong and Taiwan newspapers. It offers the reading service of Chinese back-issue newspapers since the founding of the PRC with 60 reading seats. |
| Reading Area of Chinese Periodicals |
East side, 3rd floor |
This area mainly provides reading service of back-issue Chinese social science periodicals (bound volumes) since the founding of PRC and 300 kinds of new popular periodicals with 72 reading seats. |
| Music Area |
West side, 3rd floor |
It covers over 14800 CD materials of all kinds, including classical music, pop music, folk music, operas and so on. It is equipped with Marantz CD player, Ultrasonic HIFI headphones and 32 seats. |
| Music Lecture Hall |
West side, 3rd floor |
It regularly holds music activities including music theory lectures, music appreciation lessons, small chamber music performances, and so on, with professional audio equipment, Steinway grand piano and large projection screen and 70 seats for the audience. |
| Digital Resources Area |
West side,4th floor |
Equipped with 150 computers, this area provides readers with the reading and downloading services of the online resources and digital literature resources. |
| Government Information Disclosure Area |
West side,4th floor |
Designated by Tianjin Municipal People's Government, this area has 22 seats for readers and 10 computers for dedicated query, offering the public with services of government information disclosure, printing, copying and so on. Besides, it provides the Gazettes of the State Council of the PRC and the Tianjin Municipal Government free of charge. |
| Conference Hal |
East side,4th floor |
Equipped with a set of oval conference tables, 80 seats, audio and video playback system, electronic teaching whiteboard, video conferencing systems and wireless conference systems, this area holds various small and medium-sized trainings and lectures, library internal trainings, conferences and audio and video demonstrations and other activities. |
| Multimedia Room |
East side,4th floor |
Equipped with a set of audio and video playback system, including the projector, 100-inch projection screen, wall-mounted speakers, wireless microphones and 40 seats, this room is for the use of audio and video resource presentations, trainings and small meetings and other activities |
| Film Material Area |
East side,4th floor |
It covers more than 52,000 pieces of film collections including Chinese and foreign classic films, TV series, large comprehensive documentaries, health topic films, tourism documentaries, operas, science DVD and so on, for teaching, entertainment and appreciation, with 32 sets of seats and 32-inch flat HD display and Blu-ray DVD player. |
| Reading Area of General Collections |
East side,5th floor |
It offers reading service for readers with the Chinese social science books published after 2010, and Chinese social science reference books with 48 seats. |
| Reading Area of Hong Kong, Taiwan Collections |
East side,5th floor |
Kong and Taiwan with 36 seats. |
| Circulation and Reading Area of Foreign Languages Collections |
East side,5th floor |
It mainly provides open-shelf borrowing and reading services of social science books published after 1975, and science and technology foreign language books published after 2000 with 52 seats. |
| Reading Area of Modern Literature and Local Literature |
West side,5th floor |
It mainly provides reading services of Chinese books, newspapers and periodicals, Tianjin local literature, as well as earlier Japanese and English books published in the period of the Republic of China. |
| Historical Literature Reading Area |
West side,5th floor |
It mainly provides inside-library reading services of the original version of the ancient books, yearly photocopies, microfilms and the copies of the Chinese ancient books, with 56 seats. Only yearly photocopies are open-shelf. Reading services of other documents depend on the status of the ancient books and the actual needs of readers. To read the fine version of ancient books, readers need to bring the present letters from their organizations and their valid ID documentations. |
