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The Shandong University Library evolved from the libliotheca of Shandong Imperial College founded in 1901, which was one of the earliest modern libraries in China. In the process of its evolution, many well-known scholars and men of library science – such as Pi Gaopin, Liang Shiqiu, Lu Kanru, Wu Fuheng, Sun Changxi – have presided over its operation.

July 2000 witnessed the merger of the former Shandong University, Shandong Medical University and Shandong University of Technology, the result of which was the new Shandong University. The three libraries belonging to the three institutions accordingly merged into a new one, which brought about new development to the university library. In 2010, the Chiang Chen Library got a new area of 11,745 square meters in the Zhixin Building, Central Campus, adding greatly to its former floor space of 33,599 sq m. In October 2011, a new library with 19,722 sq m in the Xinglongshan Campus started operating. While the original number of seats in the university library was 1,882, it is now 2,823 with the addition of the Chiang Chen Zhen Library. The library practices a general-branch organizational system. Under the general library are six branches of arts and sciences, politics and law, medicine, engineering, the one on Xinglongshan Campus, the one on the Software Campus and two centers for literature resources and network information technology.

The Central Campus Library covers an area of 12,800 sq m and has a collection of more than 1,236,000 books in Chinese and foreign languages. With two seminar rooms and 486 reading seats, it is home to the main library of the SDU Library, the Literature Resources Construction Center and the Information Research Institute. The library mainly collects books for social sciences and natural sciences. It has a rich collection of literature for the liberal arts and the literature for sciences mostly covers mathematics, physics and chemistry.

The Chiang Chen Library – located at Block D, in the Zhixin building in the Central Campus – has a floor space of 11,745 sq m and a collection of more than 1,162,000 books and journals in Chinese and foreign languages. With abundant information sharing space and 763 reading seats, the Chiang Chen Library is where the Special Collection Department and the Network Information Technology Center is located. The Chiang Chen Library mainly collects books for literature, history and philosophy and it holds more than 80,000 secondary ancient books, including the Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature, historical materials of the the Republic of China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Taiwan books and other large series of books.

The Hongjialou Campus Library covers an area of 3,617 sq m and holds more than 297,000 books and journals in Chinese and foreign languages, with an information sharing space, one seminar room and 303 reading seats. The Hongjialou Campus Library has a wide variety of literature and it is rich in literature covering the arts and foreign languages.

The Baotuquan Campus Library covers an area of 6,721 sq m and holds more than 530,000 books and journals in Chinese and foreign languages, with an information sharing space and 620 reading seats. This library is one of the members of the libraries of medical and pharmaceutical universities in China and is the central library in Shandong province for Chinese Biomedical Literature. The collection in the Baotuquan Campus Library is mostly for medicine and biology, with a collection system dominated by medical and biological literature – both in Chinese and foreign languages – taking shape.

The Qianfoshan Campus Library covers an area of 9,009 sq m and it holds more than 814,000 books and journals in Chinese and foreign languages, with an information sharing space, three seminar rooms and 332 reading seats. The collection in the Qianfoshan Campus Library focuses on the fields of materials science, mechanical engineering, control science, energy and power engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering and hydraulic engineering.

The Xinglongshan Campus Library covers an area of 19,722 sq m and holds more than 500,000 books and journals in Chinese and foreign languages, with an information sharing space, eight seminar rooms and 2,470 reading seats. The library mainly collects books for liberal education and features books for engineering majors, while the collection of industrial technology covers most of the engineering majors.

The Software Park Campus Library covers an area of 1,530 sq m and holds more than 105,000 books and journals in Chinese and foreign languages – with an information sharing space, one seminar room and 249 reading seats. The collection system in the Software Park Campus Library focuses on the fields of computer science, physics, social sciences, philosophy, language and literature.

The Qingdao Campus Library holds more than 740,000 books and journals in Chinese and foreign languages, covering 42,000 sq m in phrase one. With 17 seminar rooms and 2,206 reading seats, there are a conference hall, a road show room, a creative area, an experience area for new technology and other functional areas – such as the rehearsal room, recording room, photographic room, chess room and a room for painting and calligraphy. The Qingdao Campus Library holds all kinds of books and journals for social sciences and natural sciences, while there are also abundant legal books and political documents.

The collection of paper literature of the university library at present comprises 4,434,296 copies, among which are 1,748,668 copies in Chinese are for social sciences, 1,158,146 for natural sciences and 60,760 for comprehensive reference. There are 453,773 copies of books in foreign languages, 151,584 copies of bound volumes of journals in Chinese for social sciences, 143,197 for natural sciences and 61,758 for comprehensive reference. Those in foreign languages amount to 209,792. The number of ancient volumes totals 385,546. Meanwhile there are 61,209 Master's thesis copies and doctoral dissertations. In addition, the library has numbers of e-resources: 201 data bases, 800,000 e-books in Chinese, 770,000 in foreign languages; 9,556 e-journals in Chinese, 28,000 in foreign languages; 3,150,000 e-papers in Chinese and 1,900,000 in foreign languages.

The SDU Library is one of the first member libraries of the China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS) in higher education institutions, a CALIS service center of Shandong Province, the disciplinary center of the China Academic Social Sciences and Humanities Library (CASHL), the working station of new science and technology reference for the National Ministries of Health and Education – as well as a secretariat of the Library Commission of Higher Education Institutions, Shandong Province.

The working aims of the university library are: to keep forging ahead, blaze new trails, endeavoring to promote the building of a first-class university of the world.