Notices on Services of Foreign Newspapers, Chinese and Foreign Art Picture Books, and Foreign Donated Documents Reading Rooms

Collections: Foreign newspapers issued in the latest two to three months, foreign-language periodicals published since 2001, and data of Goethe-Institut German Data Center; Chinese and foreign art books published in recent ten years, including Chinese and foreign art books and periodicals in painting, calligraphy and photography; donated documents (include documents of three libraries of Fukui, Shizuoka and Tochigi, Japan) and materials stored by the United Union (subject to bibliographical data).

Form of services: open-shelf reading and relevant documents consultation.

Opening hours: Monday through Saturday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Closed on national holidays.

1. Reading requires no card.

2. Please store your bags and books into a locker, please put beverages on cabinet in the entrance.

3. You’re allowed to take up to one newspaper, three periodicals or five books at a time to allow more readers to have the opportunity to get access to document resources. After done, staff will reshelf the documents. When done, please put these newspapers and books to book cart; our staff will reshelve them.

4. Please take good care of all documents and public properties and respect and protect intellectual property. Please don’t annotate, tamper, fold, smear, cut or tear documents. Please don’t shoot documents or take documents outside the reading room without authorization, the violators will be handled in accordance with relevant regulations of our library.

5. If you want to photocopy a document, please go through registration procedures at service counter. Please return the document immediately after the photocopying. The procedures will not be processed 15 minutes before the room is closed.

6. Reading room advocates civilized behavior. Please keep a quiet, clean and neat environment for reading. No smoking, no spitting; please don’t take food or beverage to the reading room; please put your belongings on a locker, and put cap and rain gear on designated place to avoid damage to books; please set your cellphone on silent or vibrate mode, and leave the reading room to answer a call; please don’t occupy the seat for long rest or sleep; don’t put rain gear on reading table, chair or bookrack; please discard waste paper or other rubbish on trash basket (can).

7. Please take good care of your belongings to prevent against unnecessary losses. Please keep your laptop, wallet, cellphone and other valuable belongings with you all the time. Please take your belongings away when you leave the reading room.

8. If you have any other need, please feel free to consult our staff. Zhejiang Library will serve you wholeheartedly.

This room’s service call: 87988383    Complaints and suggestions: 87987769/87988569