Notice on Services of Local Documents Reading Room

Collections: provide document literatures about Zhejiang since the establishment of new China, mainly including local annuals, local chronicles, local histories, local overviews, genealogies, maps, historical accounts compiled by the CPPCC, compilations, newspapers, and periodicals, etc. (subject to  bibliographical data).

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

Reading requires: Your Zhejiang Library’s reader’s card, senior’s card, or valid identity documents, such as ID card, military ID card, passport, and home-visit permit for Taiwanese compatriots.

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

1. Reading requires no card.

2. Please store your bags, books or other articles into a locker, please put beverage on cabinet in the entrance.

3. In reading room, 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.

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. To protect the documents, local newspapers published before 1978 are not allowed to be photocopied; if you have any need, please consult our staff about the use of newspaper and periodical databases.

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 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; please put your belongings on a lock, 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: 87986569    Complaints and suggestions: 87986456/87988569