Location

Opening hours

Description

Required card types

Inquires

(0571)

01 Reference Books and Document Retrieval Reading Room

Tuesday through Saturday

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Provide retrieval documents and Chinese reference books published in recent eight years

Viewing requires no card

87986169

02 Reading Room for Chinese newspapers and Periodicals Published in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and Foreign Countries

Provide collections after May 1949

Viewing requires employer’s recommendation letter and reader’s card or valid identity document

87986160

03 Reserved Versions of Chinese Current Newspapers Reading Room

Provide Chinese periodicals and organizations of the current year

Viewing requires reader’s card, senior’s card, ID card and other valid identity documents

04 Chinese and Foreign Back Issue Search Room

Provide newspapers and periodicals published since May 1949

05 Specially Collected Rare Ancient Books Reading Room

Tuesday through Saturday

09:00 am -11:30 am
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Ancient books published before the period of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (including microfilms)

Viewing requires reader’s card, senior’s card, ID card and other valid identity documents

87988597

06 Self-study room

8:30 am - 5: 00 pm

(Open when self-study room on the 1st floor is full)

Bring study supplies your own; water fountain is in basement

87986319