Notice on Services of Chinese and Foreign Reserved Books Reading Room

Collections: Chinese books published since May 1949 (subject to bibliographical data).

Form of services: open-shelf reading, close-shelf viewing, reservation for viewing, relevant documents consultation.

Reading requires: 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 – 5:00 pm Closed on national holidays.

1. Reserved versions are important collections of our library. To ensure the intactness and safety of sample collections, viewing reserved versions is limited to books inaccessible to readers via borrowing service (open-shelf or closed-shelf) of our library.

2. Reading open-shelf documents requires no card; reserved viewing of closed-shelf documents require relevant voucher of this reading room.

3. Please put your bags and books on a locker and put your beverage on the cabinet in the entrance.

4. Check the preservation of this, the bibliographic inquiry machine on the self-retrieval of the title and the letter number to fill out the solicitation list, by the staff to extract. Each time to limit the 6, read the biography to pay the staff to the library.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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 prevent against 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 don’t put your rain gear on reading chair or table; please discard waste paper or other rubbish on trash basket (can).

8. 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.

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: 87986108/87988569