Notice on Services of Open-Shelf Books Reading Room

Collections: Foreign books published in recent ten years, Chinese literatures published in recent five years, Chinese books in social sciences and natural sciences (subject to bibliographical data).

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

Borrowing requires: Your reader’s card of Zhejiang Library.

Opening hours: Tuesday through Sunday 9:00 am – 8:30 pm  Until further notice on national holidays.

1.  Exemption from reading; for borrowing procedures, subject to the museum readers card.

2.  Please use book board when reading books stored on open shelves. You’re allowed to take up to 12 books at a time to allow more readers to have the opportunity to get access to document resources. When done, please put them to book cart; our staff will reshelve them.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

This room’s service call: 87988577    Complaints and suggestions: 87986108/87988569