Fujian Provincial Library
福建省圖書館

Address: 227 Hudong Road, Gulou district, Fuzhou, Fujian province
Opening hours: 8:30 am-8 pm
Closed Thursdays (except for national holidays)
General admission: Free
Tel: 0591-87592022
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The exterior of Fujian Provincial Library. [Photo/IC]

Overview
Fujian Provincial Library (FJLib) is a provincial-level comprehensive public library with a history for over 100 years, a multi-function academic service institution open to the public for free, providing publication circulation, reference services, computer retrieval, multi-media reading, collaboration and tutoring, is also a provincial center for book collection, cataloging, information services, ancient book preservation, development of local resources, research on library science and operation training, and a provincial-level base of continued education. It has 41,700 square meters (including 17,900 for Fujian Juvenile & Children’s Library) of floor space and a collection of 4.51 million items and 835TB of electronic resources.

Honors
Since 1985, it has been awarded the distinction of “provincial-level civilized unit” by the Fujian Provincial Committee and Fujian Provincial People’s Government 14 times in a row.

In 2009, it was ranked among “the Fourth Advanced Units for National Spiritual Civilization Construction”.