Liaoning Provincial library, formerly known as Northeast China Library, was officially established on Aug.15, 1948 in Harbin, and then moved to Shengyang in February 1949. The present name "Liaoning Provincial Library (LPL)" was adopted from 1955, which was the first large size public library ever directly established under the leadership of Chinese Communist Party.It was opened for trial in August 2015, covering a gross floor area of 100 thousand square meters.
Liaoning Provincial library has a rich collection of classic books, ancient English books, Japanese books, Russian books, as well as a large number of northeast local literatures. The quality of its book collection ranks top among other provincial libraries in China.
Over the years, with the service concept of "innovation, sharing, openness and equality", Liaoning Provincial Library has constantly made innovation in service mode, deepened the service content, extended the scope of services and made full use of the library's facilities, documentations and technical resources to offer readers high-quality and efficient services.
It has been highly praised by the readers and the higher authorities and won the tile of "National First-class Library", "National Advanced Collective on Culture Work", "Spiritual Civilization Example Unit", "National Advanced Collective on Minorities' Ancient Book Work" and "National Helping the Disabled Advanced Collective", etc.
In recent years, LPL has given into full play its role in building the modern public cultural service system to actively promote various key projects and people-benefiting projects of cultural service, and constantly enhance the supply capacity of public culture. The protection project of classics, the promotion project of e-library, as well as the construction of public e-reading rooms have achieved remarkable results; National reading festival, cultural activities of two festivals, science week activities, library service publicity week, Children's Day activities, millions of books activity, cultural volunteer service and other public welfare cultural activities have created a strong atmosphere of reading, which has been well received by the readers. "World of sign language", "face-to-face reading", "computer class for seniors", "Utopia for children's reading", "reading·experiencing library" and other brand activities have met the cultural needs of special groups through warm and pragmatic services.
Endless reading, endless service. In the future development, LPL will further emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, forge ahead, make innovations in a pioneering spirit, to enrich the people's spiritual and cultural life, and promote the development of Liaoning public library by leaps and bounds.
