The Profile of the Library of Guizhou Institute of Technology

Guizhou Institute of Technology is a full-time ordinary undergraduate college of science and engineering established on April 18, 2013 in response to the needs of Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government for the application-oriented talents of science and engineering by implementing the strategy of strengthening the province by industry and the urbanization driving strategy. The school library has a total construction area of 47000 square meters and is equipped with electronic reading rooms, reader self-study areas, leisure areas, open shelf reading areas, classic reading areas, new book display areas, newspaper reading areas, exhibition halls, seminar rooms, etc., with 2471 reading seats. Our library is a member of the China Higher Education Literature Security System (CALIS), providing open academic exchange and information retrieval services for all teachers and students in the university.

The library has four management and service institutions: office, technical department, resource construction department, and circulation department. The library currently has 24 librarians, including 1 professor, 3 associate professors, 11 intermediate professors, and 11 master's students. The construction of the teaching staff has been continuously strengthened. In recent years, 7 scientific research projects have been approved, including 1 national level project, 3 provincial and departmental level projects, and 2 school level projects; Published over 50 academic papers in public journals.

The library currently has a collection of over 1.04 million paper books, with more than 360000 varieties, and 7363 Chinese bound journals, with 14829 volumes.

The library has 10 digital resource databases, including Elsevier SD, ACS, EI and other foreign language databases, as well as online services such as China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform, Renmin University Press and Publication Materials, GTheses Global Master's and Doctoral Dissertations, Chaoxing Reading Show Knowledge Base, MeTeL National Highway Multimedia Teaching Resource Library, and New Academic Foreign High Impact Journal Integration Service Platform; Establish a self built institutional knowledge base for Guizhou University of Technology, as well as document service platforms such as Chaoxing Mobile Library. There are 26916 electronic journals in both Chinese and foreign languages, with a local mirrored data volume of 42TB. The collection of literature covers all the professional disciplines offered by the school, including geological resources and geological engineering, environment, mining, metallurgy, machinery, materials, urban planning and environmental design, management science and engineering, electrical automation, computer information technology, civil engineering, transportation, aerospace, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, etc.

The construction of library network has initially realized service networking, resource digitization and management automation. It has configured with the basic network equipment, the central computer room backbone bandwidth 1000 megabytes, desktop bandwidth 100 megabytes, Wi-Fi full coverage, and equipped with relatively perfect service facilities, such as a touch-screen newspaper reading machine, a LED display screen, ten bibliographic retrieval machines and a electronic reading room, providing readers with dynamic information about the library in resources, services, management; The off-campus access system of digital resources has been introduced to authorize readers to use library electronic resources without IP and geographical restrictions. In addition, the library also has introduced the mobile library, Duxiu Knowledge Search Database, WeChat service and other document information service platform to achieve mobile reading services.

The library is currently open 96 hours a week. Open-shelf borrowing is adopted as the main service mode, taking reader service as the basic principle, taking reader demand as the starting point of all work, providing equal service to readers, embodying humanistic care in service and management, and providing high-quality, efficient and professional services to teachers and students. By means of standardized management, we will constantly improve infrastructure and network environment, strengthen the construction of library resources, pay attention to characteristics, and provide strong literature support and guarantee for teaching and scientific research. In addition, we will take full advantage of electronic literature resources and network book resources, carry out information resources co-construction and sharing, carry out the training seminars of literature propaganda and reader literature retrieval, guide students to make full use of the library. In the meant time, we organize reading promotion activities, such as "4.23 World Reading Day" and "Autumn Reading Season", striving to reading promotion, guiding teachers and students to improve reading quality and humanistic quality, providing a high level of intellectual support for the school teaching and scientific research work .

Library Curator: Liu Qi

Address:  Doctor Road, Dangwu Town, Gui'an New District, Guizhou Province

Zip code: 550025

EMAIL: [email protected]