Ürümqi City Library

Ürümqi City Library on the left side of the building

The Ürümqi City Library (ئۈرۈمچى شەھەرلىك كۇتۇپخانا, Chinese: 乌鲁木齐市图书馆) is a public library situated in the Shuimogou, Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The Urumqi City Library was established in 1979, although it lacked a permanent location until it relocated to its current building in 2003. In 2018, it was designated as the National first-class library.

History

In September 1979, the Urumqi City Library was officially founded, initially including a librarian and seven staff members. For over 20 years since its inception, Urumqi City Library has encountered the predicament of lacking a physical location. Initially, the Urumqi City Library leased fewer than 30 square meters of meeting rooms from the Urumqi Municipal Bureau of Culture for office space and book collection. Subsequently, it relocated to the basement of a printing factory, and in 1981, it utilized the upper room of Mao Zemin's Residence Memorial Hall as a temporary bookstore while establishing a boarding house in the courtyard of the former residence for office purposes. And borrowed from Zhongshan Road, a rustic home providing literature. The Urumqi City Library has relocated to 14 different venues, including manufacturing workplaces, school classrooms, and private basements. Consequently, the residents of Urumqi referred to the Urumqi City Library as a "listed library" or "guerrilla library." Due to the absence of a permanent location, the Urumqi Library possessed a collection of 230,000 books in 2001; however, only approximately 10,000 books were disseminated, while the remainder remained packed and sealed.[1][2]

This persisted until 2005. Construction of the new Urumqi Library commenced in October 2003, and on September 28, 2005, the Urumqi Library, together with the Urumqi Museum, was relocated to the library's museum facility on Nanhu South Road in the Urumqi City, Shumogou District, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.[3] On August 13, 2018, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism designated the Urumqi City Library as a national-level library.[4]

In 2023, the Urumqi City Library had a refurbishment and was inaugurated for public access.[5]

References

  1. ^ 乌鲁木齐市党史地方志编纂委员会, ed. (1999). 乌鲁木齐市志 第六卷文化/文物. 乌鲁木齐: 新疆人民出版社. p. 141. ISBN 7-228-05408-3.
  2. ^ 祝霄 (2001-03-30). "乌鲁木齐图书馆在呻吟". 工人时报.
  3. ^ 李国新 (2008). 中国图书馆协会 (ed.). 中国图书馆年鉴, 2006. 北京: 现代出版社. p. 753. ISBN 978-7-80188-982-9.
  4. ^ "第六次全国县级以上公共图书馆评估定级上等级图书馆名单". 中华人民共和国中央人民政府. 2018-08-13. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  5. ^ "乌鲁木齐市图书馆完成升级改造重新开放 ——记者探访优化升级后的"城市大书房"". 乌鲁木齐市米东区人民政府. 2023-12-09. Archived from the original on 2024-02-21. Retrieved 2024-02-21.

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