Hefei City Library is a state owned cultural institution that collects, classifies, reserves and provides the press materials for the reader. For HeFei City, it is the bibliotheca & literature center, it is the information & network center as well as the important window to spiritual culture.

Its predecessor was HeFei Country ZhongHe Library established in 1923. In 1958, Hefei City Library was authorized to set up, which covered 250 M², employed 3 persons and collected 10, 000 volumes. In 1968, it was merged into Culture Bureau. In 1973, it moved back to No.612 in MeiLing Road. A new office building of 2,010 M² was built in 1974 and completed 4 years later. On 29th, July, 1978 famous poet GuoMoruo wrote the name for Hefei City Library.

Hefei City Library has the collection of 400,000 volumes. In the field of social science, it covers local literature, person biography, materials published in Hongkong &Taiwan District and the photocopied newspaper printed before the Liberation, the Imperial Collection of Four and Extended Imperial Collection of Four are also collected; in the field of natural science, some books are against architecture, light industry, electron, food, medicine, farming and fishing.

In Hefei City Library, the Librarian is responsible for everything and every person. The Library Administration includes Office, Administrative Dept, Network Service Center, Classifying Cataloging Dept, Guidance Dept, Reading Room, Circulation Dept, Collection Dept and Information Service. Reading Room includes Periodicals Reading Room and Newspaper Reading Room, both of which are opened to the publication completely. With the card, the reader can look over all the latest materials around the world. In Circulation Dept, where the part-open system and close system are implemented together, the reader can lend any of the books from 260,000 volumes. With the OPAC system and catalog index, the reader can find the needed book quickly and correctly, of course, the reader can make a subscription. In Information Service, the reader can obtain information, copy the document and compile the literature.

The endowment from JiaChengkuan, ShiYiming, ZhouZhongzheng and SiJingyi add our collection. At present, our collection system has already been into operation, our service quality has been further improved. From content to form, in the past, the single and simple borrow-lend system was applied while right now place, title, and to-door service are provided. We also hold all kinds of training, lecture and reading speech. There are two special reading rooms for the children, where the children can not only read what he wants to know but also participate in the reading speech.

From the top to the bottom, the workers changed the traditional service view, they cancel the rest weekend and supply the service everyday, in other words, welcome to Hefei City Library everyday.

In 1998, under the Hefei Administration’s authorization, Hefei City Library of 15,000M² was reconstructed with the investment of 80,000,000RMB, which is a highlighted culture project with the combination of Chinese and Western architecture style in HeFei City. It locates along Amber Pond that is to the west scenery of Circular City Park, equipped such an intelligent system that you can gain a lot of services, in total, there are 1,600 kinds of magazine and 160 kinds of newspaper, 20 reading rooms with 600 seats, 10 Dissertation Discussion Room and Multifunction Meeting Room, and Academic Report Room equipped with simultaneous interpretation system. We cooperate together with Chinese Digital Library, Chinese Academic Magazine, WanFang Date to set up a database with 2TB information for the citizens.