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library more Donghua
University, one of the ¡°211 Development Project¡± leading universities
in China directly under the Ministry of Education. The University changed
its name to Donghua University ( DHU ) in August 1999. To meet the
university's rapid development, under the support of the ministry of textile
industry, a new library building which was one of the biggest libraries
in the country was built In 1982. The
library of Donghua university consists of two parts: central library on
West Yan¡¯An Campus and branch library on Song Jiang Campus. It is a library
& information center with Donghua characteristics, with a total area
of over 26,025 square meters of space and more than 1,738 seats. The collections
in our library amount to 1.077 million volumes, including 3,289 journals
and 14,398 books in Chinese and foreign languages. Our
collection of electronic resources is growing rapidly and now includes
10 CD-ROMs and 20 online databases. Our
library provides high-quality services to over 20,000 students, faculty
members, administrators, and researchers of university. The
collection in our library focuses mainly on the fields of engineering,
management, and art. The central library¡¯s collection includes Textile
Engineering, Chemical Fibers, Textile Materials, Macromolecular Materials,
Dyeing, Textile Machinery, and Fashion. There is also a collection of
early books and periodicals of Textile and Chemical Fibers in Chinese
and foreign languages. Among them, some rare ones are of great value for
research work. In
recent years, the library has made a great progress in many ways including
sharing of resources, improving service quality and efficiency, extending
service time, and developing useful software. What¡¯s more, the library
has improved UNIX edition of HUIWEN searching engine so that all users
on local area network can use Web Browser to get records of collections
and manage their account. In addition, the branch library on Song Jiang
campus has been connected to the local area network of the central library
successfully. According
to the characteristics of Donghua University, the library established
Textile CD-ROM data base£¬under
the support of regional network searching engine with the CD-ROM date
base of the library, which offers all local users in our university free
search results. To
meet the need of development of subject, Donghua library has joined the
CALIS, a state key project. The library plays a role of ¡®textile¡¯ on
the chain of china academic library & information system, and takes
on some related projects, such as ¡®new textile data base¡¯. The
library has built electronic consulting room and electronic-reading room.
Our CD-ROM searching engine has been among the few most advanced key universities
in the country. The
library of Donghua university has a young research faculty consisting
of doctors, masters and bachelors. It provides abundant reliable
and up-to-date information in scientific and technological researches,
esp. for textile scientific research work to all textile universities
and enterprises around china. It also serves in such fields
as opening new research orientation, evaluating and appraising scientific
achievements, applying for patents and so on. The
Library of Donghua university actively participates in extensive cooperative
activities with many libraries. The central library gives priority
to engineering as well as textile, and the two branch libraries are characterized
with engineering, management and art. The central library has made great
effort to develop network of library system and digital resource, so that
all distant student users in our university can share the resources freely.
Donghua
Library is forging ahead to the aim of building itself into an advanced
digital library. As a vital textile link of CALIS, it provides high quality
information service for socialistic modernization. |