Beibei Library
{{Short description|Public library in Chongqing, China}}
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The Beibei Library ({{zh|s=北碚图书馆|t=北碚圖書館}}) is a Chongqing-based public library in China, located at No. 26 Park Village, Beibei, Chongqing. It was originally named the Gorge District Library,{{cite book|title=Southwest Tourism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1dYuAAAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Sichuan People's Publishing House}} founded by Lu Zuofu on May 27, 1928.{{cite book|title=Sichuan Library Business History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IsqEAAAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Sichuan University Press|isbn=978-7-5614-1007-3}} At its inception, it had an area of {{cvt|499.5|m2}} and a collection of more than four hundred books.{{cite news|url=http://cqbblib.org.cn/webs/list/notice/65.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813003945/http://cqbblib.org.cn/webs/list/notice/65.html|title=Overview of Beibei Library|url-status=dead|date=2013-04-30|archive-date=2013-08-13|work=Beibei Library}} It is the most complete collection of newspapers and magazines published during the Republic of China period in the whole of China.{{cite book|author1=Yang Yan|author2=Xu Chengbing|title=A History of the Development of Official Cinema in the Period of Republic of China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zwSAQAAMAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Communication University of China Press|isbn=978-7-81127-387-8|pages=1-}}
Beibei Library is a national first-level library{{cite web |url=https://epaper.cqwb.com.cn/html/202004/14/content_57933.html|title=Remembering Mr. Lu Zuofu and Beibei Park|author=|date=2020-04-14|accessdate=|work=Enlightenment Daily}} and a national key unit for the protection of ancient books in China.{{cite web |url=http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2018-05-28/doc-ihcaquev5100877.shtml|title=Beibei Library's 90th Anniversary Celebration Held at Beibei Library Lecture Hall|author=|date=2018-05-28|accessdate=|work=Sina}}
History
After the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Beibei Library received a gift of nearly 10,000 volumes of news weeklies from the United States Information Agency.{{cite web |url=https://epaper.gmw.cn/zhdsb/html/2020-02/12/nw.D110000zhdsb_20200212_1-05.htm|title=Lu Zuofu's life-long relationship with the library|author=|date=2020-02-12|accessdate=|work=Enlightenment Daily}}
In November 1945, Lu Zuofu merged Minsheng Company Library, Public Library of Beibei Administration, and Library of the West China Academy of Sciences to form the "Beibei Library".{{cite book|author=Liu Chonglai|title=Pioneers of Rural Construction in Western China: A Study of Lu Zuofu and Rural Construction in the Republic of China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LVkSAQAAMAAJ| year=2007|publisher=People's Publishing House|isbn=978-7-01-006070-5}}
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Category:National first-grade libraries of China
Category:Libraries in Chongqing
Category:Libraries established in 1928
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