Guangxi Library
{{Short description|Public library in Guangxi, China}}
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| name = Guangxi Library
| native_name = 广西壮族自治区图书馆
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| country = China
| type = Public library
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| established = 1924
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| location = Nanning{{cite book|title=College Library Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SepMAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Hunan University Press}}
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The Guangxi Library ({{zh|s=广西图书馆|t=廣西圖書館}}), also known as the Library of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,{{cite news|url=http://www.gxlib.org.cn/Article_Show2.asp?ArticleID=387|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209082120/http://www.gxlib.org.cn/Article_Show2.asp?ArticleID=387|title=Introduction of Guangxi Library|url-status=dead|accessdate=2021-05-07|archive-date=2006-02-09|work=Guangxi Library}} is an autonomous region-level public library{{cite news|url=http://www.gx.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2020-04/15/c_1125856698.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416055047/http://www.gx.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2020-04/15/c_1125856698.htm|title=Guangxi libraries create a reassuring reading environment for readers|url-status=dead|date=2020-04-15|archive-date=2020-04-16|work=Xinhua News Agency}} of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, located at No. 61, Minzu Avenue, Nanning City.{{cite book|title=Guangxi Statistical Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajflAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=China Statistics Press}}
It is the largest comprehensive provincial-level public library in Guangxi.{{cite web|url=http://wlt.gxzf.gov.cn/zwgk/jggk/zsjg/t5679964.shtml|title=Library of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region|author=|date=2020-09-18|accessdate=|work=wlt.gxzf.gov.cn|archive-date=2021-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507150357/http://wlt.gxzf.gov.cn/zwgk/jggk/zsjg/t5679964.shtml|url-status=dead}}
History
The predecessor of the Guangxi Library was the Xuanhua Library built in 1924,{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of China: Biology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HCpMAAAAYAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Encyclopedia of China Publishing House}} renamed the Guangxi Provincial Second Library in 1931, the Second Library of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 1958,{{cite book|title=The Complete Directory of Chinese Libraries and Intelligence Agencies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sLwIruB_3bAC|year=1995|publisher=Northeastern University Press|isbn=978-7-81006-938-0}} and the present name in 1980.{{cite book|author=|title=Documentary Resources Building and Library Collections Workbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V6QUAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Bibliographic Literature Press}}
Notable holdings
In 1987, a collection of Bai Chongxi's speeches during his time in Guangxi in the 1930s, his correspondence with his colleagues and friends,
as well as Mainland newspapers and periodicals before 1949, were discovered in the Guangxi Library.{{cite web |url=https://www.dwnews.com/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/59759395/%E7%99%BD%E5%85%88%E5%8B%87%E7%88%B6%E4%BA%B2%E7%99%BD%E5%B4%87%E7%A6%A7%E4%B8%8D%E4%BD%86%E5%8F%8D%E8%92%8B%E8%BF%98%E5%8F%8D%E5%85%B1|title=Bai Xiangyong: Father Bai Chongxi not only anti-Jiang but also anti-Communist|author=|date=2016-08-08|accessdate=|work=Duowei News}}