Jinan City Library is a national library, the national key protection unit of ancient books, for the comprehensive public **** library, was founded in July 1, 1953; Jinan Children's and Young People's Library was established on May 31, 1986, the two libraries are co-located, a set of leadership institutions. Jinan City Library building is divided into a new library, the old library in two parts, the old library in the jingsan road 150 (zhongshan park west adjacent), building area of 0.9 million square meters; new library is located in huaiyin district, about 2 kilometers east of the west passenger station of the provincial capital of the cultural center (lashanhe west road and xingfusi road intersection), building area of 41,000 square meters, the two museums building area of a total of 50,000 square meters, 3,000 reading seating. In the collection features focus on comprehensive, public **** and local, *** have all kinds of collection of literature 2.65 million books (pieces), including Chinese ordinary books, ancient books, newspapers and periodicals bound book, audio-visual literature collection of 1.95 million books (pieces), outsourcing electronic literature 700,000 (pieces), more than 140,000 copies of antiquities, including more than 1,000 kinds of books more than 10,000 copies of more than 1,000 kinds of good books. Jinan Municipal Library insists on opening to the outside world 365 days, open for free library card, the implementation of open-shelf lending, the establishment of 57 branch libraries and mobile stations, the creation of a "nationally advanced, first-class province" of the automobile mobile libraries, the establishment of a 24-hour self-service libraries, the annual reception of readers 900,000 people, circulation of 700,000 volumes of literature, the Web site Click 300,000 times, held public lectures, exhibitions, reading and essay reading activities for more than 100 times more than 100,000 people to participate.