Nanjing Library

Nanjing Library
南京图书馆
Map
Location189 Zhongshan E Rd, Xuanwu, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
TypePublic
Established1907
Branch ofJiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism
Collection
Items collected12 million (2016)
Other information
Websitewww.jslib.org.cn

Nanjing Library (simplified Chinese: 南京图书馆; traditional Chinese: 南京圖書館; pinyin: Nánjīng Túshūguǎn) is the third-largest library in China with over 10 million items. It houses important scientific, cultural and arts literature relating to Jiangsu province and other national historical records such as ancient Chinese and foreign publications. As located in the ancient capital Nanjing, the library contains 1.6 million ancient books and 100,000 volumes of books, documents and manuscripts (including Buddhist scriptures) dating from the Tang dynasty to the Ming dynasty.[1]