Library鈥檚 online boost for local research
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JIADING Library is planning to digitize 100,000 pages of local documents and put them online for readers.
Such documents are consulted a few hundred times each year, with most requests coming from researchers writing books, making TV documentaries, or compiling family trees.
Zhang Lichun is a frequent visitor of local document reading room. Zhang, who is in his late 70s, spends two to three days every week in the reading room as he’s busy writing a book about the history of the district in the 1940s.
“Jiading Library has a rich collection of local documents on history, which provided a lot of support for me,” he said.
Jiading Library began collecting local documents in 1989 and has also written to citizens of note who were born in Jiading but now live in other parts of China.
So far the library has collected almost 9,000 kinds of local documents, including books, pictures, recordings, articles and letters.
The library is now open seven days a week and you don’t have to be a member to check out the documents.
Shen Xinyuan, from Beijing, visited the library last month, looking for information about Shen Yufu, a relative who lived in Jiading in the early 1900s.
“Library staff not only helped me find related documents, they even contacted another branch of Shen’s family for me,” Shen said.
To avoid damage or loss, the documents can’t be taken out of the library but putting them online from next year means that anyone can have access without even leaving home.
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