SMU Library

Overview

Shanghai Maritime University (SMU) Library was originated at the Shipping major's library room of the Shanghai Industrial College of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs in 1909, which was found by Tang Wenzhi in the Qing Dynasty. After several changes, the flourishing age is coming. In 2007, SMU library removed to Shanghai Lingang New City.

Up to the end of 2022, the Library holds under its roof a collection of more than 1.41 million books, 285 kinds of domestic and foreign newspapers and periodicals, 20 Reading rooms and 3,000 Reading Seats. Also to the satisfaction of readers is the massive acquisition of digital resources from the library and abroad, amounting to 230 retrieve computers, 47 digital resource platforms, 2 particular self-built databases.

Furthermore, the Library currently also hosts the following organizations: SMU library establishes Shanghai international Maritime information center (SIMIC), Sci-tech novelty retrieval workstation of the China Education Ministry (G12), Intellectual Property Information Service Center of Shanghai Maritime University, World Intellectual Property Organization Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC), and becomes the virtual reference service member library of CALIS and the member library of CASHL.

Services

With the new library building and the network technology made possible by modern technology, the reading environment has been further improved. More space has proved fruitful in the number of collected literature, in the largeness of the open areas, and in reading seats, etc. SMU library also provides circulation, book spaces, digital library portal, resource retrieval, information service and research reference, interlibrary loan and document delivery, user training, academic books on reserve, and multimedia services, etc.