The Life Theme Branch of Hangzhou Library, situated on Huansha Road in Hangzhou City, spans approximately 5228 square meters and is structured across four distinct floors. Here is an overview of each floor’s offerings:
– **First Floor**: This is dedicated to the lending area for social sciences and examination themes.
– **Second Floor**: This floor houses the lending area for newspapers, periodicals, and audio-visual discs.
– **Third Floor**: The lending area here focuses on leisure life themes and natural sciences. Additionally, the attached third floor serves as the children’s lending area.
– **Fourth Floor**: This floor is reserved for the lending area covering education, literature, history, and art.
The library’s collection predominantly consists of paper-based literature, boasting around 450,000 volumes of various literature resources. It also offers a wide range of periodicals, with over 100 kinds of newspapers, more than 800 kinds for reading, and over 300 kinds available for lending. Multi-media CDs and audio-visual materials on life knowledge are also part of the collection.
In terms of operating hours, the library is open from Tuesday to Sunday throughout the year from 09:00 to 21:00, and remains closed all day on Mondays. For the second to fourth floors, the opening hours are from 9:00 to 17:30. Please note that the specific business status may vary depending on the day’s operational circumstances.
