Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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The library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), also named as the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC), is the public library service system of CAS as well as the National Library of Sciences in Chinese National Science and Technology Libraries (NSTL) system. Under a Board Trustees appointed by CAS, The library consists of a Main Library (based in Beijing) and two branch libraries, respectively Chengdu Branch Library and Wuhan Branch Library. The library also co-operates, together with selected CAS research institutes, a number of special branch libraries. The library functions as the key library nationally for collecting information resources and providing information services in natural sciences, inter-disciplinary fields, and high tech fields, for the researchers and students of CAS and for the researchers around the country. It also conducts services such as information analysis, digital library system development, scientific publication (with its 17 journals), and promotion of sciences.The library is actively participating and leading national efforts to build a powerful National Scientific Information Infrastructure, and collaborates with major domestic and foreign libraries for resources sharing and research collaboration. It is credited to grant doctor and master degrees in library science and information science, with a yearly enrollment more than 50 students. The library also hosts senior visiting scholars and organizes vocational training and continuing education programs.The library, aiming at developing a world first-class information service ability and leadership in library development in the country, strives to strengthen its resources, improve its systems, and innovate its services, to best suit its users and its scientific research communities.
