Library overview

Xidian University Library consists of Yifu Library of the North Campus and the South Campus Library. The total area of the library is 52,200 square meters and there are more than 5,600 seats for readers. By the end of 2022, the library's collection of literature was about 5.40 million volumes, among which there are 3.24 million volumes hard copy documents. The Electronic documents is amounted to 17.3 million volumes. There are 125 kinds of digital resources platforms in Chinese and Foreign Languages, and 202 databases, covering all disciplines or majors in our university.

Xi'an University Library serves 22,000 undergraduate students, 16,000 postgraduate students, and 6,000 faculty members (including retirement). The two campuses implement the transfer and remittance of books on demand. In 2022, the library received about 1.9 million readers and more than 166,000 books were borrowed by readers.

Since 2002, the Library has used the US INNOPAC/New Century Library Automation Integrated Management System to realize the automated management of comprehensive business operations such as interviews, cataloging, journals, circulation and OPAC public search. Since November 2014, the library has switched to the foreign system with the largest number of domestic users --- Aleph500.

Xidian University Library is starting a new journey of the 14th Five-Year Plan, aiming at supporting the “three first-class" construction of the university and building a smart library. The new motto of the Library is "to lead the innovation, to prioritize the quality, to support with literature and to cultivate talents with service and culture”. We would like to build the library into a high-quality academic service organization supporting the talents cultivation and scientific research, aiming to take lead in the new information technology application and innovative services in China, and striving to build the library into a "hall of knowledge dissemination", a "hall of learning and communication" and a "hall of cultural inheritance".

Yifu Library Introduction

Yifu Library started to run in November 2001. The main building (Building A) is 11 stories high, the South Podium Building (Building B) is 4 stories and the West Podium Building (Building C) is 3 stories. The total construction area is 19,200 square meters. It was named "Yifu Library" because of the partial funding of Sir. Run Run Shaw.

Yifu Library adopts an open shelf system, integrates circulation and reading and works in a separate borrowing and unified returning management model. The opening hours per week mounts up to 101.5 hours. The returning office, the general consultation office and OPAC public search terminals are on the second floor of the South Podium. The Reading Room and Circulation Stack provide readers with book-borrowing service. The Current Periodicals and Newspaper Reading Rooms are for readers to inquire the newspapers and periodicals in the past two years.

Information Consultation Department on the fifth floor of Building A provides services for readers to search novelty in scientific and technological research, check the indexing and deliver the literature. This department also offers training courses for readers to learn about information retrieval, resources and literature utilization.

With modern equipment and technology as well as rich collection resources, Yifu Library provides high-quality service for faculty and students of the university.

South Campus Library Introduction

The South Campus Library laid the foundation on July 1, 2005, and was capped on August 25, 2006. It was basically completed in September 2008. On August 22, 2009, the trial operation was opened, mainly serving more than 20,000 undergraduate students and 1000 postgraduate students on the south campus.

The South Campus Library has a building area of 40,000 square meters, with four floors on the ground and a basement.

The South Campus Library implements an integrated management model of circulation and reading, opens in all areas and runs unified borrowing and returning system. The opening hours per week mounts up to 97 hours.

The South Campus Library also has first class self-service facilities and an elegant reading environment.

The South Campus Library currently has 12 Book Stacks, 1 Newspapert Reading Room, 1 E-reading Room, 3 Self-study Rooms, 2 Reading Rooms by Appointment, 1 Training Rooms, 2 Shared Study-spaces, 9 Seminar Rooms, 1 Academic Lecture Hall, 1 Second-tier Stack, 1 Compact Stack and several Leisure Areas. There are more than 4,500 seats for readers.

The South Campus Library provides high-quality services for faculty and students of the university with open and diversified learning space, one-stop service center and abundant collection resources.

Some commonly used online resources are listed below:

① IEEE Xplore Digital Library：https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp

② Social Sciences Citation Index （SSCI）：http://webofscience.com/

③ ScienceDirect eBooks：http://www.sciencedirect.com

④ Web of science（Medline）：http://webofscience.com/

⑤ Springer Link：https://link.springer.com/