Hubei Provincial Library | |
Native Name: | 湖北省图书馆新馆 |
Native Name Lang: | Chinese |
Country: | China |
Established: | 1904 |
Location: | Wuhan |
Hubei Provincial Library is located at south of Sha Lake, Wuhan. It was established in 1904 as Bureau of Books (Chinese: 图书局) at Wudang Palace (Chinese: 武当宫), Wuchang, by Zhang Zhidong, the viceroy of Huguang. The New library has a construction area of about 100,000 square meters, the reading rooms can hold 6300 people at the same time. The library has a collection of more than 5,500,000 volumes as of 2017.[1]