Library Name: | Yanbian Library |
Location: | Yanji City, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, China |
Established: | February 1949 (the initial)[1] September 2012 (the new)[2] |
Collection Size: | 400,000 |
Director: | Jin He[3] |
Yanbian Library (ko|연변도서관) is a library located in Yanji City, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, China. With a collection of over 80 thousand books in Korean, it is the largest and the only one Korean literature collection center in China.[4]
Yanbian Library was constructed in February 1949. People's Government of Jilin Province formally named the library as "Yanbian Library" on 6 January 1955. In order to solve the problem of saturation of the building, the library was moved to the western part of Yanji City in 2012.[5]