Shandong agricultural university library is located at the foot of Mount Tai. It has three buildings in two campuses, an area of 22,300 square meters , and 3210 reading seats . There are eight departments including the Department of Resource Construction, Bibliography Department, the Circulation Department of Daizong Campus, the Circulation Department of Panhe Campus, the Department of System Construction, the Department of Information Consulting,Teaching and Research Office of Information Retrieval & Utilization, and the Administration Office. And there is a library information research center, and an intellectual property information service center attached to the library. There are 61 employees, including 21 with senior titles and 26 with intermediate titles. There are 10 employees with doctoral degrees and 12 employees with master's degrees. The library consists of academic committee, professional committee of document resources construction, committee of automation construction and committee of reading promotion.
It has established a document resource guarantee system with the advantages and characteristics of agricultural science and life science, covering other related disciplines. It has a collection of 2953,000 volumes of paper books, 1153 kinds of current periodicals and 49 kinds of newspapers. It has 165 Chinese and foreign electronic resource libraries, including China national knowledge network, weipu, wanfang, super star, new Oriental English, Web of Science, Wiley, ScienceDirect, Proquest, Springer, Science Online, Nature, etc. It includes 1835,700 electronic books, 1506,500 electronic journals, 6039,700 academic dissertations, and 244,900 hours of audio and video. There are 5394 volumes of 311 kinds of ancient books, which can be traced back to Records of The Three Kingdoms in the Ming Dynasty.
The bibliographic data, book accompany CD and the electronic resources operate online in 7*24 hours. Library provides the book borrowing and returning, the intelligence analysis, the reference consultation, interlibrary loan (ILL) service, Check and citation, the academic retrieval, the education training, the reading promotion, the electronic reading, etc. Library has built Institutional Repository, seat reservation system, intelligent access control, broadcasting, electronic large screen, video monitoring, self-service printing and other security systems, Library is open for 98 hours every week.
Adhering to the concept of reader oriented, scholarly education and focusing on the construction goals of high-level universities and double first-class, we comprehensively serve the central work of teaching and research, talent cultivation, subject construction, cultural inheritance, and strive to build the library into a first-class information resource center, self-learning center, research and exchange center, knowledge management center, cultural inheritance center, and collaborative innovation center for similar universities in China(Including statistics from the reference rooms of each college, as of August 2022).