Located on the city's central axis and in the Shenzhen North Railway Station central business district, Shenzhen Library's north division stands across the Shenzhen Art Museum (new venue). 

The library, with a total construction area of 72,000 square meters, is designed as a comprehensive and smart public library that can also function as the city's literature archive, as well as the document collection and editing center, network data center, and the literature dispatching center of Shenzhen as a "City of Libraries."

The new library, with tech features in almost all its dimensions, can complement the functions of the main Shenzhen Library site in Futian District. It provides a total of 2,500 reading seats and houses an extensive collection of 8 million books.

In addition to six floors above ground, the library also features a three-floor-deep underground storage area with an automatic and intelligent book sorting system. The underground section, 21.55 meters deep and covering an area of 2,862 square meters, is roughly the size of seven basketball courts. It is the largest and first ultra-deep three-dimensional library in China. 

Through the automatic sorting and positioning system, readers can complete rapid borrowing in as short as 8 minutes. Once a reader submits a book request, the books will be retrieved by an automated carriage, which can travel from the underground floors to the top floors for readers to immediately pickup.

Both the library and the new art museum are designed by German studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten. 

Aiming to integrate literature collection, reading space, social education, idea exchange, cultural inheritance, and creative activities under one roof, the library boasts various themed reading areas, exhibition halls, lecture halls, and functional areas. 

Reservations are needed for admission and the library is open to a total of 8,000 readers per day, including 2,000 for the children's area daily. Readers who plan to drive there can submit their parking reservations one day in advance via the Shenzhen Library WeChat public account.

Add: 30 Tenglong Road, Longhua District (龍華區騰龍路30號深圳圖書館北館)

Metro: Lines 4 or 6, Hongshan Station (紅山站), Exit A1

Opening hours: 7:00-23:00 (Monday to Sunday) for the first floor reading hall; 9:00-17:00 (Tuesday to Sunday; no admission from 16:30) for other public service areas, closed on Mondays

Tel: 8284-1011

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