1. Our library is open to the public for free. The readers can apply for library card by the related certificate.

2. Our library is open all year around. It is open at 9:00 am.

3. The newspaper reading room and the electronic reading room are open from Monday to Friday 9:00 am-21:00 pm, 9:00 am- 17:30 pm at the weekends and the public holiday. The children's lending and reading room is open from Monday to Friday 12:30 pm to 17:30 pm, 9:00 am to 17:30 pm at the weekends, summer and winter holiday and the public holiday. The other service windows are open from Sunday to Friday 9:00 am to 17:30 pm.

4. Please enter the library from the south gate after 17:30 pm.

5. Please keep a good manner. Be neatly dressed in the library, do not wear slippers and vest. Please keep quiet, do not sleep on the sofa. Do not take pets with you.

6. The dangerous goods are prohibited to take into the library. No smoking and any inflammable items are not allowed in the library.

7. Keep the environment clean and tidy, spitting and littering are prohibited in the library. Please bring food to the designed area on the first floor in the underground to eat.

8. Keep quiet and the mobile phones must be switched to the silent mode in the library. Do not take photographs in the reading area.

9. Please leave personal belongings in the lockers, do not bring the bags, waters and your own books in the reading room.

10. Please comply with the public rules. Queue up for applying for the library card, surfing the computer and borrowing and returning the books.

11. Take care of public property.

12. Please abide by the regulations of the library and follow the instructions given by the library staff.

13. Visitors in group should make a visit appointment with curator’s office in advance.

14. Nanjing library consulting service hotline is 025-84356000