Nanjing Library

Nanjing Library 南京图书馆
Location	189 Zhongshan E Rd, Xuanwu, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Type	Public
Established	1907
Branch of	Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism
Collection
Items collected	12 million (2016)
Other information
Website	www.jslib.org.cn

Nanjing Library (simplified Chinese: 南京图书馆; traditional Chinese: 南京圖書館; pinyin: Nánjīng Túshūguǎn) is the third-largest library in China with over 10 million items. It houses important scientific, cultural and arts literature relating to Jiangsu province and other national historical records such as ancient Chinese and foreign publications. As located in the ancient capital Nanjing, the library contains 1.6 million ancient books and 100,000 volumes of books, documents and manuscripts (including Buddhist scriptures) dating from the Tang dynasty to the Ming dynasty.^[1]