Table 1 Overview of the establishment of libraries by universities in some provinces and cities in 1918.
From: Chinese universities’ social education: a historical perspective (1912–1945)
Province | Library name | Book lending request | Book Catalogues | Library fees and coupons | Annual funding |
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Beijing | Higher Normal School Library | No books will be loaned out except for reference by faculty research departments and for student use as designated by the Director of Academic Affairs | A catalogue letter, modelled on the Imperial Library in Tokyo, Japan, in which the book plates are prepared in accordance with the De Witt’s ten-point classification and stored for easy reference | One coin for reading magazines and newspapers, two coupons for ordinary books, half for students, five coupons for the Four Books, ten coupons for the Good Book, and one coupon for the Premium Book. Free coupons | 15,000 |
Tientsin | National Peiyang University Library | Teachers and students | As catalogued in the US National Library | Free | 1800 |
Shandong | Cheeloo University Library | No loan of dictionaries | Chinese Books by Confucian classics, history, philosophy and literature; Western language by decimal classification | Free | Uncertain |
Jiangsu | Higher Normal School Library | No loan of Reference books | Decimal classification | Free | Uncertain |
Jiangsu | St.John’s University Library | All | Decimal classification | Free | Uncertain |
Jiangsu | Nantong School Library | Lendable with permission of officer | Confucian classics, history, philosophy and literature, Book Series | Two copper dollars per volume | 2000 |
Jiangsu | Nanking University Library | No more than 3 books at a time | Western language by decimal classification; Chinese by Si ku quan shu | Free | Uncertain |
Hubei | Boone University Library | All | Decimal classification | Free | 3500 |
Hubei | Wuchang Higher Normal School Library | Staff only | Chinese by Si ku quan shu | Free | Uncertain |
Jiangxi | William Nast College Library | All | Subject Classification | Free | 360 |
Hunan | College of Yale-in-China Library | All | Decimal classification | Free | 158 |
Guangdong | Lingnan School Library | All | Uncertain | Free | 500 Hong Kong Dollars |