East Campus Library, Sun Yat-sen University（中山大學東校區圖書館）

East Campus Library, Sun Yat-sen University [File photo]

The East Campus Library of the Sun Yat-sen University was put into service in October 2004, covering an overall area of 36,000 square meters. Thanks to its outstanding design, the building won the 2006 Luban Award, a major engineering construction award in China. The building itself is equipped with the most advanced anti-theft system, self-service return machines and photocopiers. By December 2012, the collection of the university’s all four campus libraries and three sub-libraries reached over 5 million publications in total. It also has 46,000 kinds of electronic journals, 1,220,800 e-books and 300 kinds of CDs and network databases.