About Speical Collections

BIT Special Collections

The existing books and periodicals of the year 1960 are arranged and classified specifically. ( Judging from the collection stamp, there are collection resources from Yan'an Natural Academy, College of Engineering, North China University, .Chinois-Franco University, Beijing Engineering Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology and many other resources in different periods. College of Engineering, North China University changed its name to Beijing Engineering Institute in 1952, after that, the number of collections increased gradually. The selection of resources of Beijing Institute of Technology in the first decade is a continuation of special collection in 1950,so that each period has representative works.) Resources are collected to be systematic and representative according to different subjects, such as Xu Teli library, Chinois-Franco University Library and so on. The resources are distributed in Zhongguancun Campus and Liangxiang Campus to meet different needs. The number of special collections of Beijing Institute of Technology is controlled around 40000 for the time being.

(1) Resources on Xu Teli 

The responsibility of Xu Teli Library is to provide and establish research space for Xu Teli's historical materials and culture, to purchase and collect documents about Xu Teli, to construct Xu Teli historical data collection library, to carry out special projects about Xu Teli's researches on educational thoughts and to carry out resource introduction activities and culture exhibitions with related themes regularly.

(2) Chinois-Franco University 

Chinois-Franco University Library brings together the literatures and historical researches of Chinois-Franco University, forming the literature resource center and research center for Chinois-Franco University.

(3) Basic Collections

Zhongguancun Campus has a collection of books and periodicals with special collection stamp during its special historical period. And Liangxiang special collection room has possessed both Chinese and foreign Language resources of books and periodicals.

(4) BIT Faculty and Students’Works

The information about academicians and senior teachers is collected and reorganized under the principles of the collection of the Senior Scientists growth data collection base to form the library of academicians and senior teachers of Beijing Institute of Technology.

The Science and Engineering collections assembles the relevant works of both teachers and students of Beijing Institute of Technology. The storage space of special literature collection base of Beijing Institute of Technology in Zhongguancun Campus is enlarged for the purpose of collecting the historical resources of Beijing Institute of Technology and their the character database of senior professors who constructed the school. What's more, it organizes and excavates the relevant data, and finally forms the corresponding celebrity database of Beijing Institute of Technology.      

(5) The Project for Collecting Historic Data of Elderly Scientists' Academic Life Base

On July 2, 2010, China Association for Science and Technology and Beijing Institute of Technology came to a formal signed cooperative agreement to jointly build  "The Project for Collecting Historic Data of Elderly Scientists' Academic Life Base". In order to fully demonstrate the achievements of the elderly scientists' academic life and play the academic value, historical value and social value of the collected data, it takes the responsibility of preserving and managing the elderly scientists' academic growth materials, displaying and disseminating the academic ideas and essences of the elderly scientists and providing access to information and services. It has become an important place for the majority of science and technology workers, historians and archivists to acquire and use research materials.

(6) Literature Collection of China Association for Science and Technology

In 2002, the special collection from China Association for Science and Technology was established jointly by Beijing Institute of Technology Library, Academic Department and Service Center of China Association for Science and Technology in accordance with the requirements of the Notice Regarding the Establishment of Mechanism of Literature Collection and Communicationfrom China Association forScience and Technology (Association for Science and Technology [2002] 066). Throughout many years of efforts, the center had gradually developed into an integration of literature collection, academic exchange, information services and intelligence research.