The Friendship Library is located in the Foreign Publication Reading Area (4th Floor) of Shanghai Library and holds publications donated by nine overseas individuals and institutions, and ten foreign consulates in Shanghai. There are about 20,000 open-shelf books in many languages, including Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Russian, Thai, Swedish and Romanian.

The donated books are mainly in the fields of philosophy, politics, education, literature, art, history and other social sciences.

There are also a number of multimedia materials in the Friendship Library, which is equipped with facilities for using these materials, and computers to search CD-ROM databases and access the Internet. The library also lends its German books and audiovisual materials to readers. (See “Goethe Institute Center--The German Materials Section”.)

This section is also the location of The United Nations Repository Library.

Opening time: 9:00~17:00, Monday to Sunday.

Donors List:

1. Consulates in Shanghai: Australia, Thailand, Finland, Mexico (with Mexican Cultural & Art Council), Romania, Iran, Turkey, Israel, Belgium and the Netherlands;

2. Overseas individuals and institutions: Nagasaki Prefecture Shanghai Representative Office; Chairman of the Russian Federation Conference Mr. Sergei Mironov; San Francisco Public Library of U.S.A; Prof. Matsuo Shoichi of Japan University of Political Science and Law; National Assembly Library of Korea; Lund University, Goteborg University and Stockholm University; Goethe Institute Center; Singapore National Library Board; Biblioteca Alexandrina of Egypt.