About the SCAU Library
With its origin parts of the Sun Yat-sen University, the Lingnan University Agricultural College and the Guangxi University Agricultural College built in 1953, the South China Agricultural University (SCAU) library is one of the most special university libraries in Guang Dong province today.
The library owns 106 librarians and staff covering forestry, veterinary medicine et. more than 10 subjects on agricultural and social science. With a total area of 36,000 m2,13 reading rooms and more than 2,700 reading seats are available in main building with influence. We provide a full range of network services and complete hardware and software facilities to support the University business, its staff and students.
Until the end of 2019, the library collections consist of over 2,667,400 books, 6,561,300 volumes of electronic resources with total 9,228,700 collections. Literature information resources have covered all disciplines of SCAU. The library document resources have formed a document security system with multi-disciplinary and multi-carrier, featuring agricultural science and life science literature as its characteristics and advantages. The resources are smoothly available for its staff and students.
Following mission of having readers’ best interests at heart while providing top quality services, SCUA library pursues constantly services. The library is open for seven days (105 hours) a week, and the electronic resources are open 24 hours a day. Through full functionality in library holding, borrowing and returning books, information retrieval, document delivery and intellectual property information services are expended. Today, a new chapter in the Library's reader service has been opened. With modern technology, SCAU library has improved further high quality services. (May 2020)