图书馆简介

　　栖心图书馆位于著名的近代临济宗中兴祖庭、观音道场、全国重点寺院——七塔禅寺内，是浙东地方文献收藏中心、浙东佛教文献收藏中心，也是宁波地区佛教文献最为丰富的图书馆。馆舍为2016 年竣工的寺院西侧扩建工程的主体部分，仿传统四合院式，既古朴典雅，又富有现代气息。馆舍地面两层分别为读者服务与阅览区及图书储藏分区等，地下负一层为重要历史文献书库。 

　　栖心图书馆于2017 年4 月23 日“世界读书日”正式对外开放，面向读者提供服务。图书馆现馆藏纸质图书8万余册，包括历史、哲学、宗教、文学、艺术、政治、军事、经济、医学、伦理、社会，以及包括地方佛教文献在内的地方文献等类别，计划2025 年前突破 15 万册。 

　　栖心图书馆以“阅读经典，传承文明，开拓视野，启迪智慧”为宗旨，坚持“以科学服务为主导，以学术研究为基础，推动人文社会科学包括佛教哲学发展”为理念。栖心图书馆在不断丰富纸质图书收藏的同时，还积极加快电子图书信息中心建设。除国家法定假日外，图书馆每周一下午至周日向读者开放，共计63小时。栖心图书馆将以丰富的资源、卓越的品质和优良的服务为宁波政府重塑“东方大儒”和“东南佛国”做出自己应有的贡献。

QiXin (means take a break for your heart) Library is located beside Seven Pagoda Temple, which is famous as LinJi school ancestral chamber, GuanYin temple, as well as one of the top national temples in China. QiXin Library is the biggest local literature and buddhist literature collecting center in Ningbo. The main part of the library is located on the west side of the temple and was completed in 2016. Through transformation of the traditional quadrangle courtyard, QiXin Library is plain, elegant and full of modern flavor. The ground floor and the first floor are respectively for the reader service, reading area and book storage partition, important historical documents are placed in the underground 1st floor.

QiXin Library was opened on “The World Book Day” which is on 23rd April 2017, and provide book service for readers. There are 40,000 of printed books in the library, including history, philosophy, religions, literature, art, medicine, ethics, politics, military, economics, society and local buddhist literature. Before 2025, the collections in the library will be developed to 150,000 copies.

QiXin Library aims at read the classics, inherit the civilization, broaden the horizon, and enlighten the wisdom. Meanwhile, it insists on scientific service, academic research, in order to promote humanities and social sciences, Buddhism philosophy included. QiXin Library not only enlarges its collection, also actively develops the construction of E-book information center. Except officialholidays, QiXin Library opens from Monday afternoon to Sunday, 63 hours in all a week.