The current library building was constructed in 1986, with an area ranking at the bottom among those in Taizhou, making it unable to meet the daily needs.
In the spring of the 16th year of the Republic of China (1927), Wang Shijiao of Shuikongtou Village in Xianju Chengguan donated 50 yuan and assisted with 1 mu of farmland to establish a reading room.
In September of the same year, the remaining books and equipment were stored in the Confucian Temple, and the construction of a new library began.
In August of the following year, the Xianju County People's Cultural Palace was established, with a library room collecting books.
Within a year after July 1968, the county cultural palace did not have a formal leadership structure and was controlled by mass organizations.
In 1972, the library room reopened, but was limited to reading Mao Zedong's quotations, works of Marx and Lenin, and revolutionary opera scripts.
In the same year, the central government issued relevant documents, and the Xianju County Cultural Palace resumed the directorship system.
In April 1979, Wang Miyu was appointed as the first director; in May, it became an independent entity under the Xianju County Bureau of Culture and Education.
[5] In 2018, with a total score of 988.5 points and ranking second in Taizhou,[6] it was promoted to a national first-grade library assessed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
In August 1951, the library room moved back to the Confucian Temple, with an additional south-facing bungalow of nearly 40 square meters.
In June 1963, it moved to five bungalows on Xueqian Street, covering 75 square meters, offering lending and newspaper reading services to the public, and adding a "Youth Home" (which relocated to Chengguan Town -now in the area of Taiping Street- in 1965 and became the town cultural station).
In 1964, some books were moved to the vicinity of the Xiaocai Market, renting two rooms totaling 40 square meters in a civilian house.
After the reopening of the library room in 1972, it moved back to the west wing of the county cultural palace, and ancient books were also moved to the county cultural palace in July and August, stored in the east wing.
From summer 1975 to October 1976, the juvenile reading room opened at the entrance of Jiufang Lane, opposite a rented civilian house.
From 1974 to 1975, a total of 70,000 yuan was allocated by the provincial and county governments of Zhejiang and Xianju to begin construction of the cultural palace building, which was completed in August 1976.
After the formal establishment of the Xianju County Library in August 1978, the building remained at the original location for eight years.
After the completion of the new building, the nine staff members worked overtime to move and decorate, saving the state more than 3,000 yuan in expenses.
[9] After the completion of the project, Xianju County Library will be able to store at least one million books, effectively alleviating the current shortage of seats and bookshelves.
[19] Academies undertake the task of "inheriting and promoting local excellent culture" and have been recommended by the Xianju County Government as an important work.
Readers can search for resources in the electronic reading room on the first floor of the library,[14] with only an internet fee of 1 yuan per hour charged.
[27] Xianju County Library has also held activities such as "Celebrating the New Year with Literary Joy",[28] "Exhibition of the Public Library Law",[29] and a Spring Equinox Poetry Meeting,[30] as well as lantern riddle guessing activities on Lantern Festival both online and offline via WeChat public accounts.