What Does a Document Librarian Do?

Saren Gaowa, female, Mongolian, deputy research librarian of the National Library, deputy curator of the National Library Ancient Books Museum (National Library Fangzhi Museum). ^[1] Since 2010, he has been the Deputy Director of the Library of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and concurrently the head of the Dunhuang Literature Group of the National Library of Ancient Books.

Sarengaova

(National Librarian)

Since entering the museum, he has participated in more than ten important exhibitions including "Mysterious Kingdom of Xixia", "Suites in China", "Watching the Civilization", "The Relics of the Western Regions-Xinjiang Historical Documents Exhibition", and the Exhibition of National Precious Ancient Books List in the past years. , Writing manuscripts, setting up exhibitions, explaining on duty, etc. Outstanding performance in the "Watch of Civilization" exhibition, won the Library Honor Award.

Monograph "Mongolian Exegesis Study" (200,000 words, National Publishing House, 2005.) won the library's 2005 outstanding work award. He is currently chairing the National Library's key scientific research project, "National Library Western Region Literature Arrangement and Research", which will be concluded by the end of the year. In order to improve the knowledge structure and solve the language barriers of the national literature cataloging of the National Library, in his spare time, he participated in reading clubs run by the Institute of Ethnic Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and successively studied Tibetan, Turkic, Uighur, Chaga, and Sute. The Manchu class of the National School of Renmin University has laid a solid foundation for the collation, cataloging and research of relevant documents of the National Library.

Since July 2010, the Ministry of Culture has selected the sixth batch of cadres to assist Tibet, and went to the Tibet Autonomous Region Library to carry out three-year assistance to Tibet.

In accordance with the division of labor of the library's leadership team, actively assist the librarian in various tasks. In this year and a half of Tibetan work, he has made outstanding contributions to the adjustment of the Tibet Autonomous Region's library's business structure, the standardization of work links, the promotion of ancient book collation and publication, and the strengthening of the protection of ancient books in the Tibet Autonomous Region. .

Saren Gaowa (right) at the 2012 Chinese Library Annual Conference ^[2]

At the China Library Annual Conference in Dongguan in November 2012, Saren Gaowa was named "Chinese Library Model."

The award speech was as follows: "In the National Library, there is a figure who works day and night on the front line of ancient book research. She is diligent in studying, studying hard, and mastering Mongolian, Tibetan, Manchu and Turkic languages through self-study. , Uighur, Chaga Tai, Su Te, and other minority languages, silently made her own contribution to the research and protection of ancient books, especially Dunhuang documents. To this end, she has never enjoyed family leave and annual leave, She devoted all her energy unselfishly to the protection and inheritance of ancient books in China. She volunteered to go to Tibet and work in a library in the Tibet Autonomous Region to overcome the incompatibility with the plateau environment, work hard, standardize the system, count the ancient books, and improve the environment. Organize the catalogue ... all of this is just a heartfelt and awe-inspiring heart. She is the current expert of the Dunhuang Document Group of the National Library of Ancient Books, studying and dedicating Saren Gaowa. "