A library is a building for a collection or books, magazines, periodicals and newspapers. The books are kept on the shelves in the stack room whereas the magazines, journals, etc. in the reading rooms. Modern libraries also have xerox rooms, and computer rooms.

圖書館是用來收藏書籍，雜志，期刊，報紙的。書是保存在書庫的貨架上的，而雜志、期刊等則是放在在閱覽室里。現代圖書館也有影印室，和計算機房的。

If you want to borrow books, you can go to the loan desk, look over the correct call numbers in the card catalog and ask the librarian to take then, out for you. Or you're allowed to enter the stack room to rind books for yourself, you can look up the bound volume or index for the articles relative to the subject, on which you are going to write thesis. If the library doesn't subscribe to the magazine which carries the article you want, you can borrow the magazine from other libraries by means of interlibrary loan service.

如果你想借書，你可以去借書處，看看的卡片目錄上正確的書號并向問圖書管理員拿給你。或者你可以進入書庫，可以看著書自己挑，你可以查找合訂本或通過索引來找有關這個主題的文章，你想要寫的論點。如果圖書館沒有訂閱你想要的雜志，你可以通過館際互借服務從其他圖書館借閱。

Don't forget to show your library card or I.D. card to the librarian before you go into the reading room, where you can read magazines or newspapers. If you find a good article and want to keep it, you can have it duplicated in the xerox room. Besides, if you want to watch films or slides, you can ask the projectionist to play the videotape for you in the audio visual room, where you can also listen to language tapes and music tapes.

在你進入可以閱讀雜志或報紙的閱覽室前，別忘了給你的圖書證或身份證圖書管理員。如果你找到一篇好文章而且想要擁有它，你可以在影印室復制。此外，如果你想看電影或幻燈片，您可以叫放映員在視聽的房間來為你播放錄像，在那里你也可以聽語言磁帶和音樂磁帶。