Liaoning Provincial library, formerly known as Northeast China Library, was officially established on Aug.15, 1948 in Harbin, and then moved to Shengyang in February 1949. The present name "Liaoning Provincial Library (LPL)" was adopted from 1955, which was the first large size public library ever directly established under the leadership of Chinese Communist Party.
It was opened for trial in August 2015, covering a gross floor area of 100 thousand square meters.

Liaoning Provincial library has a rich collection of classic books, ancient English books, Japanese books, Russian books, as well as a large number of northeast local literatures. The quality of its book collection ranks top among other provincial libraries in China.

Over the years, with the service concept of "innovation, sharing, openness and equality", Liaoning Provincial Library has constantly made innovation in service mode, deepened the service content, extended the scope of services and made full use of the library's facilities, documentations and technical resources to offer readers high-quality and efficient services.
It has been highly praised by the readers and the higher authorities and won the tile of "National First-class Library", "National Advanced Collective on Culture Work", "Spiritual Civilization Example Unit", "National Advanced Collective on Minorities' Ancient Book Work" and "National Helping the Disabled Advanced Collective", etc.

In recent years, LPL has given into full play its role in building the modern public cultural service system to actively promote various key projects and people-benefiting projects of cultural service, and constantly enhance the supply capacity of public culture. The protection project of classics, the promotion project of e-library, as well as the construction of public e-reading rooms have achieved remarkable results; National reading festival, cultural activities of two festivals, science week activities, library service publicity week, Children's Day activities, millions of books activity, cultural volunteer service and other public welfare cultural activities have created a strong atmosphere of reading, which has been well received by the readers. "World of sign language", "face-to-face reading", "computer class for seniors", "Utopia for children's reading", "reading·experiencing library" and other brand activities have met the cultural needs of special groups through warm and pragmatic services.

Endless reading, endless service. In the future development, LPL will further emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, forge ahead, make innovations in a pioneering spirit, to enrich the people's spiritual and cultural life, and promote the development of Liaoning public library by leaps and bounds.

辽宁省图书馆原名东北图书馆，是中国共产党领导下建立的第一所大型公共图书馆，于1948年8月15日在哈尔滨开馆，1949年2月迁至沈阳，1955年改名辽宁省图书馆，2015年新馆建设完成并试开馆，2017年4月全面开馆,新馆建筑面积10万平方米。

辽宁省图书馆现有馆藏文献650余万册（件），古籍文献61万册，善本书12万册，宋元版书100余部，还藏有丰富的东北地方文献和有关满族、清代以及伪满时期的文献资料。

多年来，省图书馆本着“创新、共享、开放、均等”的服务理念，充分利用图书馆的设施、文献、技术等资源，为读者提供优质、高效的服务：“辽图讲座”“辽图展览”“全民读书节”“双节文化活动”“图书馆服务宣传周”“流动图书馆——百万图书万里行”“影音欣赏”“全民学习中心”及“文化志愿服务”等形式各异的公益文化活动，营造了浓郁的读书氛围，得到了广大读者的好评;并打造了“手语世界”“对面朗读”“乐龄俱乐部”“童阅乌托邦”等温馨、务实的服务品牌，满足了特殊群体的文化需求。近年来，省图书馆顺应现代技术发展，逐步推出移动图书馆、微信图书馆、电子阅读器等服务内容，为读者提供数字阅读体验。

阅读无止境，服务无止境，在未来的发展中，省图书馆将不断创新服务模式、深化服务内涵、拓展服务范围，努力在保护文献典籍、传承中华文化、培养公民的文化自觉和文化自信、推动全民阅读深入开展等方面发挥重要作用。