Shenyang Library, Municipal library in Shenhe District, Shenyang, China.

Shenyang Library is a municipal facility located in a modern building with multiple floors housing books, periodicals, and digital resources. The collection spans various subjects and offers both printed and electronic materials for different learning needs.

Founded in 1906 as the Fengtian Library on the initiative of education commissioner Zhang Heling, it was the first modern public library in northeast China and the fifth in the country. It opened to readers in October 1908, moved several times, and was renamed Shenyang Municipal Library in 1945. The current 40,000-square-metre building in Kepu Park opened on 1 June 2005.

The library holds the Ming Shilu manuscript copied by Wu Tingxie, a Qing historian and chief compiler of the Draft History of Qing, between 1910 and 1928: 42 cases, 256 volumes, donated to the Liaoning provincial library in 1929 and rediscovered in 1978. Its rare-book room keeps Ming and Qing collectanea such as the Sibu Congkan and the Gujin Tushu Jicheng.

The library stands at 205 Qingnian Street in Shenhe District, inside Kepu Park, and has occupied its 40,000-square-metre building since 1 June 2005. Since 2016 it has run fully self-service, and loans can be returned at any district or county library in Shenyang, from Heping and Dadong to Xinmin and Kangping.

The library's most prized holding is a 256-volume manuscript copy of the Ming Veritable Records, transcribed from the Qing cabinet archives by historian Wu Tingxie between 1910 and 1928 and donated to the Liaoning Provincial Library in 1929. Rediscovered in 1978, it predates the better-known Taiwan edition.