Xinhua All Media+Let Reading Reach a Wider Crowd —— Create more places to enhance the observation of urban public reading space
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 22nd Title: Let reading reach a wider audience — — Observation on Creating and Improving Urban Public Reading Space in Many Places
Xinhua news agency reporter
On the occasion of the 28th World Reading Day, various activities are carried out all over the country to encourage citizens to actively participate in reading for all. In the first-line interview, the reporter found that in the face of the diverse needs of the people, many places have built "small and beautiful" and multi-style new public cultural facilities according to local conditions, promoted the construction of public reading spaces such as urban study rooms and community libraries, and continuously improved the level of public cultural services.
Build a convenient service network, and the "cultural life circle of the people in a quarter of an hour" is becoming more and more perfect.
In Keyuan Experimental School in Tangkeng Community, Biling Street, Pingshan District, Shenzhen, a building with a white outer wall is particularly eye-catching. This is the Tangkeng Community Branch of Pingshan District Library, and it is also the largest community library in Shenzhen at present. Since its opening recently, it has attracted nearby residents to punch in.
"Our family likes reading. The newly opened community library is near our home, and it takes ten minutes to walk. It will be more convenient to study in the future." Shenzhen citizen Ms. Xie said.
The picture shows the reading area of Pingshan District Library in Shenzhen. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yin Peng photo
Through the construction of urban study and grass-roots public cultural center covering the whole region, Pingshan District of Shenzhen City has opened the library to the "doorstep" of the masses.
Lu Qimei, executive deputy director of Shenzhen Pingshan District Library, said: "We have built and improved reading facilities with campuses, enterprises and parks, and built a compact vertical public main library, an integrated city study with libraries and shops, and jointly built and shared library-school cooperation ‘ Trinity ’ The construction model realizes the global connection of reading resources, the global collaboration of service promotion and the overall improvement of reading quality. "
At present, the construction of the main and branch libraries in Pingshan District has achieved 100% vertical integrated management, and the street libraries have 100% coverage.
The reporter learned in the interview that many places have built convenient service networks and constantly improved the "cultural life circle of the people in a quarter of an hour".
Some urban areas in Shenzhen rely on the system of main and branch libraries to promote the co-construction and sharing of public libraries and primary and secondary schools; Some places in Zhejiang take the construction of neighborhood libraries as an opportunity to activate the microcirculation of public reading services in combination with regional cultural characteristics; Beijing has built many new public cultural facilities &hellip by transforming old factories, using vacated spaces, transportation hubs, commercial buildings, parks and green spaces, etc. …
Li Chang, a researcher at the Tsinghua University Institute of Cultural and Creative Development, said that vigorously promoting the construction of various public reading spaces in cities, districts and townships will help to form a strong atmosphere in which the whole people love reading, read well and be good at reading, better meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the masses and promote the high-quality development of public cultural services.
Create a characteristic reading space, and public cultural services will be richer and more diverse.
In Grain Rain season, Qinghe Park in Yueqing City, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province is full of vegetation and vitality. Located on an island in the middle of the park, Qinghe Bookstore has become a new landmark of local cultural activities and a popular punching place for citizens.
The picture shows Yueqing citizens attending a new book sharing meeting in Qinghe Bookstore. (photo by Xu Weimin)
Ms. Zhu, who lives nearby, takes her children and enjoys reading time in the reading room filled with coffee aroma. "The study environment in the park is so beautiful that such a public reading space is very popular." Ms. Zhu lamented.
Qinghe Bookstore takes the park landscape axis as the center in the spatial layout, fully excavates the characteristics of the building itself, and creates a wonderful place for viewing mountains, water and reading at the same time.
In the West Second Ring Road of Beijing, the encyclopedia study room is a "paradise" for many readers to feel the scholarly lifestyle. Walking into the study, there are gray tiles and white walls, slate running water, and thread-bound books … … A thick, quaint atmosphere came to my face.
Wei Kongyuan, the manager of the encyclopedia study room, is sorting out books. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shujun photo
Readers are reading books in the encyclopedia study room. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shujun photo
"This quiet reading space is very distinctive. I often bring my children to participate in cultural activities." Mr. Fu, who works near the study, said that the 6-year-old daughter first came into contact with rice paper and guqin here. "Touch is very important, let children touch seal cutting, printmaking, calligraphy, etc. personally, cultivate hobbies and feel the charm of traditional culture."
Lin Huiqing, director of Yueqing Library, said: "These public libraries in Yueqing pay more attention to people’s needs, and integrate fashion, openness, ecological environment and resources. They are new public cultural spaces integrating reading leisure, family parenting, digital future and light food service."
Wei Kongyuan, the manager of the encyclopedia study room, said that in addition to providing free reading services, the study room also makes full use of cultural space to carry out a variety of cultural activities, from lecture activities to online live broadcast, from offline reading to digital reading, from forums to exhibitions, through various forms to popularize ancient books culture, so that the characters in ancient books can "live" in the hands and hearts of modern people.
Fan Bainai, vice president of the Institute of Public Policy of Zhejiang University, said that the diversified urban public reading space is playing an increasingly important role in building public cultural spaces such as urban study rooms according to local conditions and providing effective cultural supply for the masses.
Innovating service and management methods to make reading reach a wider audience.
"How much space is not enough. The Nanshan District Library has more than 1 million books, and the district-level library will develop into a transfer station for books. " Yang Rong, director of the Nanshan District Library in Shenzhen, said.
In the interview, the reporter found that some city study rooms and community libraries have taken relevant measures to serve a wider audience in view of the problems of insufficient venue space and low utilization rate of books in their collections.
The Nanshan District Library in Shenzhen provides readers with more convenient and accurate literature services by means of "dynamic collection": timely removing books with low utilization rate, supplementing copies and types of documents with high demand, so that the books on the shelf can meet the needs of readers to the greatest extent; Make full use of intelligent bookshelves and indoor positioning navigation systems to provide readers with accurate search and positioning of books, space and other resources; Use the service of "online lending+book delivery to home" to provide readers with greater service guarantee.
The picture shows the corner of Nanshan study room in Shenzhen. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yin Peng photo
The use of information technologies such as big data and cloud computing has also inserted wings for public cultural services in various places. Beijing enhances the convenience of public cultural services by strengthening the construction of smart libraries and digital cultural centers, and launching digital reading and online cultural activities. Shenzhen has launched the contactless service of pre-lending smart stacks, audio reading promotion activities, and online travel reading featuring the integration of literature and travel; In some places in Zhejiang, by promoting the application of "national reading online" and creating an integrated platform of "one-click lending", digitalization is used to lead national reading … …
"Reading can improve the quality of citizens and cities, and it is an important starting point for building a learning and innovative city." Li Chang, a researcher at the Tsinghua University Institute of Cultural and Creative Development, said that we should give full play to the role of science and technology, innovate the service and management methods of public reading space, use the mobile Internet, break the boundaries between time and space, and attract more people to participate in national reading. (Reporter Yin Peng, Lu Chang, Yang Shujun, Wei Yijun)