Modern Express News (Reporter Liu Jingyan/Wen Niu Huaxin/Photo) Spring Festival + Winter Vacation, where do children go? On January 20th, the children's library in Yuhuatai District, Nanjing, was warm and melting, where children read and learned to cut paper. The Modern Express reporter learned that at present, Nanjing has built and opened 102 such children's libraries (reading spaces).
△ Yuhua Street Children's Library
200 square meters of books collection of 4,000 volumes, support cardless borrowing, through the loan and return
Colorful new bookshelves, decorative exhibition boards with aerospace science themes, theme wall paintings with landmark elements such as Communist Youth League Road, Yuhuatai, and Red Scarf Square... Yuhua Street Children's Library is located on the 6th floor of the neighborhood club, No. 27 Communist Youth League Road, with an indoor area of about 200 square meters and a collection of 4,000 books, which was officially opened on June 1, 2021.
"Although the area of 200 square meters is not large, it is small and exquisite, which is the characteristic of the Yuhua Street Children's Library. The museum displays many children's elements, creates bookshelves suitable for all ages and heights, facilitates everyone's access to books, and adds cartoon-style intelligent children's borrowing machines and intelligent anti-theft systems. Xu Jiajia, a member of the Yuhua Street Publicity Committee, introduced that the street linkage Yuhuatai District Library Lending System can borrow without a card, and you can borrow books by simply applying for a certificate through mobile phone WeChat.
The bibliography of the Yuhua Street Children's Library comes from the professional recommendation of the school teachers, and has now officially connected to the Yuhuatai District Library Book Lending System, which can be borrowed and returned with the District Library, and the Yuhua Street Children's Library has also become the circulation point of Jinling Library.
102 children's libraries, each equipped with no less than 500 books
In the process of collecting practical projects for people's livelihood in 2021, the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism listened to the voices of the public and the suggestions of the deputies of the National People's Congress, and decided to build 100 children's libraries (reading spaces) throughout the city.
How to build? Fang Zhangwu, deputy director of the Public Service Department of the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, introduced that the children's library coordinated the use of the original 24-hour self-service library, the town street comprehensive cultural station or the village (community) service center library, the new reading space and other existing positions to carry out child-friendly transformation and increase the allocation of children's books.
At present, the 102 children's libraries (reading spaces) included in the construction plan have all been completed and opened, with a total operating area of about 9,000 square meters, a total collection of children's books reaching 370,000 volumes, and each children's library is equipped with no less than 500 children's books. Relying on the massive digital resources of the Nanjing Shared Library, the library has selected some content suitable for children of all ages and parent-child interaction.
In terms of open use, each children's library is open at the wrong time and at different peaks according to the characteristics of children's life and learning, with a service time of not less than 30 hours per week on weekdays, 8 hours of openness on weekends and statutory holidays, and no less than 50 hours of service hours per week during winter and summer vacations, and will also carry out activities regularly.
△ Library Spring Festival Event
In terms of service guarantee, each children's library is equipped with at least 1 full-time and part-time management personnel, responsible for the daily open management and activity organization of the children's library, and introduces a volunteer mechanism. According to the standard of 20,000 yuan per household, the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism will subsidize the construction units, and will also invest special funds to support the continuous operation of the children's library that has been built.
You can meet it around the corner, and you will continue to promote free opening and updating
The Modern Express reporter learned that 102 children's libraries cover almost all streets in various districts of Nanjing. Maybe it's right on your doorstep, and you'll meet it around the corner.
For example, the Daxin Community Comprehensive Cultural Service Center (Love Cottage) in Dingshan Street, Jiangbei New District, the Dandelion Bookstore in Yanjiang Street, and the "Reading Yuemei" Children's Library in Pancheng Street; the Children's Library in Xinjiekou Street, Xuanwu District, the Children's Library in Hongshan Street, the Children's Library of Meiyuan Xincun Street Comprehensive Cultural Station, and the Children's Reading Space in Xiaolingwei Street; the Children's Reading Space in Yiyuan Community in Mochouhu Street, Jianye District, the Joyful Book Bar in Xinglong Street, the Book Sea Picking Shell in Nanyuan Street, and the Children's Reading Bar in Shazhou Street Gulou District, Nanjing Gulou Guangzhou Road Community Big Hand Reading Space, Qingse Book House, Central Gate Street "Sanzhitang Children's Reading Space", Lu Xunyuan Sanwei Book House, Jiayuan Book House, Rehe South Road Qingjiang Garden Reading Space, Bund • Community Book Lang and so on.
"The completion and opening of 102 children's libraries is only the starting point, and the realization of efficient operation and high-quality service supply is the fundamental." Fang Zhangwu introduced that in the next step, we will focus on standardized operation and efficiency play, continue to promote free opening, update reading resources, children's reading promotion, etc., and continuously promote the high-quality development of children's reading services in the city.
(Edited by Huang Yuanyuan)