On the morning of April 2nd, the launching ceremony of the series of activities of the "4.2 International Children's Book Day" and "Guangzhou Reading Month" For Minors reading carnival in 2022 was kicked off in the lecture hall on the third floor of Guangzhou Children's Library, and the "Guangzhou Reading Month" full of fairy tale colors and book fragrance was opened.
"April 2 International Children's Book Day" theme poster video exhibition
This year, in order to let more readers know about the "International Children's Book Day" on April 2, Guangzhou Children's Library specially produced a poster video on the theme of "International Children's Book Day" to enhance the society's attention and love for minors' reading, and to convey the concept of happy reading and lifelong reading.
Tu Zipei brought a keynote speech "Big Data and Artificial Intelligence"
At the launching ceremony, Tu Zipei, a big data expert and author of "Tell Children About Artificial Intelligence", brought a keynote speech "Big Data and Artificial Intelligence". Teacher Tu expounded the concept, application and relationship between big data and artificial intelligence with vivid examples and popular language.
He stressed that big data not only includes numbers, words, sounds, pictures and videos, but also represents the data generated by all people, all machines, and all sensors in all corners of the world. Through the analysis of big data, scientists have blossomed the flower of "artificial intelligence" on the soil of "big data". At the same time, Teacher Tu also taught us how to discover knowledge and laws from a large amount of data, cultivate new thinking, and cultivate scientific literacy that adapts to the era of intelligence.
It is reported that on the morning of the "4.23" World Book Day, Teacher Tu Zipei will once again visit the Guangzhou Children's Library to tell the story of "Talking with the Innovation World - Talking about Entrepreneurship and Innovative Thinking with Parent-Child Families" at the "Yangcheng Junior Academy", combining the Chinese and foreign stories of innovation and entrepreneurship, conveying the abilities and characteristics required for innovation and entrepreneurship, and inspiring parents how to cultivate their children's innovative thinking.
Primary school students are the main body of the reading group for minors, and 9-year-old children borrow the most books
At the ceremony, Wu Cuihong, director of the Juvenile Service Professional Committee of the Guangdong Library Association and deputy director of the Guangzhou Children's Library, released the "2021 Guangzhou Public Library Minors Reading Report", which is not only a professional children's reading list, but also reflects the bright performance of the guangzhou public library's juvenile service.
Director Wu pointed out that in the opening year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", reading for minors in Guangzhou has made a good start. In 2021, the city's children's readers accounted for 31.35% of the city's readers, and the number of children's readers lent accounted for 63.79% of the city's loans; the annual number of new children's readers reached 230,800, an increase of 104.07% over 2020, and the group of children's readers was further expanded. In the whole year, 10,400 children's reader activities were held, an increase of 90.61% year-on-year, and the number of people participating in children's reader activities reached 5.9456 million.
Children and adolescents have adapted to the normalized environment of epidemic prevention and control, coupled with the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, the reading momentum has resumed and risen, and it continues to become the most dynamic and potential reading group in public libraries, and is a veritable paper reading force. Primary school students are the main body of the reading group for minors, and the number of active readers of each age is the highest, and the number of books borrowed by the 9-year-old group is the largest.
In terms of children's borrowing preferences, literary books rank first in the list, followed by popular science and art books. Red classic literature accounted for 12% of the top 50 search hot words in 2021 books, coinciding with the craze of red classic reading in the centenary of the founding of the Party, and what is more gratifying is that "Red Rock" jumped to the top of the children's lending list. In addition, in the stage of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the utilization of digital resources continues to increase significantly.
More than 100 reading promotion activities in the city
This year's "4.2 International Children's Book Day" and "Guangzhou Reading Month" Reading Carnival for Minors will be held for one month. During the period, the city's public libraries carefully planned more than 100 reading promotion activities, the main features of which are: the "Spark" special collection exhibition of "Fairy Tales in the Spark" planned by the Guangzhou Children's Library, the "Warm Love Garden" special group series of activities, the "Book Xiangmen" "Delivery" to Enjoy Reading - "Book Delivery to the Door" to benefit the people, the "Fairy Tale Cube Dream Space" - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, the "Book Fragrant Childhood Bel Canto" 2022 Guangdong Youth American Recitation Display Activity (Guangzhou Division), etc.
"Fairy Tales in The Spark" "Spark" Special Collection Exhibition
Guangzhou Library plans to carry out the "Signing the World" 2022 Youth Bookmark Design Exchange Activity, Reading Guangzhou, Warm Childhood - "Innocent Ability" Art Exhibition Series Activities, "Comic Reading • My Chinese Story" Guangdong Province's Second Youth and Children's Art Creation Exchange Activity, Reading Climbing Plan, [Books and Distant Places] Study - "Reading cantonese opera" experience class, etc.
In addition, there is the "Flower Chart, Happy 60th Anniversary" of huadu district library! "Painting and Greeting Card Collection Activity; Tribute to classics from Conghua District Library - Online Reading Activity of Conghua District Library Alliance; Liwan District Library's Liwan Reading Time Salon: Canton Nursery Rhymes; Huangpu District Library's "Children's Voice Reading, Book-fragrant Life" - World Book Day Special Reading Session, etc.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Xiaolei