23 April, World Book Day. A stylish and elegant gray-blue building in the northeast corner of the Municipal Sports Park became a popular "punch card" on the day. This morning, the much-concerned Loudi City Library unveiled the mystery and made a stunning appearance, and many citizens came to exhibit books and volumes in the warm sun of Fangfei in April.
The opening of this library with a total area of 8,021 square meters and an existing collection of more than 164,500 books ended the history of no municipal library in our city, and also presented a practical cultural gift to the citizens. At 8:30 a.m., half an hour before the opening of the museum, readers lined up to enter the museum. Li Jinhan, a 12-year-old girl who lives near the city sports park, got up at 7 o'clock and stood guard at the door of the library with her mother at 8 o'clock. "My daughter is a little bookworm, and when she heard that the city library was open, she was clamoring to come at 8 o'clock." Li Jinhan's mother's seemingly helpless tone was full of joy, "Very happy, the child has one more place to read." "There are not a few citizens who are as anxious as them, and they all want to feel this new reading space for the first time."
30 seconds to get a certificate and 10 seconds to borrow books
After scanning the code and measuring the temperature, entering the museum, the first thing that catches the eye is a self-service card machine.
The reporter held a second-generation ID card and completed the reader card processing in only 30 seconds, without any cost. Under the warm prompt of the staff, the reporter also bound the electronic card through the "Loudi City Library" public account, "in the future, you can directly borrow books with the electronic reading card, you can view the borrowing list on the mobile phone, and you can also carry out bibliographic retrieval, book renewal, book recommendation and purchase and other operations." "You can also record a face, borrow a book later, just brush your face." The staff patiently guided the reporters to experience the intelligent borrowing system.
Next to the self-service card machine, there are also 4 machines that can be operated by the reader, which are responsible for borrowing and returning books. "It's so fast, it's so convenient!" Mr. Wang, a citizen who has been witnessing the reporter's handling of the permit, could not hold back, quickly opened a reading card, took three steps and made two steps straight to the comprehensive reading room, took down 3 books, followed the prompts, and completed the borrowing registration on the self-service borrowing machine in 10 seconds. "It's amazing, why are these books stacked on top of each other, it knows which ones to borrow, it's amazing!" Mr. Wang couldn't help but sigh.
Standing in front of the book inquiry machine, Citizen Zhu Yaping issued the same feeling. Ms. Zhu loves to read literature and history books, and wants to find a "Late Qian zhong book", enter the title of the book on the book inquiry machine, and the information about the status, location, index number and other information of the book "Late Qian Zhong Book" will be clear at a glance. "In the past, to find books, you need to find them one by one on the shelves, which took time and effort and had to try your luck, but I didn't expect to find them here in less than a minute."
convenient! shortcut! It is the unanimous evaluation of the city library by readers.
"Technology is enough." It is another feature that journalists hear frequently mentioned in the library. In addition to self-service card machines and borrowing machines, readers can also enjoy more than 380,000 electronic books, 880 hours of video resources and about 60 hours of audio materials covering 22 categories such as politics, economics, philosophy and history through self-service libraries, multimedia electronic experience areas, multimedia electronic literature reading rooms and other equipment and facilities.
The convenient and efficient reading experience brought by the intelligent lending terminal is well received by readers, and some readers post in the circle of friends: "The city library opens, feel that you have a luxurious 'big study', brush your face, you can take your favorite books home for free in a few seconds, and with a single click, you can easily browse hundreds of thousands of electronic books... Life is really getting better and better, and the city is getting better and better. ”
"If there is heaven, it should be like a library"
"If there is heaven, it should be like a library." The famous poet Borges once commented on this.
This is not an exaggeration to describe the Loudi City Library. Walk through the picturesque Municipal Sports Park and into the Municipal Library, with open spaces and bright public areas that are quiet and welcoming. Inside the library, some readers hold books in their hands and browse the world in the ink of books; some click the mouse to enjoy the vast world of e-books. They are either leisurely or attentive or joyful, enjoying a wonderful reading time.
Walking in the vast sea of reading time and space, let the spirit bloom, is a happy thing. The clever environmental design and meticulous service concept in the museum are also full of bookish interest.
The comprehensive reading room on the right side of the first floor is lined with calm and warm log bookshelves, dotted with greenery, and there is a kind of comfort and ease that returns to nature. Large wooden desks are set up by windows with electronically accessible computers. Holding a book, sitting in a corner, the fragrance of books and the spring color outside the window coexist, in the view of the citizen Xiao Ciwen, this reading experience has a relaxed freehand of reading in "nature".
The children's reading area on the left has changed its rustic color and presented a colorful jump of color. Colorful colors, bookshelves of different shapes, diverse seat combinations, and cartoon-style smart borrowing machines have greatly satisfied the reading experience of young readers. The 11-year-old Zeng Haoyuan child couldn't help but marvel as she walked around: "This library is really great." Miss Deng and the child, who live near Loudi No. 3 Middle School, snuggled up in a sunken round chair and read a copy of "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes" together, she said: "My child especially likes to read fairy tale books, read picture books, but the books in the home are limited after all, this time it is good, there are so many books to read at will, the environment is good, and I will try to bring my children every weekend in the future." ”
Picking up the stairs and walking into the Loudi Humanities Museum on the second floor, the reporter trances through another time and space, on the quaint bookshelf, from the "Zeng Guofan Family Book" and "Loudi Historical Literature" to the "Loudi Intangible Cultural Heritage" and "Star City Poetry", the literature and works that span ancient and modern times will slowly introduce the history and humanities of Loudi.
In the theme reading hall, the most intimate is the visually impaired reading room. The room is equipped with more than 2,000 braille materials and books, tens of thousands of audiobooks, as well as tv electronic visual aids, one-touch intelligent readers, audio-visual reading machines, special computer systems for the visually impaired and other equipment, so that visually impaired readers can swim in the sea of books like ordinary readers and fully enjoy the convenience brought by public cultural services.
Social science literature reading room, natural science literature reading room, newspaper and periodical reading room, self-service library... This 3-storey library, every space, is a "treasure". Within one hour of opening, the number of readers in the library exceeded the limit. In the face of an endless stream of readers, the library urgently launched the dynamic management of "out of one in one". According to statistics, the municipal library received a total of 3107 readers on the first day, handled 767 reader cards, and borrowed 1456 books.
More than just a library
Qian Zhongshu said that borrowing books is the beginning of love. Ning Xueping, director of the Municipal Library, had the same idea as Qian Lao's. In his view, when readers enter the library, they open a beautiful and precious fate. But libraries begin with borrowing books for patrons, but not only for books.
"The opening of the municipal library is an important position for the whole people to read, and provides a good service window for the people to solve the problem of reading difficulties." Ning Xueping said that as a modern library with complete functions and advanced equipment, it should not only be a physical entity for storing and borrowing books, but also a spiritual subject that creates a reading atmosphere and cultivates reading taste, and is a public cultural space in the city.
This library does have such confidence. From the first floor to the third floor, the 8,021-square-meter building is like a cultural secret, in addition to the orderly distribution of 11 theme reading halls, there are also diversified functional areas such as maker spaces, training classrooms, and multi-functional lecture halls. Ning Xueping said that after the completion of the construction of the municipal library, the city has invested more than 26 million yuan, and has done a lot of "addition" in the function of the traditional public library, that is, I hope that readers are not only readers and audiences, but also experiencers, acquirers and enjoyers who come to obtain massive wisdom information, rich cultural experience, and diversified customized services.
Based on this concept, the Municipal Library is currently actively exploring a cooperation model with the Municipal Xinhua Bookstore, through the Xinhua Bookstore to set up a special experience branch in the Municipal Library, the Municipal Library in the Municipal Xinhua Bookstore store step by step to set up a library branch, forming the characteristics of "the store in the library, the store in the store", not only innovating the service space integration of the library and the bookstore, but also providing readers with more convenience such as borrowing and returning. In the later stage of operation, the library will also make full use of the advantages of venues and resources to extend from reading
Go out, increase the linkage with social institutions, reading promotion organizations, cultural and creative enthusiasts, etc., through the creation of reading clubs, public lectures, classic recitation, exhibitions, cultural salons and other activities, to create an open, integrated, and shared public space, to meet the public's diverse cultural needs such as learning and learning, mutual exchanges, culture and leisure.
"In the next step, we will gradually enrich the collection of books, increase the construction of smart libraries, promote the continuous optimization and upgrading of reading resources, and make every effort to build a national secondary library."
Through the words of Director Ning Xueping, it is conceivable that the future of this library and Loudi, a city of books, will become more and more exciting.
Source: Loudi Daily All-media reporter Duan Fengjing Correspondent Gong Huiqing
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