During this year's National Day holiday, some people choose to travel, some people choose to go home to visit relatives, some people choose to rest at home, and many people choose to wander the sea of books and spend a holiday full of books.
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Small numbers, tight seating...
Have you experienced these problems?
In the autumn and winter, when the national civil service examination, postgraduate examination and qualification and grade examinations of various industries are about to be held, the location of the provincial library study area is already overcrowded. According to the library staff, college students, middle school students and test preparation students are the main force of the National Day holiday "bubble hall".
Yang Qian, who has been preparing for the civil service examination, is a regular visitor to the provincial library. She said that it is easy to be lazy and lazy in reviewing at home, and the learning atmosphere in the library is strong, the spirit is easier to concentrate, and the learning effect is good.
However, the small number of libraries, short opening hours, and shortage of seats in the library are the distress of many people like Yang Qian. Yang Qian said that when the library studies after work, it is often faced with the situation that the library will close or make an appointment without a place for a long time, and it is even more difficult to reserve seats on holidays.
It is understood that the provincial library is open from 13:00 to 17:00 every Monday, from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 to 19:30, and from 9:00 to 17:00 on statutory holidays, and the opening hours are almost the same as the working hours of the people.
"The atmosphere in the library is good, and the children can sit still and see it." Ms. An, who often brings her children to the provincial library to read books, said that because there is no library near her home, the provincial library is far away, and children are sometimes reluctant to run far to read books.
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How to alleviate the library
The "hard to find" problem?
With the gradual popularization of "reading for all" in the hearts of the people, the public's demand for public learning spaces is growing, which is not only a necessary condition for building a learning society, but also an important place for the people to achieve lifelong learning. Therefore, it is imperative to increase the number of libraries, improve the level of public cultural services, and meet the growing demand for learning and spiritual culture.
At this year's provincial two sessions, Jia Shenli, member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the library of Xi'an Jiaotong University, submitted a proposal on strengthening the construction and service of public libraries in Xi'an. Jia Shenli suggested that we should increase capital investment, gradually increase the number of district and county public libraries, and achieve full coverage of public libraries in all districts and counties within the city. At the same time, the opening hours of public libraries at all levels should be appropriately extended, and the opening hours should be appropriately staggered with the general working hours to ensure that the leisure time of the masses is opened in an orderly manner, especially during the winter and summer vacations of students and holidays.
How to alleviate the "hard to find" problem in libraries? Jia Shenli suggested that on the basis of the existing venue facilities, more reading seats should be added, and a self-study room that can be flexibly separated from the library should be set up to facilitate the extension of the opening hours of the self-study room. In addition, in the future, in the planning and design of public libraries, various forms of public spaces should be set up to facilitate the masses to read and learn in the library and jointly create a learning-oriented social environment.
According to Gao Yang, director of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, our province will further promote the equalization of public cultural services, issue the "Shaanxi Provincial Public Cultural Service Guarantee Regulations", promote the legislation of the "Shaanxi Provincial Public Library Regulations", promote the effective sinking of various cultural resources and services to benefit the people, and realize the free opening of 118 public libraries, 119 cultural centers, and more than 20,000 grass-roots comprehensive cultural service centers in the province to the society.
In addition to public libraries, as an important part of the library system, university libraries should also become an important driving force for promoting reading for all while serving the teaching and scientific research of colleges and universities.
As a major province of education and culture, Shaanxi has many colleges and universities such as Xi'an Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Northwest University, Shaanxi Normal University, Northwest A&F University, etc. The library area, paper book stock, electronic resources, and advanced management methods of these university libraries are incomparable to other libraries. However, at present, these university libraries are only open to teachers and students of the university, especially on holidays, the library is almost idle, resulting in a huge waste of book resources.
"The opening of university libraries to the outside world can not only avoid idle and wasteful resources, realize resource sharing, provide more learning materials for the majority of readers, but also promote the development of cultural industries, which is an indispensable part of urban cultural construction." Jiang Binfeng, member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the Xianyang Municipal Committee of the China Democratic Progressive Party, said that in order to ensure that the people make full use of book resources, improve the utilization rate of library resources, and fully implement the "Reading Project for all" plan, university libraries should be opened to the public as soon as possible.
Jiang Binfeng suggested that a thorough investigation of the province's book resources should be conducted, a research report on the stock and distribution of book resources should be formed, and an implementation plan for the integration of book resources in colleges and universities should be formulated. Under the premise of ensuring that teachers and students of colleges and universities learn to borrow, each university should make use of its own disciplinary advantages to plan relevant opening service measures such as the reasonable time, place, period and scope of book borrowing. In addition, it is necessary to make use of the advantages of Internet resources and mobile terminals to develop the integration function of smart library resources centered on big data, and actively publicize and popularize it to the public, so that the public can directly consult materials from the university library website or the special database open to the public, and further promote the formation of a good learning atmosphere in the whole society.
Herald intern reporter Bai Yao reporter Li Rong/Wen
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