Foshan "easy book" leverages the huge family book collection resources with the sharing concept
2022-05-10
Wu Xiaozhu, a citizen of Foshan, found a trick. For popular books that can't be found or difficult to borrow in public libraries, it's easier to borrow them on the "easy book" platform. "Easy book" comes from the home collection book sharing platform launched by Foshan Library. As the homonym of "one book", it means "exchange" and "easy". It tells the core idea of sharing family collections through book exchange, that is, revitalizing the collection resources in citizens' homes and realizing the sharing and circulation of family collections in the whole society. In fact, family books are a huge untapped resource. Taking Guangdong as an example, most families who were rated as "scholarly families" in 2019 have a collection of more than 3000 books, with a maximum of 45000 books; In 2021, the average family collection of books in Foshan was 115, and the family collection of books was considerable. How to activate the family collection and make it a social shared resource, and how to promote national reading through book sharing are new topics faced by Foshan Library in practice. Since the launch of "easy book" in April 2021, as of April this year, the platform has uploaded more than 24000 copies of home collections and generated more than 6000 borrowing orders: citizens can upload idle books at home for others to borrow, or borrow books uploaded by others. There are four circulation modes: limited period borrowing, drifting, gift and display. As an experienced person, Wu Xiaozhu not only borrowed the popular cartoon "the Chinese history of seley comics" for her son on this platform, but also uploaded 732 copies of her own home collection books. "The value of books is generated in reading. I am a reader who loves reading and buying books. Most of the books I have read are tied to the high Pavilion. It is the most gratifying thing to be able to make them glow with the light of life again in the 'easy book'." "Public resources have the natural characteristics of limitation and scarcity, while the spiritual and cultural needs of the people are growing day by day. There is a contradiction between limited resources and supply and demand. The problems such as insufficient supply of public cultural products, insufficient connection between supply and demand of services, resource allocation and utilization rate to be improved, and unbalanced development of digital service capacity are still common problems faced by the development of public cultural services." Huang Baichuan, director of Foshan Library, said that the construction of the "easy book" platform is in response to the special action of "efficiency revolution" of public cultural facilities carried out in recent years, improving the coverage of public library services and resources and expanding the participation of social subjects through innovative service modes. The next step is to build a bibliographic Library of home collected books, optimize the flow and circulation functions in combination with intelligent service system and big data, and build a new ecosystem of reading services for the whole people. "Let the family collection flow and greatly enrich the supply of social book resources. This practice is innovative." Li Guoxin, a professor at Peking University and chief expert of the National Committee of experts on culture and tourism public services, believes that under the guidance of the concept of shared development, the field of public culture is striving to build a service platform integrating online and offline, so that the whole society can share public resources and let the people have more sense of gain in co construction and sharing. It is reported that in recent years, Foshan has implemented the relevant spirit of the central government and Guangdong Province, issued an action plan for the high-quality development of public cultural service system, focused on the special action of "efficiency revolution" of public cultural facilities, took the improvement of the efficiency of basic cultural facilities as a key task, and effectively solved the prominent problems such as low utilization rate of facilities, weak sense of existence of facilities and insufficient public participation Neighborhood library, "ancestral temple + culture", digital museum and other projects have been continuously promoted to promote the universal, high-quality, diversified and sustainable development of Foshan public culture in the new era. (outlook new era)
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