Books are few, updated slowly, and books borrowed.
"Shu Xiang Quancheng 24 hours self-help library" in the provincial capital for more than half a year, but encountered a situation called not to be called. As the "third generation library", the self-help library has small area, comprehensive function and simple use. Why is it difficult to promote the library? 6 days, the reporter investigated it.
borrowing books need nine steps
6 days. In the self-help Library of Quancheng Square, there are many chatting and cool residents and tourists around the library. The library has no one to borrow books for a long time. Only a few people have seen the bibliography and the operation flow of the library in the past. "There are no children's books. They are adults' books." A mother took her children to read books and found no books to borrow.
the reporter saw the "automatic book borrowing" service in the 24 hour self-help Library Guide on the wall, including a total of nine steps, such as selecting business, brushing card, and entering password. "Young people may understand at a glance that old people sometimes do not understand." Ms. Wang, who is enjoying the cool, said she had borrowed several books here, and felt that the procedure was troublesome. The self help library of
Cabernet square is also facing a similar dilemma. One of the nearby citizens, Mr. Zhang, ran a library card at the beginning of this year. "There is a good place to borrow books out of the door. I have been the 'loyal reader' of this small library. I have come over to change books and read five or six books a month." Mr. Zhang said, unfortunately, fewer books, slower updates, often want to see other books can not find.
experts suggest that
according to the requirements of the book, it is understood that since the self-help library has fallen to the ground in Ji'nan for more than half a year, only more than 700 people have handled the library card and borrowed more than 12000 books.
a staff member of the Ji'nan Municipal Library told a reporter that the self-help library was limited in number, although the number of people borrowed was limited in spite of the opening of the library for 24 hours. "There are more people borrowed on Saturday and Sunday, and forty or fifty books can be borrowed a day."
"self service library location is often inconspicuous and difficult to arouse passers-by's attention. Now many people in Ji'nan do not know that there are such advanced self-help libraries. Shandong Normal University library administrator Wan An Zhejiang said that the reasons for the lack of readers in the self-help library, in addition to fewer books and more books, is the most important thing is that the publicity is not in place. You can do more activities like reading festivals to attract the public's attention.
How can the self-help library call and seat? Wan Ann Zhejiang put forward several suggestions: to do an investigation in the vicinity of the library to understand the population throughput, level and interest of the surrounding areas, and then put books in accordance with the needs of the surrounding citizens, increase the number of books, speed up the speed of renewal, and try to meet the needs of the audience as much as possible. At the same time, in the early stage of the launch of the self-help library can arrange staff to explain the operating procedures, and can also organize social groups, college students volunteer to teach some old people how to borrow, so that they are no longer prohibitive to this advanced equipment and play the social public welfare nature of the self-help library.