Mobile library helps community
February 28, 2011, Monday
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QIU Songkang, director of Huangpu Library in Shanghai's Huangpu District, says the digital world is providing a strong challenge to traditional library services.
"It's convenient to read online," Qiu says. "It's easy to search periodicals and books. But sometimes people get restless sitting for so long in front of a computer screen. Often the best moments of my day are when I can have some peace of mind while reading in bed before going to sleep."
Despite the challenge, Qiu believes that books are not losing out to online books as they do have an advantage in terms of their role as historical documents.
"Libraries are static. Books are static," Qiu says. "They are there for people to come and take them. They always seem to be waiting for those who will find them as valuable as treasure. Books should play a bigger role in people's lives.
"Thus we have provided a mobile library service to make reading more convenient for those who cannot afford to buy books."
Since the 1980s, Huangpu Library's mobile version has reached out to enterprises, communities, the military and the poor.
The district's firefighters, taxi drivers, prisoners and juvenile delinquents have all benefited from it.
Qiu introduces that each unit, such as an enterprise, can have a group card. It enables them to borrow 1,000 books at a time. The library will arrange the delivery of books. Every two months, the books will be replaced with a new batch.
"We want to make reading a bigger part of people's lives and libraries a more important part of society."
"It's convenient to read online," Qiu says. "It's easy to search periodicals and books. But sometimes people get restless sitting for so long in front of a computer screen. Often the best moments of my day are when I can have some peace of mind while reading in bed before going to sleep."
Despite the challenge, Qiu believes that books are not losing out to online books as they do have an advantage in terms of their role as historical documents.
"Libraries are static. Books are static," Qiu says. "They are there for people to come and take them. They always seem to be waiting for those who will find them as valuable as treasure. Books should play a bigger role in people's lives.
"Thus we have provided a mobile library service to make reading more convenient for those who cannot afford to buy books."
Since the 1980s, Huangpu Library's mobile version has reached out to enterprises, communities, the military and the poor.
The district's firefighters, taxi drivers, prisoners and juvenile delinquents have all benefited from it.
Qiu introduces that each unit, such as an enterprise, can have a group card. It enables them to borrow 1,000 books at a time. The library will arrange the delivery of books. Every two months, the books will be replaced with a new batch.
"We want to make reading a bigger part of people's lives and libraries a more important part of society."
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