What is the purpose of building a library?

Abstract: Culture is the spiritual pillar of a nation, a country, and a person. In the development of our country’s civilization for more than 5,000 years, it has created a profound and world-renowned Chinese culture, which has contributed to the development and growth of the Chinese nation. It provided powerful spiritual power and made an indelible and significant contribution to the progress of human civilization. At present, the construction of cultural undertakings in our country is entering a new stage of development. As an important part of socialist cultural construction, libraries must not only maintain their own advantages and continue to develop cultural development in the whole society under the new situation and new requirements. The important role of promotion is to seek breakthroughs so that it can develop and grow in the construction of socialist culture.

Keywords: The role of libraries in building culture

In the new century, culture has become an important consideration of a country’s comprehensive national strength. Competition between countries and relationships between people Exchanges are increasingly represented by cultural collisions and exchanges, and strengthening cultural construction has become a general trend. Our country is currently entering a new stage of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. Accelerating cultural construction and improving cultural taste are no longer just the requirements of a certain region or a certain group of people, but have become the common consciousness and pursuit of the entire society. As an important part of cultural construction and a social welfare cultural service institution, the library has a complete collection of literature and materials in a wide range of disciplines, rich varieties, and diverse types, which can satisfy people from all walks of life, all ages, and all kinds of interests. The characteristics of demand attract a large number of people who are hungry for scientific and cultural knowledge, and are playing an increasingly important role in the construction of social and cultural undertakings and the construction of individuals' own cultural qualities.

1. The meaning and role of cultural construction

The meaning of the word construction is to establish in an all-round, multi-angle and in-depth manner. Cultural construction is to vigorously carry out cultural construction and promote culture. cause, promote social and cultural prosperity and development, enhance the overall quality of the nation, and improve the people's spiritual life. In today's society, culture is an important part of a country's comprehensive national strength. Cultural life is an important indicator of people's quality of life. People have more and more demands for culture and their requirements are getting higher and higher. Establishing a cultural system in an all-round, multi-angle and in-depth manner is in line with the requirements of the times and social development.

2. The role and social value of libraries

With the progress and development of society, modern libraries play the role of collecting, organizing, preserving, disseminating documents and providing them for use. It has functions such as preserving human cultural heritage, participating in social education, transmitting scientific knowledge, developing intellectual resources, and providing cultural entertainment.

The existence of libraries has always played an indelible role in the inheritance of human culture and the development of spiritual civilization. Now, libraries are existing as scientific, cultural, educational and scientific research institutions in the social and cultural system, promoting the development and prosperity of socialist culture.

3. The important role of libraries in cultural construction

1. Libraries are an important carrier of socialist spiritual civilization and cultural construction.

The construction of the library meets the needs of cultural construction and the requirements of the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and China's ad hoc socialist cultural construction to improve the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality of the Chinese nation; it meets the requirements of the Chinese Communist Party The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Deepening the Reform of the Cultural System and Promoting the Development and Prosperity of Socialist Culture" passed by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that it should meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people, enhance the country's cultural soft power, and promote the Chinese nation. Culture, the requirement of building a socialist cultural power. Taking Dafeng City as an example, according to the requirements of the "Outline of the National Cultural Development Plan for the Eleventh Five-Year Plan Period": "County (city) libraries will gradually implement a general branch system", the Dafeng Municipal Party Committee and Government attach great importance to the construction of township libraries. and development, regard this construction as an important task to improve people's livelihood and cultural construction, and include it in the "Top Ten Livelihood Projects in Urban Areas in 2010". It is planned that by the end of 2012, the Dafeng Library General Branch System (Dafeng Model ) will build 14 municipal libraries’ township branches, achieve the goal of fully covering the city’s township branches, and build a new urban-rural integrated public library service system. The implementation of this work will achieve leap-forward development of cultural undertakings, enable more people to learn cultural knowledge independently, improve their own quality, and promote the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and culture.

2. The library is a document and information center

The library can be said to be the largest knowledge center in a city. It has a variety of documents and complete contents, with paper Save in various ways such as quality and electronic documents. People of different classes, ages and needs can obtain the information they need through the library. In libraries, history will no longer appear mysterious, and advanced science and technology will no longer appear out of reach. With the huge amount of information, libraries attract more and more people to obtain knowledge through walking into the library.

3. The library is an important part of social education

With the development of society, people are more and more thirsty for cultural knowledge, and their desire to receive re-education is becoming increasingly strong. As a public cultural service institution, the library has a strong social publicity and education function. Through its rich collections and various media, it disseminates advanced ideas, ethics, science and technology and cultural knowledge, helping the people improve their own quality and promote National learning and other aspects play an important role. People study here without being restricted by time, space, age, or cultural level, and it is deeply loved by the masses. At present, Dafeng City Library has a collection of nearly 300,000 volumes of various types of literature. It is open to the public free of charge 365 days a year. It has more than 30,000 adult and children's certified readers (including nearly 20,000 children's readers), and receives about 400,000 readers annually. More and more people are entering the library, and the library is becoming a real center for knowledge transfer, social education, and cultural dissemination.

4. The library is an important part of the public cultural service system

The construction and development of socialist cultural undertakings requires us to vigorously develop public welfare cultural undertakings and ensure the people’s basic cultural rights. Meeting the people's basic cultural needs is the basic task of socialist cultural construction. The library has been welcomed by the general public for its public welfare, convenience and extensiveness. Through the improvement of infrastructure and the development of various activities such as reading and artistic performances, libraries have enriched people's daily lives, met people's needs for spiritual food, and allowed people to universally and equally enjoy public library services and reading rights. , which plays a positive role in promoting the development of cultural undertakings and scientific knowledge dissemination.

5. The library is an important part of cultural construction

Culture is the blood of the nation and the spiritual home of the people. Cultural construction has always been an important aspect in the overall layout of my country's modernization drive. The value of culture lies in its influence on people's spiritual level, and through its inner influence, it improves people's quality and cultivation. As the most accessible learning place outside of school, the library uses its own advantages to increase the influence of culture in society and promote the development of cultural undertakings.

4. Promote library construction and further promote the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings

1. Strengthen service awareness, innovate service methods, and create a strong reading atmosphere

Service is A reflection of soft power and competitiveness in the development of a business. In a critical period of great leaps and bounds in the development of social and cultural undertakings, libraries, as public service institutions, must expand their service scope, broaden their service areas, and provide high-quality services to readers through various channels and approaches, so that library resources Get the most efficient use; improve service quality and service level by striving to strengthen your own cultural accomplishment. Today, when innovation is the main theme of the times, we must also realize that the traditional simple borrowing work method can no longer meet the needs of readers. We must promptly adjust our service concepts and improve our service methods. We must build a public digital cultural communication service system with rich resources, advanced technology, efficient communication, convenient services, and standardized management; we must build a new platform for the public cultural service system full of vitality and vitality. We must proactively carry out various service activities to benefit the people, actively create a reading culture, bring reading activities to people, let people understand the role of libraries, and realize the importance of libraries in strengthening people's cultural quality.

2. Improve the scientific and technological content and accelerate the construction of digital libraries

With the advancement of social science and technology, digitization and networking are being integrated into people's lives. The emergence of the information highway, the network The emergence of information resources has completely destroyed people's traditional reading methods. Going into the library to browse paper materials can no longer satisfy people's ever-accelerating pace of life. The development of libraries must keep pace with the times, focus on meeting the needs of readers, and actively move closer to digitization and networking.

The establishment of a digital library will greatly increase the promotion of advanced culture. At the same time, as a cultural carrier, the construction of a digital library platform will greatly speed up the spread and exchange of culture, enrich cultural resources, and promote the wide coverage of cultural undertakings and cultural exchanges. High utilization of resources. A series of measures such as improving the quality of digital resources, building a high-quality digital resource system, implementing the construction of public electronic reading rooms, and establishing a basic library of public cultural digital resources should become a major direction for future library construction.

3. Strengthen cultural sharing and increase inter-regional library cooperation and exchange

Based on the current actual situation of my country’s cultural undertakings and the level of scientific and technological development, only relying on individual books The library's literature and materials can no longer satisfy people's thirst for cultural knowledge. It is on this basis that the country has formulated and implemented the national cultural information resources sharing project. The construction and sharing of documentary resources is the need of social development and the direction of the development of today's library industry, which is conducive to the improvement of books. The overall service level of the hotel. The cultural enjoyment project improves the informatization level of rural areas, forms the overall advantage of cultural information resources on the Internet, enriches the spiritual and cultural life of the people, especially those in economically underdeveloped areas, protects the cultural rights and interests of the people, and satisfies people at different levels. It has played an important role in meeting the cultural needs of the country, narrowing the gap in cultural development between eastern and western regions and between urban and rural areas, building a new socialist countryside, and building a harmonious society.

4. Pay attention to cultural quality and promote the healthy development of cultural undertakings

People come to the library with the purpose of obtaining correct and useful resources, providing excellent services to readers, and establishing advanced libraries. The fundamental purpose of a digital library is to have excellent and sophisticated cultural resources. In today's society, cultural resources are updated very quickly. We must know how to take the essence and discard the dross, and provide readers with the latest and best cultural resources. Libraries can protect the cultural sources of libraries and ensure the healthy development of cultural undertakings by formulating a complete cultural product evaluation system, implementing strict monitoring systems, strengthening the protection of excellent cultural resources, and other measures.

In short, as an important carrier of cultural undertakings, libraries will surely deepen and develop with the continuous advancement of the socialist cause, and play an important role in building a harmonious socialist society, improving the quality of the whole people, and promoting advanced scientific and cultural knowledge. important role.

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