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Innovative Construction Mode of Urban Study in China

City study is a self-service public library, which is led by the government and operated by social forces, relying on the central library at all levels. It adopts automatic equipment and radio frequency technology and opens 24 hours a day. Urban study integrates paper resources and digital resources, reading service and convenience service, which is the modern extension and beneficial supplement of traditional reading position.

 

1. "External Communication" Mode of Wenzhou and Kunming

Wenzhou began to build its first urban study in April 2014, and now there are 52 urban study rooms embedded in many corners of the city with different design styles. In early 2019, Wenzhou’s "Urban Study" officially landed in its friendly city, Prato, Italy. This is China's first urban study to enter Europe.

 

In addition to Wenzhou, Kunming also takes the urban study as one of the channels of city external communication. Up to now, Kunming has donated 11 "Kunming City Bookstores" to 6 countries, including Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Laos, which has aroused strong repercussions among overseas Chinese.

 

2. "Convenient Service" Mode of Yangzhou and Chongqing

Yangzhou takes urban study as the extension of the library, and builds the city study around the citizens, which makes the "Yangzhou Phenomenon" of the urban study.

 

Chongqing will also provide convenient services as the core of urban study construction. The simple operation and guidance interface of the equipment in the study is convenient for readers to operate, which greatly reflects the word "convenience".

 

3. Luoyang's Mode of "Study + Major Events "

Luoyang has built 24 urban study rooms in parks, squares, schools and other places and put them into use, equipped with first-aid boxes, umbrellas and other convenient service facilities. In addition, Luoyang also actively organized various reading promotion activities, forming a number of reading activity brands, such as Heluo Poetry Conference, Classic Reading Contest and so on.

 

 

 

Guo Ying, Liu Hanxin. Analysis on the Development Status and Mode of Urban Study. Fresh Reading,

2020(07): 55-56