Reading is like farming. Diligence leads to abundance.
-Looking at the National Reading Activity from the Golden Book Award
"April 23rd" World Reading Day is coming again.
Chen Li, deputy director of the National Library, clearly remembers that on this day in 2004, at the grand meeting held in Jinwen Square of the National Library, when Professor Wang Xuan, the founder of the Chinese character laser phototypesetting system, unveiled the sign of "reading for all", the crowd applauded warmly. That is, from that moment on, many people in China gradually became familiar with the word "reading for all" and learned that there is another festival about reading in the world-World Reading Day. Shortly thereafter, the Jinwen Book Award was founded in the National Library and has been held for ten times.
From the novelty and curiosity when I first saw "reading for all" to the fact that "advocating reading for all" was written into the government work report for two consecutive years, the concept of reading for all has been deeply rooted in people's hearts for more than ten years, and various reading activities have blossomed everywhere. The Jinwen Book Award was also held by the National Library of that year. Now it has grown into a large-scale reading activity jointly evaluated by more than 60 libraries and attended by more than 654.38 million readers, which has become an important witness to the vigorous development of reading activities for all.
Be the "Jin Liang" of culture
Farmers held up their dustpans, and the heavy grain slowly fell to the ground, and the impurities drifted away with the wind. This "Boyang Map" is the symbol of the Jinwen Book Award, which is taken from the "Plowing and Weaving Map" in the Southern Song Dynasty.
"Now our country publishes hundreds of thousands of new books every year, and some good books suitable for the public are often submerged in the Wang Yang of books." In Chen Li's view, it is the unshirkable responsibility of the library to recommend good books for readers.
Wang Yusheng, the former director of China Science and Technology Museum, who was the judge of the 10th Jinwen Book Award, recognized the orientation of this award: "Jinwen Book Award recommends popular books for the public, which can spread knowledge, cultivate sentiment and improve the public's humanities literacy. By commending excellent books, we can also create a good atmosphere that encourages authors to write good books, publishers to produce good books, and readers to read good books. "
"The Jinwen Book Award means' cultural bridge', which embodies the idea of striving to be a bridge to communicate culture, which coincides with our purpose of publishing academic popularization books." As a publisher, Li Jing, director of the Historical Editorial Department of Zhonghua Book Company, said that the purpose of publishing popular academic books is also to build a bridge between scholars and the public. "Zhonghua Book Company is an important town for the collation and academic publishing of ancient books, but it has never ignored the popularization of academics and the spread of culture. In our view, the ultimate goal of academic research is to benefit the public and spread culture, not to flatter yourself. "
"Looking for books for people, looking for people for books", Han, director of the book award organizing committee and director of the National Library, summed up the value of the book award with these eight words. "Awards are just a means, a guide. We hope that through the bridge of the Golden Book Award, we can truly fulfill the functions of library cultural communication and lifelong education for citizens and promote the development of reading activities for all. "