Yangquan Library was founded in 1963 and moved to its present address in 1987. The building is in the shape of "Trinity", which is quiet and quiet on one side of the main road, showing that the design and layout are reasonable. The total area of this building is 2000 square meters. The building covers an area of 4,000 square meters, and the total collection of various books reaches more than 300,000 copies. As the cultural information center of the whole city, the prefecture-level and city-level third-level libraries evaluated by the Ministry of Culture have devoted themselves to standardization, standardization and modernization in recent years, providing a steady stream of spiritual motivation and intellectual support for the development of urban economy, culture and various social undertakings, and playing an important functional role.
With the progress and prosperity of urban modernization and cultural undertakings, Yangquan Library attaches great importance to and strives to strengthen basic business construction. The collection, management, selection, indexing and cataloging of documents in the library are in accordance with the current general rules and methods, standardized standards, unified identification, accurate classification, orderly display, and the average error rate of processing and sorting quality is controlled within 2%. The document management and protection system is sound, the facilities are complete, the measures are in place, and the responsibility lies with people, actively creating more powerful conditions for optimizing reader service.
In recent years, Yangquan Library has made great efforts to overcome such unfavorable factors as serious shortage of funds, lagging hardware and incomplete diversified functions. Starting from its own reality, this paper has formulated a set of working ideas and methods of goal quantification, responsibility refinement and phased development, which are consistent from top to bottom and strive to adapt to the development trend of modern libraries, and have achieved gratifying results.
200 1, realize circulation automation, and adopt TLAS system automation management and office automation system; An electronic reading room has been opened, and the external interface of the network has reached 100 megabytes. With the enthusiastic help and strong support of provincial and municipal leaders, the Yangquan Sub-center of the national cultural information resource sharing project was launched in 2003, which provided a convenient way for the general public to use network resources.
The annual borrowing volume of Yangquan Library is 6.5438+0.4 million, and the annual flow is 6.5438+0.8 million. It is an important cultural window of this city. The general reading room with an area of 400 square meters is spacious, elegant and comfortable. Including science and technology, ancient books, special collections, electronics, multimedia, children and other special services, there are currently 229 reading seats.
Children's reading room is a new service window opened in 2003. In order to facilitate children to borrow books, the opening hours should be adapted to children's spare time, books should be informative and interesting, and children's various needs should be taken into account. At the same time, it has given various conveniences in handling certificates and opening shelves, paying attention to the education of minors and paying attention to healthy and upward guidance. The responsibilities and obligations undertaken by the library are irreplaceable, and children can really enjoy fresh air and bright sunshine.
Radiating communities and rural areas is a new service field that Yangquan Library has been expanding in recent years. At present, eight community service points such as Xinhua East Street, Taiwan Business Street, Fangguan Street, Yijing and Nanbianyan have been established, and two rural sub-centers in Suohuang Town and Mashan, Pingding County have been established to help villages, communities and streets set up 13 libraries, and go deep into the grassroots to carry out business counseling and training all the year round and send books into the community. In the fight against SARS and avian influenza, we compiled and printed relevant materials, integrated the special issue of Spark scientific and technological information, and distributed more than 15000 copies to the masses.
Organize reader service activities such as lectures, reports and academic seminars in a planned and step-by-step manner in combination with the central work and social hotspots in various periods; There are 65,438+024 members of the Library Society of the whole city. In the past five years, members have published more than 40 academic papers such as "Interlibrary Replication and Exchange" and "Reflections on the Service Model of County Libraries" in professional journals and conferences at or above the provincial level.
In 2003, Yangquan Library carried out institutional integration and personnel system reform, made quantitative assessment of business work, set up posts as needed from management to business level, and established an incentive mechanism focusing on performance and contribution, which effectively promoted the innovative development of library work. It has been awarded the honorary titles of "advanced collective of cultural work" and "advanced collective of popular science work" by the Municipal Bureau of Cultural Press and Publication and the Municipal Association for Science and Technology. In the process of modernization, diversification and multi-function, Yangquan Library will enhance its service awareness, improve its service quality, and actively explore the establishment of a document information resource system and a new operating service model, which will certainly extend a cultural oasis full of opportunities for Yangquan, a mountain city, open more knowledge portals and shed endless sources of wisdom.