According to the needs of public libraries, public libraries should be open to the public free of charge in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state. If they close or change their opening hours for some reason, they should announce in advance unless they encounter force majeure.

The Measures stipulate that the opening hours of public libraries should be implemented in accordance with the requirements of the national public library service standards. Public libraries should be open on public holidays and have opening hours on national statutory holidays. This is also to better serve readers and add interest to people's leisure and entertainment activities.

There should be, which means that the opening hours can be appropriately adjusted according to the actual situation of the library, and the scope and area of opening can also be appropriately adjusted. Take National Day and Spring Festival for example: there are three legal holidays, plus seven days off. Public libraries cannot be closed for seven days, but the opening hours and areas can be adjusted according to the actual number of library staff.

The significance of library

A library is an institution that collects, sorts out and collects books and materials for people to read and refer to. As early as 3000 BC, libraries had the functions of preserving human cultural heritage, developing information resources and participating in social education.

Library is the external storage and selective transmission mechanism of social memory (usually written information); In other words, the library is the memory device and dissemination device of social knowledge, information and culture; Libraries originated from the habit of keeping records. The library is a special place for readers to use library documents. Library reading rooms are generally divided into general reading rooms, special reading rooms and reference laboratories.

The professional work of the library consists of many interrelated work links, including four parts: general literature collection, collation, collection and service.

Literature collection is the foundation of the whole library work. Librarians should first make clear the collection principles, collection scope, collection focus and selection criteria of our library, and understand the collection situation, literature types and copies, utilization rate and service life of various books, which books can be eliminated (see collection elimination) and which books need to be reported.