Preserve human cultural heritage.
The library has the task of preserving human documents, especially local documents, because it records the development and evolution of local human history from ancient times to the present. Generally speaking, the provision of delivering books to public libraries issued by relevant provincial government departments is called "delivery system". In other words, all government agencies, organizations or individuals, as long as they publish relevant documents, should donate several volumes to the public library as collections. In order to collect local documents comprehensively, we warmly welcome everyone to donate their local documents to the soon-to-be-established Hainan Provincial Library for permanent preservation.
Transfer scientific knowledge and information.
Knowledge and information are one of the elements on which the development of human society depends. The society has entered an era of information flooding and information blockade, which is called "information imbalance", and the library is a specialized institution to solve this imbalance. She collects and arranges scientific knowledge information according to certain rules, that is, the overall order of information, so that people can obtain it from the library according to their own needs. Many emerging enterprises entrust the functions of their information rooms to local public libraries, saving manpower, material resources and financial resources.
Implement social education.
Comrade Jiang Zemin's inscription "Public library is people's lifelong school" points out the profound connotation of public library's social function. Library is a symbol of social civilization and progress, an essential social and cultural infrastructure for building a harmonious socialist society, the main channel for publicizing the Party's theory, principles and policies, and an important place for social education for the broad masses.
Develop intellectual resources.
On the one hand, the books and materials collected by the library are a kind of intellectual resources accumulated by human beings for a long time, and the processing and processing of these resources by the library is the development of this intellectual resource. On the other hand, public libraries face the whole society and meet the needs of local industries at different levels, including not only entertaining popular books, but also high-tech professional theoretical works, and even patents and industry standards can be found. Therefore, the process of readers' continuous use of the library is also a process of constantly improving their intelligence and ability, so this is also the development of readers' intelligence.
Culture, entertainment and recreation. The cloister-like beautiful environment of the newly-built Hainan Provincial Library and its cultural park is also a good place for people to relax, and sometimes they can watch free open-air movies shown in the library to cool off the heat. In the process of providing social, cultural and entertainment services, libraries have cultivated people's sentiments, improved people's cultural level and promoted social progress.