Anyone who has been scouring for books in the second-hand book market or the second-hand book network knows that it is nothing new for books to flow out of the library. The reason is more complicated. In the distance, some books were destroyed in a special period, which led to the flow of books to the society. More recently, it is not excluded that some books of state-owned enterprises, enterprises, institutions and public libraries flow to the second-hand book market due to poor management, unit restructuring or closure, book renewal and other reasons. These have historical reasons. But today, some public libraries have lost a large number of books and even many rare books because of poor lending and management, which is undoubtedly abnormal and should not be.
In addition to several books worth 10,000 yuan exposed on the second-hand book network, the WeChat account of Shanghai Oriental Broadcasting Co., Ltd. posted that some readers recently wanted to borrow Liu Bannong's "Talking about the Shadow of Half a Farmer" and found that this book published in 1927 was actually checked out by Yangpu District Library as ordinary materials, which was overdue for more than six years. Considering that these books have high market value in the book market, it is worth investigating whether this abnormal loss is caused by deliberate operation. According to the introduction, most of these books are borrowed from the service points outside the library in the form of collective borrowing, which belongs to the abnormal outflow from the service points outside the library. It is a good thing for libraries to set up off-site service points, but as this incident shows, if management does not follow up, it will easily lead to abnormal loss of books. This is not only the loss of public assets, but also the loss of the reputation and image of public libraries. In recent years, in order to promote reading, many public libraries have opened book circulation points outside the library. How to ensure the standardized management of books and reduce losses cannot be ignored.
It is not uncommon for books in Yangpu District Library in Shanghai to flow out abnormally. For example, on 20 15, it was reported by the media that Ms. Hu got close to 400 sets of ancient books from the library of a famous university in Beijing where she worked, mostly in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and most of them were extremely precious and well-preserved. 20 1 1, a whistleblower who claimed to be "the staff of the Forbidden City" said that some books were lost in the rare books stack of the Forbidden City Library. The relevant person in charge of the Palace Museum said that there are indeed more than 100 volumes of "doubtful" books that need detailed investigation, including some ordinary ancient books, as well as general thread-bound books and printed materials. These phenomena can be described as the epitome of the current poor management of public libraries.
In recent years, the pace of construction and opening of public libraries has been accelerated, and the management level of libraries has been further tested. On the one hand, books in some libraries are damaged or even lost. On the other hand, the information management of some libraries can't keep up, and the procedures for borrowing books are still complicated, which weakens the citizens' willingness to borrow. At the same time, it is precisely because of the lagging management level that the overall openness and willingness of public libraries still need to be improved.
In the increasingly prosperous era of electronic reading, in order to improve the management level and service quality of the library, we must overcome the misunderstanding and resistance of the two concepts. One is to ignore the professionalism of book management and the cultivation of related talents. In fact, library management is an independent discipline. Modern library system is composed of personnel, literature information, architecture, equipment, funds, technical methods and many other elements. The benign operation of the library must rely on the support of professionals and special investment. Second, more and more people choose electronic reading, which will make people mistakenly think that the library is no longer important, thus reducing the requirements for library management and service. In fact, in an era of fast-food information acquisition, the cultural attributes of libraries are more prominent, and the management level needs to be improved to meet the higher requirements of society.
The number and service quality of public libraries, museums and other cultural institutions are important indicators to measure the cultural service level and cultural atmosphere of a local public library.