The library is a public welfare institution under the Cultural Tourism Bureau.

The responsibilities of the library mainly include the following aspects:

1. Collection and management of books and materials: The main responsibility of the library is to collect, preserve and manage all kinds of books, periodicals, newspapers, audio-visual materials, etc. Libraries need to constantly expand and update their collections according to users' needs and social development trends to ensure that readers can get the latest information in time.

2. Providing reading and lending services: The library should provide readers with comfortable reading environment and convenient lending services.

3. Carrying out consultation and information service for participating in politics: The library undertakes the teaching task of "literature retrieval course" and carries out consultation and information service for participating in politics.

4. Do a good job in clearing, eliminating, allocating and exchanging books and periodicals: the library should improve the catalogue system to ensure that the catalogue correctly reflects the collection. At the same time, do a good job in clearing, eliminating, allocating and exchanging books and periodicals, constantly improve the book collection system and improve the quality of books.

5. Strengthen the construction of library team: the library should train professional cadres, form a multi-level, multi-disciplinary and professional cadre team, and promote the growth of talents.

6. Research on the application of basic theories, technical methods and modern means of library science: Libraries should actively implement the Party's educational policy and make contributions to cultivating talents for socialist construction, developing educational science and culture, and building socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization.

To sum up, in most countries, libraries are usually regarded as cultural and educational institutions, and their main duties are to provide public library services, including borrowing books, providing learning and research resources, and organizing cultural activities. Therefore, libraries are often closely related to education departments or cultural departments, and are managed and supervised by them.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) Library Law and People's Republic of China (PRC)

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Public library is an important part of the socialist public cultural service system, and it should take propaganda, guidance and service for the whole people as an important task. Public libraries should adhere to the orientation of advanced socialist culture, people-centered and socialist core values-oriented, inherit and develop Chinese excellent traditional culture, inherit revolutionary culture and develop advanced socialist culture.