Starting from the basic connotation of the public cultural service system, this paper analyzes the importance and social responsibility of the public library in the public cultural service system, and probes into some measures for improving the public cultural service of the library.
Keywords: * * Public library * * Functions of public cultural service system
The construction of public cultural service system is a new concept put forward under the background that the government strengthens the public service function. General Secretary Hu Jintao pointed out in the report of the 17th National Congress that in order to achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way and improve the civilization quality of the whole nation, we must vigorously strengthen the construction of socialist cultural undertakings, basically establish a public cultural service system covering the whole society, deepen the reform of the cultural system, and improve the policy environment that supports public cultural undertakings and encourages cultural innovation. Therefore, strengthening the construction of public cultural service system is an inevitable requirement for the prosperity and development of advanced socialist culture and the construction of a harmonious socialist society. It is also the main way to realize, safeguard and develop people's basic cultural rights and interests, which is of great significance for promoting people's all-round development and improving the ideological and moral, scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation. Then, as a public cultural infrastructure and public cultural service institution, what is the role of public libraries in building a public cultural service system? How to play its role? Serving the public, these are several issues to be discussed in this paper.
First, the connotation of public cultural service system
Public cultural service system is an important part of modern government public service system. It is led by the government, supplemented by social capital such as social participation and public finance, supplemented by cultural institutions and social organizations such as public cultural institutions, which provide universal cultural knowledge, spread advanced culture, provide spiritual products, meet people's cultural needs and protect people. Improve the public cultural service system, including public cultural policies and regulations system, public cultural infrastructure system, public cultural production and supply system, public cultural funds guarantee system, public cultural talents guarantee system and public cultural service evaluation and supervision system. The public cultural service system has five basic functions: fairness, convenience, diversity, public welfare and the basic nature of public cultural services. In China, government cultural administrative departments, cultural institutions, non-governmental organizations and enterprises constitute the main body of public cultural services. Among them, the cultural administrative department of the government is the core subject of public cultural services, and is responsible for organizing and supervising public cultural services and products. As a cultural institution, public libraries are still the backbone of public cultural services.
Second, the role of public libraries in the public cultural service system
1. Preserving human cultural heritage documents is an important carrier for preserving human cultural heritage. Among all kinds of social institutions, only the library, as an intermediary, bears the heavy responsibility of preserving human cultural classics. Although, with the development of the times, the forms of document preservation objects range from the original tortoise shell and animal bones, papyrus clay tablets, to modern printed books, and now to disks, CDs, films and so on. As long as it is the cultural heritage left by human society, it can be the object of library preservation. Therefore, from ancient books to modern digital information, rich and diverse library resources have become an indispensable resource support for advanced cultural theory research, cultural knowledge transmission, excellent cultural inheritance and cultural entertainment development.
2. Transmitting scientific information is an important function of modern library. As the collection center of social literature information, the library stores a large amount of social literature information. By providing various services to the public, the library can widely disseminate the stored knowledge and information, and through the full and effective use of the public, it can be transformed into scientific and technological and cultural achievements and materialized into direct productive forces, thus playing an increasingly important role in prospering advanced socialist culture and promoting social development and progress.
3. As an important cultural and scientific educational institution to carry out social education, the library is an important base for public lifelong learning and education. This kind of education is a social activity that transmits cultural and scientific knowledge through public reading, and allows the public to use the library to learn and update their knowledge independently, which is unmatched by any school education. With the development of the times, science and technology are changing with each passing day, and knowledge is aging rapidly, this educational function of the library will be more obvious. The library provides readers with the latest knowledge and information, so that they can update their knowledge and meet the needs of the information society, thus promoting the all-round development of people and improving the ideological and moral, scientific and cultural literacy of the whole nation. Only libraries can afford such a wide range of national education and universal education.
4. Providing cultural and recreational activities as a public cultural space for public cultural services, public libraries can make good use of the stored social literature information resources and provide rich spiritual and cultural products for the public, so that they can broaden their cultural horizons and enjoy learning knowledge. We can also provide cultural exhibitions, academic conferences, large-scale exhibitions, reports and knowledge lectures to the public through a variety of public cultural activities to meet the growing diversified cultural needs of the public. By providing reading resources and environment for the public, the library has become an important place to spread and enliven the public's cultural life and one of the centers of social and cultural life. The classified query of periodical articles is in the periodical library. Thirdly, the countermeasures for public libraries to construct public cultural service system.
1. Seize the opportunity to promote the development of library cause. In the new requirements of building a well-off society in an all-round way, the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is necessary to increase government investment, use public finance to ensure public cultural services, and basically establish a public cultural service system covering the whole society by 2020. When discussing the strategy of cultural development, it is emphasized that the public interest of culture should be adhered to, so that people's basic cultural rights and interests can be better guaranteed, which points out the direction for the cause of public libraries and brings development space for public libraries. Therefore, under the background of perfecting the public finance system and establishing a public cultural service system covering the whole society, public libraries should seize the opportunity and actively participate in the construction of the public cultural service system. On the one hand, we should actively organize librarians to study the report of the 17th National Congress, deeply understand the great significance of accelerating the construction of public cultural service system, and clarify their social responsibilities and tasks. On the other hand, we should vigorously publicize the social role of public libraries and enhance the public's sense of identity and closeness to libraries. Enhance the understanding of libraries by governments at all levels, strive for strong financial support from the public, improve the conditions for running libraries, improve service facilities, and enhance the service level and ability of public culture, so that more people can enjoy the sunshine of public cultural services under the protection of the public library system.
2. Raise awareness and innovate service concept. Scientific Outlook on Development emphasized people-oriented, promoted the all-round, coordinated and sustainable development of individuals under the environment of economic socialization, and regarded paying attention to social equity as an important feature of building a harmonious society. This requires the public library system to carry out people-oriented consciousness and advocate humanistic care while ensuring fairness, and its essence is to advocate free, equal, open and free library spirit and service in an all-round way. Therefore, public libraries must innovate the service concept. First, establish the service concept of humanistic care, meet the requirements of humanization in hardware facilities, and provide readers with a spacious borrowing environment; In the software environment, we should create a good atmosphere of respecting and understanding readers. In book purchasing, book classification and cataloging, library system and so on. We should take readers as the center, adjust unreasonable opening hours and cumbersome borrowing system, remove restrictions on readers' age and access to public libraries, and ensure and realize the public's demand for knowledge and information. The second is to establish the service concept of "combining Tibet with use, focusing on use". In the management of documents and materials, traditional libraries attach importance to collection rather than use, and the number of books is an important standard to measure a library. In the information society, no matter whether the collection information resources are in paper form or electronic form, only when they are fully utilized by readers can the social benefits of the library be better brought into play, and the more times they are used, the greater the benefits will be. Therefore, while exercising the collection function, libraries should pay more attention to the circulation function to meet the public's demand for diversified cultural services in the information age.
3. Improve services and guarantee citizens' cultural rights. The goal of cultural service is to realize the basic cultural rights of every citizen. As a basic human right, cultural rights are also the most basic rights of the people. It is the unshirkable social responsibility of public libraries to provide various forms of public cultural services, safeguard and realize the public's cultural rights and interests, and meet the basic cultural needs of the public. (1) Innovative library service mode. To build a public cultural service system with reasonable structure, balanced development, sound network, efficient operation and high quality service covering the whole society, we must be based on innovation, adhere to people-oriented and improve the service system of public libraries. The first is to build a "one card" operating system for borrowing and returning books. Through the realization of online retrieval, joint cataloging and interlibrary loan, the "one card" service outlets are all over urban and rural areas, creating conditions for public libraries to provide universal and equal services to the society. The second is to integrate joint ventures and build a network information service system. For example, the cultural information resources sharing project jointly implemented by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance has established a three-level public library service network with provincial libraries as the center, district (county, city) libraries as sub-centers, and community and township (village) service points as the support. Through modern scientific and technological means, the cultural information resources will be digitally processed and integrated, and the excellent cultural information resources of the Chinese nation will be delivered to grassroots service outlets, so that the public can enjoy the fruits of public cultural services nearby and conveniently. (2) Free service of public libraries. Free service is the value orientation of library's public responsibility, and it is also the value appeal of the public to library's responsibility. According to the Declaration of Public Libraries issued by UNESCO and IFLA, public libraries should be free and accessible, and public libraries should provide services to everyone free of charge, regardless of age, race, sex, religion, nationality, language or social status. Based on this concept, public libraries should be open to the public free of charge, and this kind of free should also be all-round. In China, due to the limitation of objective conditions, most public libraries have not provided free services, but in some economically developed areas of China, public libraries have gradually implemented free services for readers. Although it is a long way to go to fully implement the free service of public libraries, we have reason to believe that with the strengthening of China's economic strength, the government's financial investment in public libraries will increase, and it will become a reality for public libraries to realize completely free public cultural services. This is the requirement of library professional self-discipline and the social responsibility that librarians should fulfill. (3) Establish knowledge assistance services for the disadvantaged groups. Democratic politics advocates social justice and equality, and advocates caring for and helping the disadvantaged groups. The Declaration on Freedom of Library and Knowledge issued by IFLA in 1999 claims that everyone has the freedom to understand, express, disseminate and create knowledge, and ensuring these rights has become the core responsibility of libraries and information institutions. As a public service organization, the public library provides knowledge assistance for the disadvantaged groups, which is the concrete embodiment of the humanistic spirit of the library. On the one hand, it is necessary to create a good environment for caring for the vulnerable groups, remove obstacles for the vulnerable groups to obtain information, open up service channels, enrich service content, and ensure and realize the basic cultural needs of low-income urban residents, migrant workers and the disabled. On the other hand, by improving the survival skills of vulnerable groups and developing autonomous learning, they can get rid of difficulties and have the ability to participate in social life, thus realizing their all-round development. References:
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