(1) Preserve human cultural heritage.
The appearance of book corner is the need to preserve human cultural heritage. With the establishment of the book corner, the experience, culture and intellectuals gained from human social practice can be systematically preserved and passed on, and become valuable cultural heritage and spiritual wealth of today's mankind. .
(2) carry out social education.
In modern times, the emergence of large-scale capitalist industries requires workers to have more labor knowledge and skills, so that the book corner can truly enter the common people and shoulder the task of educating workers in scientific knowledge and culture. In modern society, the book corner has become the base of continuing education and lifelong education, and has assumed more educational functions.
(3) transmitting scientific information.
Transmitting scientific information is an important function of modern book corner. The rich, systematic and comprehensive book information materials in the book corner have become the material conditions for the book corner to engage in scientific information transmission. In the information society, the scientific information function of the book corner will be strengthened.
(4) Developing intellectual resources.
The books and materials collected by the book corner are a kind of intellectual resources accumulated by human beings for a long time, and the processing of these resources by the book corner is the development of this intellectual resource. At the same time, the book corner provides these books and materials for use, which is to develop the brain resources of users of the book corner. In other words, the book corner undertakes the function of cultivating talents.
In addition, the book corner, as a cultural and educational institution, provides people with a fifth function in today's increasingly improved living standards:
(5) provide cultural entertainment.
The service provided by the book corner meets the social demand for culture and entertainment, enriches and enlivens people's cultural life, and plays an indelible role in the construction of spiritual civilization.