Research On The Service Extention System Of Public Libraries To Communities

The development of Community Public Culture Service system is accelerated by the advancement in National Cultural Development Plan and the Information Sharing Program. However, the lack of funds, the absence of professional technology and the disordered management are still the obstacle for the development of community public culture. Contemporarily, the international environment of knowledge economization and information network requires public libraries to broaden and deepen their services, increase the utilization of their collections, and satisfy the cultural information reqests of common civilians. With the advantage in resources and specilty, public libraries extending their services to communities, can both boom the basic level culture development and broaden the function of public libraries.With an eye to the system construction, management methods and service policy of the service extention of public libraries to communities, the development framework of public library service system is constructed and perfected. In the first part, the origin and evolution of the service extention of public libraries to communities are summarized and discussed. In the second part, a case study is carred out on the "One-Card-Pass" service network in Hangzhou, the current status, effects and influences of public library service nodes in communities in Hangzhou are analyzed, and the current status of the service extention system of public libraries to communities is analyzed on the microcosmic level. Through massive literature review, the third part summarized the model characteristics of service extension systems of public libraries to community in China and foreign countries, and their differences in construction bodies, legislation, management units, information network, supervision, extending service and social contribution are analyzed. On the basis of the prior research, the fourth part explores the development framework and service policy of Chinese public libraries' community-extension system by system insurance and function development. The following aspects--changes in service conception, enhancement in service function, extension in service network, enrichment in service contents, innovation in service methods, expansion in service domain--are emphasized. The service extention system of public libraries to communities in China is not mature, needs to use foreign experiences as reference, and generalize successful domestic practices. Using qualitative and quantitative research methods, this thesis puts forward the countermeasures and advices in the system construction, management performance and service policy of service extention from theoretical and practical angles, which provides some help and reference for the sustainable development of service extention system to communities of public libraries in China.