Comparative Study On Public Library Minor Services Of China And The United States

The public library minor service refers to that the public library provides children and teens with various service activities. Public library as a public service organization, it’s one of the important social knowledge and information preservation and delivery place with the function of educating social public. Minors as the main force of the country, in their process of growth public library should play an important role, when he’s a child, let him become the loyal reader and then becoming a lifelong user of library. Our public library minor service started late, the American public library minor service pattern has relatively matured. In many respects our public library minor service draw lessons from the experience and practice of the United States. The public library in the American consciousness is the place of lifelong learning, occupies a special position in American culture, and it has been integrated into the life of Americans. Public libraries in the United States are free public spaces throughout each community, many of them set up a children area to provide professional services for children, children after school if their parents hasn’t come back, go to the library is a good choice. In many people’s consciousness of our country library is still a place of borrowing and returning books, although the libraries also carried out other activities, but the effect remains to be improved, and the status of public library of China is far from U.S. public library high position in the public mind. Due to the impact of the social environment and the long-established habits, weak awareness of the public library, the public library minor service is a mere formality, the ability of public library minor service is also uneven, although the library would like to try its best to change this situation, but apparently its own power is difficult to achieve, requires multilateral cooperation together. The paper by comparing the minor services of the public libraries tries to find out the problem of our public library minor service and gives the strategy of solving the problem.The first part introduction, introduces the research background, research purpose and significance, public library minor service reviews, research content and method, innovations of the paper. The second part, public library minor service overview mainly defines some concepts related to this article.The third section, focuses on the five elements of the American public library services to minors:specialized collections, dedicated space, professionals, specialized services and cooperative network. And our country public library minor service elements taking Hefei Children’s Library for example, include library resources, library construction, the service staff, cooperation and mutual assistance. On a comparative analysis of both our public library minor service basic element rudiment has been formed, but the development is not balanced, showing an overall "south strong north weak, east fast west slow" situation.The fourth section, separately describes several typical contents and methods of public library services to minors, most of the services is both have may have different name, but the breadth, depth, size, effectiveness of the service content and activities our country still needs to improve.The fifth section, separately summarizes the public library minor services of China and the United States of laws, regulation and policy, the United States about the library legal system is completed, but our country doesn’t even have the basic law of library, the contrast has analyzed our country need to strengthen the construction of public library minor services law.The last part, describes the implications of the American public library minor services on our public library minor services, from three aspects, service conditions, service content and the system of laws and regulations. Public library in our country needs to make efforts to improve the service to minors, and make the public library have an effect on the life of minors.