The Comparative Study Of Children’s Services In Public Library Between China And United Kingdom

Children are the hope and future of one nationality. The growing and development of children have a significant effect on the progress and development of human. To this end, library service to children plays an important role in the public library. According to the Right of child, public library should provide the equality service for all of children, as well as enough library distribution, facilities, library resource and staff for the children. This could make the children obtain a better library service.However, few researches focused on children service of public library in China. Though a series of Children’s library, such as Capital children’s library and Shenzhen children’s library, have a good development, there still remains a gap between our country and the developed country. Therefore, a series of problems should be settled in future. For examples, an unbalance development of library service to children is existed in China owing to the vast land, especially the regional difference and urban-rural difference. There is a sharp shortage of public library due to too much children in our country, which is beyond the standard of library service to children. Furthermore, there is still much space for the development of relative law and policy of public library child’s service. Additionally, some problems have been presented in the library service, such as the library facilities, library resource, staff for the children, professional quality, service manner and details.On the other hand, the library service to child in United Kingdom(UK) have been attracted much attentions in early stage. UK is one of the countries with best public library in the world. With this in mind, the thesis investigated the difference between China and UK via comparing the development of library service to child of both countries. Then, we adopt the merits of library serve for child in UK and further propose some strategies to improve the public library child’s service in our country.The thesis is composed of five parts. Firstly, we introduced the background of this project, development, research approach and method, as well as the highlight. Secondly, an analysis of child’s characteristics and the mission of library child service are elucidated. A comparison of facility for child service, library resource and staff between China and UK are descried in the third part。Then, the service project, promotion of service and service effect between China and UK are compared, shown in forth part. Finally, we propose the suggestions for improving the library service to child in China.