Research on the “City’s Study” of Urban Library Service Mode in China

Abstract

Under the background of urbanization and networkingalong with the trend of digital reading, the urban library service model needs to be transformedand the service function needs to be enriched.“City’s Study” refers to the city’s 24-hour self-service entity reading space jointly created by the urban libraries and partners. It is a new type of service mode for urban libraries in China. The emergence of the “City’s Study” has greatly reduced the service radius of public libraries. Yangzhou City in Jiangsu Province has been building the “City’s Study” since 2015. Yangzhou City has built 20 “City’s Study” till now and achieved good results. It is an advantageous demonstration of the transformation of urban library service models in China and has certain research value. This article uses literature research, field investigations, field interviews and other methods to conduct an in-depth investigation of the Yangzhou “City’s Study”. The “City’s Study” in Yangzhou is taken as an example to introduce the construction situation, service effectiveness and existing problems of the “City’s study”. Finally, combined with the development trend of libraries and the concrete practice of Yangzhou “City’s Study”, the future development tendency of “City’s Study” service is summarized.Credit services and WeChat services should be popularized in the “City’s Study” service which should be developed in the direction of intelligence, convenience and diversification.