On the occasion of the 29th “World Book Day”, Pudong Library held the “Library Rediscovery” 2024 Pudong Reading Festival opening ceremony on April 23. The activity is composed of four chapters: “Reading Opens Things·Xining Space”, “Reading Light·Heart Power”, “Digital Empowerment·Core Set sail” and “Reading Road·New Future”.
Taking the most mundane daily work as creative inspiration, the four carefully arranged short plays will meet every friend who loves reading. Stories such as helping people with disabilities read, and the Book Bus extending the last mile of reading are either touching or inspiring, and resonate that reading is a spirit, a strength, a responsibility, and a mission. Using books as a boat and reading as a boat will influence more people to participate in reading and fall in love with reading, and let more people see the power of reading on this beautiful spring day.
A child-friendly society reflects the warmth of the city and the degree of civilization in social development. “Creating 100 new child-friendly urban reading spaces” is one of Shanghai’s practical projects for the people in 2024. Pudong New Area plans to complete the construction of new child-friendly urban reading spaces in 18 streets and towns in 2024, and strive to build 36 new urban reading spaces in 2025. Full coverage of the town. At the opening ceremony, the first batch of new child-friendly urban reading spaces in Pudong New Area in the first quarter were awarded licenses in Nanquan Road Street, Kangqiao Town, Zhoupu Town and Nicheng Town. At the same time, in order to empower a new reading space in a child-friendly city, Pudong Library also sorted out district-level activity resources immediately and carried out about 30 various reading promotion activities. The number of participants in the reading promotion activities exceeded 1,000, and the cumulative number of service visits exceeded 1.5 Thousands of people. Continuously strengthen the allocation of children’s literature resources, enrich children’s reading promotion activities, create the “first stop for aesthetic education” for children, and effectively improve the level of children’s reading services in grassroots public spaces, thereby improving the construction of the city’s children’s reading service system.
On Reading Day, Pudong Library’s digital human “Pu Pu” will be officially released. “Pu Pu”, who officially meets readers as a little book boy (doctor), is not only a virtual “reading spokesperson”, but also a “library smart assistant”. By connecting to the Putu Smart Library Service Platform, it will gradually be able to provide readers with online functions such as resource links, collection recommendations, consultation responses, and active push, helping readers quickly obtain service support at various terminals of Putu. The combination of “digital people” and libraries is a new attempt by Pudong Library to explore the intelligent transformation of services. This project has introduced in-depth cooperation with Ant Group. In addition to the digital person “Pu Pu”, the “Pudong Digital Reading” Alipay applet has also been launched simultaneously. AOI positioning push is enabled on this digital platform, and reader behaviors such as online borrowing are connected to Ant. forest, and advocate “low-carbon reading”. Through cross-border attempts to create more diverse application linkages, we can expand a richer and smoother reading experience for readers.
In Pudong’s journey to build a leading area for socialist modernization, reading spaces continue to rise, reading activities are rich and colorful, and reading public welfare continues to warm up. The “quality” and “quantity” of the construction of scholarly Pudong have both improved, becoming the best resources for the people. vivid practice. In the process of building “Bookish Pudong”, a large number of vivid stories of reading, loving books, writing books, and spreading books emerged. On that day, the third selection of the most beautiful bookish people was officially launched, the upgraded version of the Bookish Bus script game book, and the tea culture that the masses loved to hear and see The exhibition opens in the atrium. The 2024 Pudong Reading Festival will also target all age groups and carry out more than 200 reading promotion activities with distinctive themes, diverse contents and various forms in 36 streets and towns in Pudong, continuing to create a “big reading” circle of friends and continue to cultivate “bookish Pudong” “Ecology.
