China News Service, Beijing, October 3 (Reporter Ying Ni) The National Library's "Children's Reading in Four Seasons, Bookish Campus Tour" special campaign was officially launched in Beijing. This is another children's reading promotion initiative launched by the National Library for schools after the implementation of the "Regulations on the Promotion of National Reading", marking the systematic extension of "Children's Reading in Four Seasons" from the public library system to campus scenes.
"Children's Reading in Four Seasons" is a reading promotion project launched by the National Library in 2023 for minors across the country. It unites the library industry, education industry, publishing industry and other parties to recommend the latest published high-quality children's books as the starting point. Since its launch, it has completed 15 quarterly children's book recommendations, and a total of 395 high-quality children's books have been recommended. Focusing on these books, we have carried out activities such as the "Sunshine Reading Tour" to care for children with special needs, the "Warm Reading Tour" to promote equalization of cultural resources, the "Bookish Family Tradition Action" focusing on parent-child family tradition education, and the "Travel with Children's Books" to promote the integration of reading and culture, and continue to provide high-quality reading content for children.
As a new special campaign of "Four Seasons Children's Reading" for schools, the "School Tour" uses the recommended books in the "Four Seasons Children's Reading" catalog for primary and secondary school and junior high school as the core reading resources. It is overall planned by the National Library, and jointly organized and implemented by the Children's Library of the National Library in conjunction with many public libraries and primary and secondary schools in Beijing, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Guangxi and other places to explore a replicable "library + campus" collaborative service model.
Compared with regular campus reading activities, "Bookish Campus Tour" emphasizes "resource access, service implementation, and mechanism formation." The project implementation adopts a combination of online and offline methods: offline reading corners are set up through cooperation, and recommended books are concentrated in the school library or public areas of teaching buildings; combined with local library resources and historical and cultural characteristics, an "experts come to campus" event is organized, inviting children's writers, senior children's book editors, and reading promoters to the campus; students' reading growth files are established to record reading titles, reading time, reading progress and reading insights; library-school co-construction themed reading tours and library study activities are carried out. Online activities such as "Campus Reading" and "Little Book Recommender" are organized to encourage students to share their reading experience through audio and video, paintings, reflections, and picture book production.
During the implementation of the project, students’ reading works, book recommendation videos, reading experiences, as well as graphic, text and video materials formed by themed reading courses, experts’ visits to campus, research activities, etc. will be an important part of the project results. Relying on the National Library of China’s multiple new media platforms, excellent content will be continuously pushed out, and various localities will be encouraged to use local media resources to expand dissemination and accumulate experience for the optimization and promotion of subsequent projects.
