南京市2012届高三5月英语热身训练(2)任务型阅读

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Social function of public libraries in rural areas

Public libraries are various, such as Popular Library, Community Library, Municipal Library, Parish library and Model Public Library.

The public libraries in underdeveloped countries are marginalized and without any leading role in society. To develop “social function of the public library as an agent of change for rural development, we need to know more about the public library.

The public library is the institution that serves a social function as a change agent in transmitting information and knowledge to the rural development without distinction of religion, race, political beliefs, or gender or sex. “It’s an education for the people.”

The social roles of the public library includes:

·developing an additional training courses to the rural school, trying to raise the socioeconomic status, intellectual and moral development of rural populations. Through the different activities taking place: Training courses, productive workshops, lectures on various topics, holiday supplies, etc;

·serving many people who had to leave school early (very typical of rural areas) by providing adequate equipment and personnel to their information needs;

·facilitating and encouraging reading in rural areas, acting as an effective tool against illiteracy, which in Peru and Latin America is one of the socio-educational problems that we suffer; ·helping users disoriented and not accustomed to consult the rural library, encouraging, motivating and attracting them to obtain maximum benefit and satisfaction of their readings ·acting as an “Information Center for all”, but not a “Deposit and audiovisual library materials; for use by all members of the Community, particularly in rural areas. What is interesting in learning, increasing their knowledge and culture, strengthening their appreciation of life and achieve their ideals.

The social roles of the public library will depend much on their structure: Child, Youth, Adult, Senior, and its system of organization: Central and branch offices, mobile libraries, book bags, methods widely used in rural areas of many countries. The public library is a state institution, and therefore promoted and sustained by it. It plays the role of the public service. It should not be an inert entity, as has happened in most developing countries. Within a context of underdevelopment, public library remains as an institution isolated from the interests of the population, despite all efforts are made individually to avoid it. The public library and the rural development should be closely related, with the support of an appropriate education policy.