In order to improve the basic public cultural services, under the unified arrangement of the Hunan Provincial Department of Culture and in line with the principle of serving readers wholeheartedly, Hunan Shaotu was opened free of charge on July 20th11.
At present, the library has a total of 63 staff members, including 8 senior professional and technical positions and 32 intermediate professional and technical positions. Hunan Shaotu is divided into editing department, comprehensive lending department, reference lending department, reader activity department, research counseling department, information network department and other business departments.
There are picture kingdom, comprehensive book lending room, literature book lending room, electronic reading room, popular science foreign language reading room, personalized manual workshop, preserved book reading room, newspaper lending room, audio-visual material lending room, reading room for the blind, educational reference room, audio-visual room, intellectual toy room and other reading rooms.
Hunan Children's Library has more than 800 reading seats and 60,000 certified readers.
According to children's characteristics, Shaotu often organizes young readers to carry out various reading activities, such as book review, works appreciation meeting, story meeting, report meeting, meeting with writers or scientists, various intelligence competitions, and holds various training courses on calligraphy, painting, computer and scientific parenting. In recent years, the "Picture Book Banquet" held by the library has a large number of participants, which is suitable for parents and children to participate together and has been widely praised.
To Shaotu, we provide services for children who are out of school, children who have slipped, children with mental retardation, disabled people, children in remote areas and children of migrant workers by sending books, sending activities home and borrowing books by mail. Make full use of books and periodicals to educate the vast number of children in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty, and cultivate them to become new people with ideals, morality, culture and discipline.