Shuxiang Guancheng, warm travel together! Volunteer curators bring the joy of reading to more families

On January 4th, the 4th Guancheng Community Library Volunteer Director Team Meeting was held in Guancheng Library. More than 60 volunteers attended the meeting. At the

event, a simple but grand new teammate meeting ceremony was held to commend outstanding volunteers and issue letters of appointment to the captain, volunteer curator and volunteer team leader for the next year. At the same time, a variety of spring festival activities were also held on site. During the whole event, warmth flowed, applause and laughter continued. Volunteers lamented that the Guancheng Library is a warm library and a library that can accompany readers for a lifetime.

Guancheng Community Library Volunteer Curator Project (hereinafter referred to as "Volunteer Curator") was established on July 4, 2015. It is a reading promotion jointly created by Guancheng Cultural Service Center, Guancheng Library and various communities in Guancheng. Cultural Volunteer Project.

Because of the friendship in Guancheng, because of the warmth of persistence

In this meeting, more than 10 representatives of newcomers participated, including preschool education workers, staff of public institutions, and full-time mothers. They have different reasons for joining this team. Some of them became friends because they liked Guancheng, and because of the strong cultural atmosphere of Guancheng, they found a feeling of home; The identity of the public welfare storyteller remains in Guancheng.

"Because I took my children to participate in the parent-child story meeting in Doll's House Story House, I feel that this team is very caring, full of vitality and positive energy." "I have participated in the growth training of the volunteer curator project before, and I feel that the team of volunteer curators It’s too late to see each other, and I like this team very much.” Volunteers said that they expect readers to share the beauty of reading with the team, and to use their own strengths to continue to bring the fun of reading to more families and let more people enjoy reading. The soul goes from barren to full.

"Volunteer service for more than three years, more than 600 hours"

At the meeting, everyone enjoyed the team development video and invited volunteer representatives to speak.

"I joined the team of volunteer curators for more than three years, and I volunteered for more than 600 hours, which is equivalent to working full-time in the Guancheng Library for more than 3 months. From the first session to more than 30 sessions, I have gradually become a The 'mother of the curator' in the eyes of the children in the community." Xu Hong, the volunteer curator of Xingtang Community Library, said that every seemingly simple activity has condensed the hard work and wisdom of the team. When you see the smiling faces of the children, you will feel that everything is worth it. Feng Jingguang, the volunteer leader of the

book club, has been sticking to it for almost 5 years since the first volunteer curator team. He said that the goal in the future is to continuously train new readers and improve the quality of reading, so as to influence more people to enrich their lives through reading, and strive to live an extraordinary attitude in an ordinary world. The home of the volunteer leader of the

small book club lives far away, and it often takes more than two hours to go back and forth. Talking about the reasons for joining the small book club, Zhu Mengjin said that as a high school Chinese teacher, she found that the children's reading background was too poor and they did not have the ability to read deeply.

​​"People tend to pursue reading or ways to improve academic performance, but neglect the accumulation of reading. If there is not enough volume, no amount of methods will be zero. I hope that by joining the team, children can read more books." Zhu Mengjin introduced , The first reading club for elementary school students was organized two years ago. Only 5 children participated, and only one of them was able to have a collision with himself at the ideological level, and the other children could not tell their own reading thinking.

"I am very glad that the small book club has developed greatly this year. It is divided into two parts: poetry reading and children's literature, and seven series of reading clubs. The number of children participating in each session is increasing, and they will also share reading The books are very impressive, and they have their own reading thinking.” She believes that this is the result of promoting reading, and hopes to combine reading and writing in 2020, and get more volunteer support.

Recognition of the advanced, moving forward with dreams

After the warm sharing, the scene also gave simple and grand commendations to the 2019 outstanding storytellers, readers, excellent volunteer curators, group leaders, and the most beautiful reading promoters. A letter of appointment will be issued to the captain, volunteer curator and volunteer team leader for the next year. On the

site, Chen Haorong, deputy director of the Guancheng Sub-district Office, also exchanged his thoughts with the volunteers.

"Thank you all for paying so much treasureExpensive time to be a volunteer, this kind of volunteer service is really a very great thing. It can not only help others, but also improve oneself; at the same time, together with various cultural volunteer teams in Guancheng, it provides another possibility for the public to participate in social construction and provides more ways for ordinary people to participate in culture. "Chen Haorong said that this kind of volunteer meeting is very atmospheric, and the various reading clubs and other voluntary reading promotion activities carried out are professional and comprehensive. "Spring Festival" activity. Wang Baiquan, director of Guancheng Library, wrote Spring Festival couplets and sent blessings for everyone. Volunteers also joined in writing Spring Festival couplets, painting red plums, cutting window grilles, and making classical headdresses. Everyone's face was full of joy. With a happy smile.

It is understood that the "Volunteer Librarian" project takes the community library as the main position, based on the three fulcrums of love, reading, and growth, and introduces third-party volunteers to activate the community library and meet the growing needs of citizens. Starting from the reading needs, plan a variety of reading promotion activities, and constantly improve the public library service from the feedback of the activities. Since the establishment of

in 2015, about 168 volunteers have participated in this project, and a total of More than 500 reading promotion activities such as friendship clubs, more than 60 team building training activities such as storytelling workshops, and more than 25,000 people directly participated in the activities, covering all communities in Guancheng, libraries in enterprise parks, and social welfare centers in Dongguan. The cultural newspaper and other media inside and outside the city reported more than 200 times, and trained a batch of public reading promoters to truly make citizens participate in the construction of public culture.

[trainee reporter] Huang Haobo

[author] Huang Haobo

[source] Southern News Media Group South + client