Participation in Building Child-friendly Libraries to Provide Children with Rich and Diverse Learning Resources

With the continuous development of social education, people gradually recognize the importance of early childhood education. Good early reading experience is important for children's language development, emotional cultivation, cognitive ability improvement, etc. Child-friendly libraries can provide children with a good reading environment and rich reading resources, which can effectively meet children's early reading and education needs. As an organization focusing on children's growth and development, the United Nations Intergovernmental Cooperation for the Construction of Child-Friendly Cities should actively invest in the development of child-friendly city infrastructures, such as child-friendly libraries, in order to provide children with a rich variety of activity spaces and learning resources.

Building child-friendly libraries can provide children with rich and diverse learning resources: first, diversified book resources. Child-friendly libraries can collect a wide range of books suitable for children's reading, including beautifully illustrated and colorful picture books, which tell stories through simple text and vivid images to cultivate children's imagination and creativity; popular science books covering social sciences, natural sciences and other fields, which impart knowledge to children in an easy-to-understand way. Second, digital learning resources. They mainly include e-books that are convenient for children to read anytime and anywhere, and children can use e-readers, tablet computers and other devices to read them, better meeting the reading habits of modern children. For younger children or children with poor reading skills, audio books are a very good learning resource, allowing children to learn about the world and language through the form of listening to stories. Third, learning activity resources. Reading promotion activities such as children's reading festivals, writers' meetings and story-sharing sessions are organized from time to time to increase children's motivation to read; children can exchange and share their reading experience with other young friends during the activities and experience the joy of reading.

The ways in which the United Nations Intergovernmental Cooperation for the Construction of Child-Friendly Cities participates in the construction of child-friendly libraries mainly include the following:

First, space planning and design. First, rational planning and layout of space. Taking children's needs as the starting point, scientific and reasonable planning of library space is carried out; areas with different functions are divided, including parent-child reading area, children's lending area, learning and communication area and activity display area, etc., to meet children's diversified reading and learning needs. For example, the parent-child reading area can be decorated with warm decorations and comfortable sofas, so that parents and children can read together. Secondly, safety and comfort are emphasized. In the library space planning and design process need to give full consideration to the safety of children, choose safe and environmentally friendly building materials, tables, chairs, bookshelves and other furniture edges rounded, and set up the appropriate protective facilities. In addition, we also need to pay attention to the comfort of the library space, to ensure good lighting, ventilation and temperature conditions, to provide children with a comfortable reading environment.

Second, resource integration and capital investment. First, the integration of industrial resources. Give full play to its ability to integrate resources, establish good cooperative relationships with architectural design companies, equipment suppliers, decoration companies, etc., to provide high-quality construction resources and services for child-friendly libraries and guarantee the quality of child-friendly library construction. Second, provide construction support. The construction of Child-Friendly libraries requires a lot of funds, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Cooperation for the Construction of Child-Friendly Cities can invest funds to support the infrastructure construction of libraries, such as investing in the construction of special children's reading areas, equipped with bookshelves suitable for children's height, comfortable tables and chairs, and so on.

Third, the construction of library resources. First, purchasing books that meet children's age characteristics. A large amount of money has been invested in purchasing a rich variety of children's books, mainly including picture books, story books, literature and popular science books, to effectively meet the reading needs of children of all ages. At the same time, we cooperate with world-renowned publishers to obtain the latest, high-quality children's book resources in a timely manner. Second, digital resource construction. Introducing or developing children's digital reading resources, such as e-books, animated videos, audiobooks, etc., to provide children with a diversified reading experience; and building a digital library platform to facilitate children's access to and reading of digital resources anytime and anywhere.

Fourth, technology and facilities support. First, the application of intelligent equipment. Equip libraries with the most advanced intelligent equipment, such as intelligent retrieval systems, self-service borrowing and returning machines, electronic reading devices, etc., to improve the management level and service efficiency of child-friendly libraries; children can use self-service borrowing and returning machines to borrow and return books more conveniently, and quickly and accurately find the books they want to read through the intelligent retrieval system. Secondly, informationization management system. Build the information management system of child-friendly libraries to realize the automation and informatization of book collection, circulation, management and other work; moreover, with the support of the information management system, children's reading data can be widely collected and systematically analyzed to provide strong data support for the management and service of child-friendly libraries.

Fifth, service and activity development. First, training of professional service personnel. Provide professional training for the service staff of child-friendly libraries, which mainly includes communication skills, children's psychology, reading guidance methods, etc.; in this way, improve the staff's service awareness and service ability, and provide more high-quality and efficient services for children readers. Second, organizing reading promotion activities. From time to time, we organize various reading promotion activities, such as children's reading contests, story sharing sessions, etc., to stimulate children's interest in reading and cultivate their good reading habits. It establishes cooperative relationships with communities and schools, and organizes activities such as reading in communities and schools to further expand the service scope of child-friendly libraries. Third, providing personalized reading services. Using big data, artificial intelligence and other new-generation information technologies to comprehensively analyze children's interests and reading behaviors and provide children with personalized book recommendations and reading services.

In summary, in the context of the era of comprehensively promoting the construction of child-friendly cities, the construction of child-friendly libraries is of great significance and plays an irreplaceable role in promoting the comprehensive development of children. Therefore, the United Nations Intergovernmental Cooperation for the Construction of Child-Friendly Cities should actively participate in the construction of child-friendly libraries, provide children with rich and diverse learning resources, and promote children's growth and success!