Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Readers Work submitted time 2021-09-22
Abstract： The purpose of this paper is to accurately grasp the current situation and development trend of research on the services for children and young adults in public libraries in China, to sort out and analyze the shortcomings and defects of the existing researches, and to provide a better reference for future research. Through a literature search of Chinese and English studies on this domain, 3,224 papers were classified into five categories according to research methods, and each category and its subcategories were systematically reviewed. The study found that the research on public library services for children and young adults had a variety of topics. It has a wide range of contents and fit the national requirements and social needs. It mainly focused on the interests of special groups and had its own research characteristics. At the same time, the proportion of non-empirical studies was large, there were fewer studies with depth and persistence, and the international influence was very small. In the future, we should actively draw on the empirical paradigms of other social sciences to study the core issues of this discipline and make the research on library services for children aged 0-18 more detailed and in-depth.
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Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Library Science submitted time 2020-12-20
Abstract： With the increasing demand for library services for children, China has paid more attention to the collection and service construction of children s libraries. However, what kind of benefits the children s library has brought to children, especially whether the children’s literacy is really promoted by libraries? Through literature research and analysis, two major types of researches were found to answer this question: literacy promotion researches and library literacy program evaluation. Because the first type of researches does not take the library as the main factor in literacy development, its conclusions cannot really answer the questions we care about. The second type of researches can be divided into three categories according to different reader groups: book gifting research, early literacy project evaluation, and summer reading project evaluation. However, no substantial research work has been carried out on this issue in China. The library researchers have begun to address this critical and fundamental question. But currently, the depth and standardization of these researches could not answer the question well, and still left many unanswered questions. Children s library researchers should adopt a broader perspective, more diverse metrics tools, and more solid scientific approaches to clarify and demonstrate the great role that children s libraries can play in literacy development.
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