The Wuwei City Library in Gansu Province refuses to accept donations of university textbooks. What are the regulations for collecting books in the library?

In early September, some netizens reported to the Secretary of the Wuwei Municipal Party Committee on the leadership message board of People's Daily Online that after years of hard work, Wuwei City finally has a large-scale library of its own. This is a big thing. It is also a good thing for the common people. Recently, the library has been accepting donations of books from all walks of life, but we have encountered problems. When we donated books, the library did not accept some university textbooks because they were textbooks. I think this view is very unreasonable. The reason is that many university textbooks are the essence of the subject knowledge and years of research results carefully summarized by experts in related fields. They have strong science popularization value for ordinary people. They can also be used in medical, environmental protection, machinery, etc. These books are important research references in the fields of agriculture, tourism, economic development, etc. Both experts in related fields and government workers must use these books. Therefore, it is recommended to accept university textbooks donated by all walks of life. Otherwise, it will appear that the library management has a narrow-minded vision. The library lacks an inclusive academic style!

Official reply: Wuwei Municipal Library is a comprehensive municipal medium-sized public library established by the Wuwei Municipal People's Government. It is a public welfare cultural infrastructure serving the general public, with a construction area of ??21,373 square meters. , designed to have a collection of 990,000 books and 1,700 reading seats. In order to enrich the collection of books, the Wuwei Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism announced on August 24, 2019, through the Wuwei Daily and the WeChat public account of the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism that "The book city never sleeps, you and I - I "Donate books to the library" book donation initiative, the centralized donation period is September 1st - September 30th, 2019.

The donation range includes all kinds of healthy and uplifting books suitable for public reading. Such as: children's books, social sciences, literature, economics and management, philosophy, life, local literature, etc. Magazines, periodicals, current affairs books, teaching materials and teaching aids, old and discolored books, stained paintings and other books that are not suitable for donation are not included in the scope of donation.

Wuwei City Library will appropriately accept some university textbooks and classify books that do not meet the conditions for listing. After the library is opened and operational, a "Donation and Book Exchange Center" will be established for the exchange of such books. and transfer them to other public welfare organizations, and register them in a register to indicate the whereabouts of such books. We will donate books that are not suitable for the library collection to those in need in society through the "Book Donation and Exchange Center".