Recently, Yubei Library unveiled its 40th reading site at the Chongqing Yuelai Exhibition Base of China Construction Eighth Engineering Division. Corp. Ltd. (CCEED). It is named "Gong You Cun (Worker Village)," also the first reading site in a cluster of migrant workers of this library this year. At the unveiling ceremony, Yubei Library held the "All People Reading" activity and applied for library cards for migrant workers. Some staff members of Yubei Library and migrant workers joined the activity.
The 40th reading site of Yubei Library
"Yubei Library gave us a quick response by setting up this reading site after we requested it," said a staff member of "Gong You Cun." The migrant workers have been longing for a small library here.
Later, the staff member of CCEED expressed those workers' wish to Yubei Library. Less than a month later, the two sides worked together to purchase bookshelves and books and build a great reading environment. A reading site, hence, came into being. At the later activity, both sides attributed the reading site's quick establishment to the high importance attached by them. Yubei Library staff hoped that the reading site could be the third home of migrant workers to facilitate them to learn know-what, improve skills, expand exchanges, and broaden their horizons. Yubei Library added more than 500 selected books to arouse the reading interest of project staff members and migrant workers of CCEED.
Workers of the 40th reading site of Yubei Library
Moreover, Yubei Library applied for library cards for migrant workers to help them borrow books at their home place and other public libraries in Chongqing's nine administrative districts. Yubei Library will take the actual conditions into account of Yubei District to build more reading sites in the clusters of migrant workers in an orderly manner. It will also provide better reading services to make universal and equal access to citizens' public cultural services.