The goal of the Project in the coming time is to continue to diversify content, suitable for the facility, increase e-books, and attract more readers.
15 years of bringing books to the grassroots
Over the past 15 years, the Project has provided communes, wards and towns in 63 provinces and cities with 593 books (including CD-ROMs and Audio CDs), with a total of more than 14.4 million printed copies. The Project's electronic library page (thuviencoso.vn) was built in early 2020, digitizing more than 400 books. The books are diverse in topics such as: Party building, government building, the Fatherland Front and mass organizations; disseminating knowledge of politics, economics, law, culture-society, science and technology, etc.
The effectiveness of the Project is demonstrated through survey figures: More than 75% of the surveyed officials have accessed the Project's book genres; more than 50% of the surveyed officials assessed the quality of the content and form of the Project's products as relatively good... When receiving books, localities have divided them reasonably according to the target readers. For the tool books serving officials and civil servants, they are kept at the headquarters; books popularizing law, common science, agricultural promotion... are brought to cultural houses and community learning centers to serve the people. In some localities, many good practices and models have emerged to promote the value of grassroots bookcases such as: Contests to learn about Project books, the "Legal Highlights" model to bring legal books to businesses and public places, and mobilize book donations to enrich grassroots bookcases... A typical example is Ho Chi Minh City, the whole city has 1,758 grassroots bookcases with 13,921 titles; With many creative ways, it has attracted more than 1 million readers.
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People in Dong village, Phu Da commune, Vinh Tuong district, Vinh Phuc province read books under the Project. Photo provided by the National Political Publishing House Truth |
In addition to the achieved results, the implementation and organization of the Project still have some difficulties and limitations, the most prominent of which are: The policy of streamlining the payroll, reducing the number of focal points, many district and commune level libraries continue to be merged, even abolished. The type of libraries, bookcases, and community reading rooms managed by the commune government have their budget cut, transferred to the community for management, basically making it very difficult to survive. In addition, there is a lack of initiative in exploiting, using, and disseminating books; in many places, the facilities do not meet the requirements, there is a lack of equipment to serve readers...
Continue to improve the quality of the Project
To solve the difficulties and shortcomings in implementing the Project, according to Ms. Nguyen Hoai Anh, Deputy Director, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the National Political Publishing House, Truth: It is necessary to improve the quality of content and form of books, expand and increase the number and topics of books distributed to localities; invest funds to ensure facilities to serve readers; regularly survey, inspect and evaluate the implementation status of the Project in provinces and cities; strengthen communication work on press agencies and social networking platforms to introduce the purpose and meaning of the Project, effective book use models at the grassroots level; reward and commend good models, practical and effective ways of doing things to contribute to spreading the attraction of the Project to the community.
In the context of the strong development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digital transformation has become an inevitable trend; in addition to the need to use traditional paper books, cadres and people at the grassroots level also want to access digital publishing products such as: Accessing and reading books on the internet, social networks; reading books on software applications... According to Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Hoai Son, Standing Member of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Education: It is necessary to focus on diversifying publishing methods, enhancing the method of publishing e-books and disseminating book content on digital platforms. The project needs to publish more audiobooks, picture books, multimedia books in many languages to serve online reading and research for cadres, people of all walks of life at the grassroots level, serving ethnic minorities.
The most important thing for the Project to continue to promote its consistent purpose is to improve and enhance the quality of the Project's documents. Party committees and authorities of many localities recommend that the Project Steering Committee should regularly organize working groups to grasp the actual situation in the locality to find out what fields people need to read books on, from which new books with content suitable to the tastes and qualifications of the people and officials can be compiled; and the shortening of books with inappropriate content should be minimized.
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