Rural Library Project

健华图书馆

Chinese introduction follows English ones . 中文简介在英文简介之後。

Introduction

Cultural Enrichment Coalition 健华社 donates funds for the purchase of reading material and/or computers to town/village public and/or school libraries in rural China. All such libraries carry the nomenclature of Jianhua Library (健华图书馆) as the key component or the entirety of their names. While many Jianhua libraries are located in towns'/villages' most centrally located schools, some also function as public libraries and are open to the general public in the community.

All Jianhua libraries are established and maintained under the following procedures:

CEC recruits and trains front-line liaisons in various provinces/regions of China. All are volunteers without monetary compensation; some of them are active or retired teachers/librarians, others may be government officials.

  1. Based on criteria /guidelines established by CEC, the liaison first identifies towns/villages with public or school libraries lacking funding for reading material and computers.

  2. He/she then visits and interviews the town officials, encouraging those proactive to providing free library & information service to the public to apply.

  3. Upon meeting the town leaders and inspecting the library site, the liaison evaluates/transmits the library funding application to CEC, together with his/her own independent recommendation.

  4. For each approved application, CEC drafts a written agreement with requirements for library site preparation. They are forwarded to the applicant and liaison in charge. All parties must go over the documents carefully for thorough mutual understanding of the purpose and implementation of the library sponsorship program.

  5. After the agreement is finalized and all CEC requirements for library site preparation are met, CEC will release funds to be used solely for the acquisition of library resources including books, journals, newspapers, digital readings, and computers with free public Internet access. Currently, the total amount for each library is $6,000 payable in two i$3,000 installments within four years. (i.e., after receiving the initial payment of $3,000, the library meeds to take the initiative on applying for the second installment upon submitting annual reports for at least two full years of satisfactory library operation).

  6. The local town/village commitment to the Jianhua library is to provide a centrally located structure/classroom of a minimum of 100 square meters as the library, the necessary furniture, free internet connection, one full-time librarian, and an annual book budget of no less than ¥2,000 RMB.

  7. Any donor(s) contributing $6,000 to a library may name the library in honor of someone. An inscribed plaque will be permanently displayed in that library. Such an arrangement is negotiated with the local officials, and is written into the agreement.

  8. To promote popular interest in using public library & information services, and to honor the library sponsorship, an opening ceremony is held for the establishment of each new CEC sponsored library. During the ceremony, the final written agreement is signed jointly by a CEC representative and the town officials. With the enriched new resources provided by CEC, each library brings forth the much needed reading, information, knowledge and new ideas to a small community serving an average of 20,000 local residents/students who would otherwise have no access to free reading or the vast amount of information via Internet.


简介

健华社向中国农村乡镇公共图书馆捐赠资金，用于购买阅读材料和计算机。所有这些图书馆都以‘健华图书馆’名称为关键部分或全部馆名。健华社资助了许多位于乡镇文化站内的公共图书馆,也资助了许多建设在某乡镇中心学校内的学校图书馆.

所有健华图书馆均按以下程序建立和设置：

健华社在中国各省/地区招募和培训一线联络代表。所有人都是无偿志工 ; 其中大多是在职或退休的公务员,教师或图书馆员。

1) 根据健华社制定的标准/指导方针，联络代表首先物色/确定某乡镇的公共或学校图书馆缺乏推广阅读和电脑资讯的资金。

2) 然后，他/她访问并采访乡镇政府官员，鼓励并协助那些积极主动愿向公众提供免费图书馆和信息服务的人申请。

3) 在会见乡镇领导并检视图书馆网站后, 如果认可乡镇领导的积极性及建馆客观条件，联络代表将他/她自己的独立评估/传送给健华社, 同时协助并推荐该图书馆的资助申请。

4) 对于每个已批准的申请，健华社都会发书面通知给申请方及复本给经手联络代表，要求图书馆申请方进行场地人员馆牌制作等相关准备。各方必须仔细阅读文件，以充分了解资助健华图书馆的目的和建馆流程。

5) 在图书馆申请方圆满完成各项准备后，健华社将发付资助金，专门用于购买包括书籍，期刊，报纸，及其他可通过公共互联网搜阅的图书信息资源。目前，每个图书馆的总金额为6,000美元，分为两次在三年内支付（开馆时收到首次3,000美元后,图书馆必须于每年年底填交健华社制定的标准年度报表; 在成功营运至少两整年后, 图书馆应主动申请第二次购书补助款. 健华社收到翔实的年度图书馆报表并认可后，会支付第二次资助款3,000美元)

6）当地城镇/村庄的承诺是: 提供至少100平方米的位置适中进出便利的房屋/教室作为图书馆址，配备必要的书架桌椅, 可让读者免费使用的网络连接，至少一名全职图书管理员和每年至少¥2,,000 元人民币的书籍添购预算。

7）凡是一次捐赠6,000美元的任何捐助者都可以为了纪念某人而命名该图书馆。撰文铭刻的特制牌匾将永久性显示在该图书馆中。牌匾制作要求会写入协议, 具体细节及撰文内容会与当地负责人商定.

8) 为了促进大众对使用公共图书馆和信息服务的兴趣，以及对图书馆赞助进行表彰，每个新的健华图书馆成立时会举行开幕式。仪式中由健华社代表和地方政府负责官员共同签署建馆协议。通过健华社提供的丰富新书资源，每所健华图书馆都为当地学生教师社区民众免费提供大量好读物，新信息，新知识和新思潮; 平均有两万名当地居民/学生受益.