The workshop was organized to assess the existing situation of reading needs and trends of teenagers within the context of the information technology boom and the industrial revolution 4.0, based on which scientists, managers and activists discuss to find out solutions to the development of reading culture among the community in general and teenagers in particular in the digital environment.
In his opening speech at the workshop, Mr. Pham Quoc Hung – Director of the Library Department (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) said, the Government’s Project on Developing Reading Culture in the Community by 2020, with a vision to 2030 identifies the importance of developing reading habits, needs, skills and movements among all classes of people, especially among young people, teenagers, pupils and students; contributing to improving people’s intellectual level, developing thinking and creativity, fostering personality and soul, accelerating building a learning society. In the context of the increasing development of science and technology, especially the achievements of the fourth industrial revolution and the trend of digital transformation, the policy of developing reading culture at a macro level, together with practical activities to develop a reading culture at ministries, branches and localities for young teenagers have many changes in approach, organization, assessment methods etc. These issues need to be thoroughly identified and thereby become the basis for making specific policies on the development of reading culture for teenagers in the digital era.
At the workshop, the delegates listened to 7 presentations by experts from the Department of Propaganda and Training, Vietnam National University, Hanoi; Army Library; People’s Public Security Library; General Sciences Library of Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam Association of the Blind.
These presentations focused on a number of issues such as evaluating the existing status of reading needs and trends of teenagers within the context of the information technology boom; library with propaganda and development of reading culture for military youth in the digital environment; psychology of the young generation and reading; an initiative to build a number of effective reading promotion models in propagating and developing a reading culture for young people, especially in the context of the industrial revolution 4.0; identifying the impact of information and communication technology on reading culture. On this basis, limitations, difficulties and causes have been identified, and orientations and solutions for the development of reading culture for teenagers in the digital age have been discussed.
All the perspectives at the workshop reached a common viewpoint that there should be a specific policy on developing a reading culture among young people, with a reasonable change in how to implement and the development of library digital resources should be accelerated.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism assigned the Library Department to gather and acquire the presentations and comments at the Workshop to develop a new direction of State management of libraries, in line with the reality, to promote propaganda and development of reading culture for young people in the context of digital transformation.
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