http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/06/03/some-observations-and-suggestions-about-the-rural-china-education-foundation-library-programs-at-two-rural-sites/ Random stuff that I think matters. Int'l politics, linguistics, China, int'l development, society&tech, culture... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/06/03/some-observations-and-suggestions-about-the-rural-china-education-foundation-library-programs-at-two-rural-sites/#comment-19878 Ivan Chew Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:38:31 +0000 http://reganmian.net/blog/?p=225#comment-19878 Hi Stian, posts like this would be perfect for the IFLA Libraries for Children & Young Adults Section's newsletter. Hi Stian, posts like this would be perfect for the IFLA Libraries for Children & Young Adults Section’s newsletter.

]]> http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/06/03/some-observations-and-suggestions-about-the-rural-china-education-foundation-library-programs-at-two-rural-sites/#comment-18838 lemongrasschicken Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:12:35 +0000 http://reganmian.net/blog/?p=225#comment-18838 hey this is very interesting to me. one thing I would add into the report is some suggestion about the available mechanisms of funding for gathering more books (perhaps you wrote about it and I missed it?). It is simply unbelievable that one of the libraries in contained within two shelves. I wonder if this is not just a function of paucity of library facilities but also an increased access to information published on the internet. I think that your study has to be checked against internet data to make it more compatible with the current era - I really think that internet made a huge impact on a lot of our reading and writing related habits and so libraries have to be evaluated in this relationship, too. Also, I thought a bit about the times when I was in highschool in Poland and I remember that I hardly ever used the library attached to school but always the public one. For one thing, the latter was bigger and it contained a lot of "adult" books, in a sense that reading seemed like an activity that earns you age prestige, if you borrow serious books that mostly adults read. I think it was important to have had that opportunity to make that intellectual jump but I wonder if this is not perhaps so easy and available in China.. if children cannot read about ghosts? Am I too old and bitter to comprehend it, or are ghosts something else in China? hey this is very interesting to me. one thing I would add into the report is some suggestion about the available mechanisms of funding for gathering more books (perhaps you wrote about it and I missed it?). It is simply unbelievable that one of the libraries in contained within two shelves. I wonder if this is not just a function of paucity of library facilities but also an increased access to information published on the internet. I think that your study has to be checked against internet data to make it more compatible with the current era - I really think that internet made a huge impact on a lot of our reading and writing related habits and so libraries have to be evaluated in this relationship, too. Also, I thought a bit about the times when I was in highschool in Poland and I remember that I hardly ever used the library attached to school but always the public one. For one thing, the latter was bigger and it contained a lot of “adult” books, in a sense that reading seemed like an activity that earns you age prestige, if you borrow serious books that mostly adults read. I think it was important to have had that opportunity to make that intellectual jump but I wonder if this is not perhaps so easy and available in China.. if children cannot read about ghosts? Am I too old and bitter to comprehend it, or are ghosts something else in China?

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