Above: Female soldiers borrow books at the Smart Bookstore. Photo by Chen Zhufei
"Borrowing and returning are completed immediately, and the mobile phone scan code is convenient and smart."
In mid-April, Chen Yao, a female soldier in a naval police district in Xisha, borrowed a book from the Smart Bookstore. She said: "Although I can usually read e-books on my mobile phone, I am more happy to enjoy the fragrance of paper books."
In recent years, the Marine Police District has actively improved the guarantee of cultural facilities. Although libraries have been built for the islands, the problem of slow book updates is still prominent. In addition, due to the lack of a dedicated administrator, the library management is not perfect.
At the end of last year, the marine police district signed a cooperation agreement with a publishing house combining the regional characteristics of Xisha Island, and successively invested more than 300,000 yuan to allow the intelligent bookstore to settle in Xisha Island.
Nowadays, the intelligent bookstore of Xisha Island integrates digitization and intelligence into one, and can realize “24-hour self-service cabinet reading”. Officers and soldiers who borrow books for the first time can click the "borrow" button on the "smart lending machine" interface of the bookstore, and scan the code to bind the mobile phone number to briefly understand the contents of the book; if you want to borrow, you can click the button to confirm, the "pane" where the book is located It will automatically open, and officers and soldiers can take books on site.
"Unattended, smart loan." Qin Lei, a communications company soldier and part-time librarian in the Marine Police District, said, "The smart bookstore has basically implemented a 'self-service mode', and the daily workload has been greatly reduced."
In addition, the intelligent bookstore also provides more refined services for book borrowing. Qin Lei said that if the loan time for officers and soldiers expires, the bookstore will send a text message to remind the officers and men to return it in time. Librarians can view the loan records of officers and soldiers through the background, understand the reading preferences of officers and soldiers, and collect the needs of officers and soldiers for the type of books. According to the information available, the administrator coordinated with the cooperative publishing house to update and equip the relevant books in time.
The smart bookstore "does not close", and the island is full of books. "For those who love to read books, it is a pleasure to borrow books in such a bright and elegant bookstore." Lu Bingjie, the communications company instructor of the Marine Police District, said that the intelligent bookstore has been stable in performance since its trial operation, and a wide variety of books have satisfied the officers and soldiers. Different needs.
"Today, there are fewer 'heads-down people' who are addicted to mobile phones in their spare time, and there are more officers and soldiers who love reading." According to the leader of the marine police district, they are preparing to launch "Book Fragrant Xisha Yue" on the occasion of "World Book Day" The "Reading the World" theme book exchange will continue to create a strong atmosphere of book fragrance to help officers and soldiers grow into talents.
Xue Chengqing
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There are books on Qiangjun Road
■ Zhang Qi
When "World Book Day" came on April 23, books scattered on the islands far away from the mainland, indicating that reading has become a way of life for soldiers.
Chairman Xi pointed out: "The Chinese Communists rely on learning to go to today, and they must also rely on learning to go to the future." On the road to the strong army, we will encounter many new situations and new problems, such as how to fight the high-tech information war, the Sino-foreign war What practical significance does the warfare have for today ... These all require officers and soldiers to stand on their posts and be inspired and seek answers in their reading.
Abdominal poetry and gas from China. Bacon said: "Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people beautiful." Practice tells us that reading can cure stupidity and puzzle; grow knowledge, broaden the mind; learn skills and increase skills. We are pleased to see that in recent years, the various troops have actively worked out ways and practical measures to provide spiritual food for the grassroots officers and soldiers: some have established "book friends" on the Internet, and some have set up "mobile book boxes". Accompanying books. Whether it is a paper book or an e-book, we can only grow up into talents and contribute to the cause of the strong army only by keeping learning and charging and drawing rich nutrition from it.