日本公共图书馆应对少子化问题的社会服务策略及思考

Social Service Strategies and Reflections of Japanese Public Libraries in Response to the Problems of Declining Birthrates

作为公共文化服务机构,公共图书馆有着自身的社会与文化使命,和以人为本的服务思想。面对少子化的社会问题,日本公共图书馆在男女婚恋、家庭育儿、助力主妇回归社会等方面开展了一系列服务活动,为解决此类社会问题作出了极大的努力。考察少子化环境下日本公共图书馆开展的特色社会服务以及发挥的社会作用,探寻我国同等社会情形下图书馆应采取的服务策略,以期对我国公共图书馆的相关服务提供借鉴。

As a public cultural service institution,public libraries have their own social and cultural missions and people-oriented service ideas.Faced with the social problem of declining birthrates,Japanese public libraries have carried out a series of service activities in the fields of marriage and love between men and women,family parenting,and helping housewives return to society.As a social public group,they have made great efforts to solve such social problems.This article examines the characteristic social services and social roles played by Japanese public libraries under the environment of declining birthrates,and explores the corresponding service strategies that libraries should adopt under the same social situation in China,aiming at providing reference for the relevant services of Chinese public libraries.