Wang Zizhou Li Jing Chen Xinyue Li Danqing He Mengjie ZhengYuanyuan Yu Hui Liu Hanyue
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Rural library is an important part of rural culture. On reviewing the history of rural libraries, this article discussed issues of the rural libraries' participating in rural cultural revitalization, including the theoretical basis, the existing problems in the development, the ways of revitalization and the current practical experience. Then, this paper summarized two primary actors with their advantages and disadvantages in the development of rural libraries, revealed the status of rural libraries in the revitalization of rural culture, and proposed feasible solutions for enhancing the healthy development and service capacity of rural libraries. It is believed that rural libraries have the functions of preserving rural memories, disseminating human knowledge and fostering local identity, which contributed to roles of rural libraries as the second classroom for social education, the public space for exchanging information and opinions, and the cultural place for leisure and entertainment. The external effects of rural libraries were also discovered to be significant, such as helping villagers to get rich and becoming a symbol of beautiful rural culture. It is suggested that the construction of rural libraries should follow the bottom-up and endogenous mode,in four pathways for the sustainable development: (1) government sectors investing at different levels and integrating various resources to establish rural libraries, (2) government sectors promoting the development of rural culture by purchasing rural library services, (3) encouraging new prominent rural personages or social forces to establish rural libraries to support the construction of rural culture, and (4) professionals from library field intervening in the activities of rural libraries to provide professional guidance and various resources.