Attractiveness of libraries and promoting reading
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The goal of the assessment
The assessment’s main question was whether the attractiveness of libraries has been increased, and reading and literacy promoted in accordance with the City Strategy and budget targets. The City Strategy 2021–2025 sets out to make Helsinki the capital of reading and literacy and to strengthen the attractiveness of libraries and their position as community meeting places. Promoting reading and literature is also a statutory task for Library Services. The City Strategy aims to ensure that local services, such as libraries, are no more than fifteen minutes away on foot, by bike or by public transport.
Conclusions
The attractiveness of libraries has been increased and libraries have promoted reading and literacy in line with their objectives. Visitor volume targets for 2023 have been met, and libraries have also taken sufficient measures to promote reading, in line with the Culture and Leisure Division’s action plan for 2023. The regional network of local libraries has been secured. The accessibility of libraries in different areas has been monitored, and the service network has been planned and supplemented based on that monitoring. Most city residents can reach the nearest library within fifteen minutes by walking, cycling, or via public transport.
the Culture and Leisure Division’s Library Services and the Education Division should
- continue to develop cooperation between libraries and upper secondary schools.
- monitor how the implementation of library visits for the entire age cohort of first-, thirdand seventh-grade school pupils, which is an objective for the Education Division and Library Services, varies by region and school.
- take measures based on the monitoring that will improve the coverage of library visits by schoolchildren under the agreement between the Education Division and Library Services.
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