The Cultural Affairs Bureau’s (IC) Public Library has continued the bureau’s activity “Where culture flourishes, happiness happens” – “Mobile Library” Outreach Services from May to June in a bid to further strengthen Macau’s development as a “City of Reading” and integrate reading into the communities and daily life, according to IC.
The “Mobile Library” will visit various districts across the SAR on an irregular basis each month, providing convenient outreach services for nearby residents.
During this period, the “Mobile Library” will stop at the following locations: Leisure Area on Taipa Waterfront, Dr. Sun Yat Sen Municipal Park, Leisure Area in Areia Preta Park, Jardim da Flora, Macao Science Center Square, Side Space of Flower City Park (Rua de Coimbra, Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro, Leisure Area in Alameda da Harmonia – Seac Pai Van, Leisure Area along Patane North Bay, Iao Hon Market Park, Tap Seac Square, Barra Square, Praça dos Lótus in Bairro da Ilhe Verde, as well as the Temporary Leisure Area in Doca do Lam Mau.
Activities on site include book browsing, “World of Stories”, and library card registration, suitable for parents and children and the general public.
The “Mobile Library” outreach services bring library resources and diverse reading activities to outdoor community spaces.
Through fun and interactive formats, they infuse the city with cultural vitality and demonstrate the accessibility and convenience of library services. For more information visit www.library.gov.mo.
Meanwhile, IC has been carrying out the “Book for Book” activity since 2024, which has been well received and supported by citizens.
This year, the “Where culture flourishes, happiness happens” — Book for Book activity will be held again in various neighbourhoods in Macau starting in this month, with the event kicking off at Lotus Square, Bairro da Ilha Verde yesterday.
By creating a book exchange platform, IC aims to promote the circulation and sharing of reading resources within the community, allowing more citizens to experience the joy and value of reading.
The activity will continue to be held today at Lotus Square, Bairro da Ilha Verde as well as on 13 and 14 June at Three Lamps (Rotunda de Carlos da Maia) Leisure Area, from noon to 6 pm.
The programme will then continue between October and December.
The activity is on a one-for-one approach. Participants simply bring books that meet the criteria of exchange to the personnel on-site for verification, select their favourite books on offer and exchange them for the equivalent number of their books, with a limit of 20 books per person, per event, aiming to encourage more citizens to participate and increase the circulation of books.
In order to ensure the quality and sustainability of the books for exchange, the activity will not allow the swap of magazines, booklets, education guidebooks, textbooks, event catalogues, children’s cloth books, non-locally-published yearbooks, law books and examination guidebooks, science and engineering books more than five years old, computer books more than three years old, or travel guides more than two years old, pornographic publications or violence-themed books, religious books, pirated books or those in violation of copyright, damaged and soiled books, incomplete collections, poorly bound books, books with missing or soiled pages, as well as books with more than five volumes.
Furthermore, at the “Book for Book” activity site, there is a community exhibition titled “Introduction to Macao Public Library Resources and Services” set up, which introduces various resources and convenient services offered by the Macao Public Library. More details can be found via this link.
Source and Photo: IC
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