Gwanak District Public Library to Standardize Closing Day to Monday Starting March

For User Convenience, Gwanak District Public Libraries' 10 Branches Standardize Closure Day to Monday... Expected to Serve as Cultural Hubs and Knowledge Information Cradles Amid Prolonged COVID-19 Pandemic

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Gwanak-gu (Mayor Park Jun-hee) announced that starting from March 1, the closing day of the 10 Gwanak-gu public libraries will be unified and changed to Monday.

This change aims to eliminate the inconvenience for residents who had to check the available libraries each time due to different closing days for each library, and to improve the efficiency of library operations.

With this unification of closing days, it will support reading activities through new interaction methods such as contactless lectures and online content in the untact era, while also serving as an opportunity to advance as a library that listens to citizens' voices and communicates with them.

Amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the district provides various non-face-to-face services such as the Neighborhood Bookstore Direct Loan System, Interlibrary Loan Service, and Subway U-Library.

In particular, the 'Neighborhood Bookstore Direct Loan System,' conducted in partnership with seven local bookstores, has attracted great interest and response from residents, with a total of 16,040 users and 26,975 loans since the project began.

Additionally, the district has developed regionally specialized content and uploaded it to the Gwanak Cultural Foundation's YouTube channel. Various non-face-to-face viewing contents are provided, including the historical content 'Goryeo Avengers,' featuring General Gang Gam-chan and the Goryeo dynasty, and the 'Daegwang-gwang' (Directly Advertising Gwanak-gu) series introducing local restaurants and attractions.

Gwanak-gu Mayor Park Jun-hee stated, “We will continue to support residents' reading lives with various non-face-to-face content amid the prolonged COVID-19 situation, and furthermore, establish a reading environment suitable for the COVID era to serve as a cultural hub and cradle of knowledge and information.”

Information about library programs and facility use can be found on the Gwanak-gu Integrated Library website and social media channels such as Facebook and Instagram.

For more details, please contact the Gwanak Central Library.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.