Operation of Smart Libraries at Four Locations Including Yeouido Station in Yeongdeungpo-gu

Yeongdeungpo-gu, Would You Like to Read a Book at the Subway Station?

Operating Smart Libraries with About 500 Books at Four Locations Including Yeouido Station... New Books Also Available

Providing Various Convenient Services to Expand Reading Culture, Such as Interlibrary Loan and Book Reservation and Return Machines

Aiming to Create a Reading Culture City That Quenches Reading Thirst and Connects People with Books Anytime, Anywhere

Yeouido Station Smart Library

Yeongdeungpo-gu (Mayor Choi Ho-kwon) announced that it has newly stocked new and popular books by operating smart libraries at subway stations and sports centers to provide library services closely connected to daily life.

The district operates smart libraries inside subway stations where office workers commuting by train and residents who find it inconvenient to visit libraries far away can borrow and return books.

Residents can easily borrow from about 500 books available through the smart libraries, which operate 365 days a year without holidays. People with disabilities can also conveniently use the service via a keypad.

Currently, the district operates smart libraries at four locations: Yangpyeong Station, Yeouido Station, Yeongdeungpo 1st Sports Center, and 2nd Sports Center, and newly updates desired books, new releases, and bestsellers quarterly.

Additionally, to help users easily select books, information such as books of the month, recommended books, and suggested readings are provided monthly through monitors.

Anyone who is a member of the Yeongdeungpo-gu public library can borrow up to four books per person for three weeks at any time from the smart libraries.

If the desired book is not available at a nearby library, the district expands the interlibrary loan service not only to public libraries but also to small libraries, allowing residents to receive books from other libraries. The district expects this service to activate book resource sharing and improve convenience for residents.

Moreover, unmanned book reservation and return machines are operated at three public libraries and three small libraries, enabling book borrowing and returning anytime regardless of library operating hours.

Choi Ho-kwon, Mayor of Yeongdeungpo-gu, said, “Yeongdeungpo will lead the reading culture so that busy modern people can meet their own life books in daily life and gain comfort and rest in life,” and added, “We will continue to do our best so that residents can quench their reading thirst and stay close to books anytime, anywhere.”

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