Gwangju Dong-gu, High Kick in Usage Rate of Smart Library Branch 3

Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, held an opening ceremony for the 3rd Smart Library located in the Yongsan district and has officially started its operation.

The 3rd Smart Library began a pilot operation on the 3rd of last month, actively reflecting the opinions of residents who wished for an ‘expansion of library facilities’.

From the 5th, it operates as an unmanned vending machine-type library, open year-round from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Visitors can view the list of about 550 general, infant, and children’s books stored in the device and directly borrow and return them on-site. Each person can borrow up to 2 books for a maximum of 14 days.

Any resident can use the service by using a physical loan card from Dong-gu Library or a mobile membership card (accessed via the Dong-gu Library website on mobile). Non-members can freely use the service through non-member authentication.

As a result of about a month of pilot operation until recently, more than 2,000 books were borrowed, recording the highest usage rate among the five smart libraries in the region, showing strong interest and response from residents.

On the 23rd, Lim Taek, the head of Dong-gu Office, said, “We will continue to promote and discover various policies to establish a foundation for residents’ reading habits, which will be the basis for realizing ‘Dong-gu as a city of humanities.’”

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