Reading Promoters' Training: New Service of Public Library - A Case Study of Pudong Library of China

Abstract

In order to make reading promotion more professional and qualified, some libraries and associations in China are training reading promoters. The Pudong Library of Shanghai is a typical case. This article summarizes the theory and the practice of reading promoter training, and discusses the operation offered by Pudong Library. It also concludes the achievements, innovations and the characteristics of the training, and further provides the developmental directions of the training. This article aims to introduce a new service that was undertook by the Pudong Library, and considers how to make this practice more effective and well-developed