[Purpose/significance] The current public welfare civil domestic reading club is flourishing and has become the important carrier of promoting national reading engineering support. Because of the nonprofit nature of the civil reading clubs, as the increase of the readers and activities, they are facing a difficult survival environment. In view of this, this paper attempts to explore how the folk reading will cooperate fully with the library, not only solving the reading difficulties and innovating the library service function, but also benefiting people through sharing. [Method/process] Based on the investigation of the present situation of folk reading activity, the paper summarizes that the folk reading will play a positive energy and can not be underestimated in making up the shortage of knowledge, communication of young professional academic, and cultivating citizen reading habits. At the same time it reveals the folk reading manpower information such as resource scarcity dilemma, and then puts forward the cooperation strategy with the library, in order to promote the sustainable development of private book club.[Result/conclusion] The development of reading club should be valued and guided by the government. Library should serve reading party inescapably, such as supporting reading club in the aspects of information resources and human resources at the time of helping reading club to share resources. It is a win-win strategy if library can support civil reading club and cooperate with it, while the national reading project will not be developed without the library and civil reading party.