[Purpose/significance] This paper aims to explore the origin and development of seed library, and answer what kind of inspiration the seed library can provide to the grass-roots library service innovation, and why it can help grass-roots library to realize the transformation from literature service and space service to tool service in China.[Method/process] This paper combed through the concept, foreign practice and target position of seed libraries, discussed the main modes of operation and maintenance of foreign seed libraries, and put forward its feasible references for the realization of high-quality development and characteristic transformation of libraries at basic level in China.[Result/conclusion] The study finds that seed libraries reflect the action consciousness of European and American community libraries in response to community integration, social tolerance and national needs. It has certain references for breaking the current predicament of "out of circle" of grass-roots libraries in China. China should attach importance to the value of seed libraries in popular science education, local culture and ecological protection, seed safety and food traceability, cultural and tourism integration and community networks, promote the sinicization of seed libraries and make more contributions to the transformation of the characteristics and the embedding of life of libraries at basic level in China.
Li Zhuozhuo
,
Zhang Kang
,
Jin Lei
. Seed Library: Exploration of Characteristic Transformation and Community Extension of Libraries at Basic Level[J]. Library and Information Service, 2021
, 65(21)
: 61
-69
.
DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2021.21.013
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