On The Effectiveness Of University Library’s Moral Education

Library has been an important battlefield for mass ideological and political education since the democratic revolution and socialist revolution. Meanwhile, it is also one of the bases of spreading advanced ideas and has played a huge role in the victory of the proletariat revolution. After the liberation, the library becomes an important place for all kinds of books and periodicals and other information to circulate and publicize, conveying rich knowledge. In addition, it becomes the main channel for ideological and political education, improving the scientific and cultural qualities of the masses, and educating them ideologically and politically and improving their ideological and political consciousness as well.Contemporarily, university library is one of the main places for college students, where there are abundant resources and documents, which have very high value of the moral education. At the same time there are a lot of human resources and material resources. The present university library plays an important role in cultivating college students’ morality, and improving the comprehensive quality of students, guiding students to set up the correct outlook on life, values and world values which cannot be ignored. It is a very powerful supplement to the moral education in colleges and universities.By means of document research, questionnaire survey, interviews and comparative research, this thesis investigates and analyzes the present situation of the moral education function of university library. The full paper is divided into three parts:The first part, introduces the relative definitions about moral education, the university library and university library’s moral education. The thesis analyzes the advantages of moral education of university library. There is a great space of choice for students; there are considerable resources in this information center, such as books of literature, philosophy, history, art, natural science of which some books of art, literature, aesthetics can more effectively improve the students’ aesthetic and moral cultivation; the university library can be used to effectively improve the continuity and systemic feature; the process of moral education in university library is imperceptible which are accepted by students unknowingly; every college student is one unique individual, and the university library can provide students with rich variety of resources, which caters for the students’ characteristics of diversified development. The last of this chapter demonstrates the main methods of moral education, which includes resources, emotional communication, etc…The second part, analyzes the effectiveness of moral education in university library. By means of document research, comparative research and so on, this thesis investigates and analyzes the present situation of the moral education function of university library, pointing out the shortages and challenge they are facing. There are some problems in carrying out moral education, such as the facts that the concept of moral education is insufficient, that the moral education method is too simple, that the publicizing and guidance is not enough, librarians’ quality level is not high, ect.. At the same time, the performance of moral education of university library also faces challenges from the social development, the network environment, and that of education system, etc. To bring into better the moral education function of university library, the library management must solve these problems, and face the problems correctly.The third part puts forward five countermeasures of advancing the actual effect of moral education of university library, the first of which is to update the concept of moral education through the implementation of its moral responsibility and strengthening its cooperation with other departments closely together. The second method is to enhance the construction of the moral education environment of university library by construction of library material environment and humanistic environment. The third is to promote the librarians’ quality by encouraging them to learn, establishing the talent team of open mode and to optimize its personnel structure. The forth is to carry out moral education in selected reading. The last is to establish an open system of moral education resources employment through the development and utilization of moral education resources and introduction of education mechanism in open mode. Then the moral education of Chinese college libraries can be strengthened and their actual effects can be enhanced.