Abstract:

As an important part of the public cultural service system in China, public libraries can provide reading and healing services for senior citizens, which can effectively help them relieve anxiety, loneliness and other negative emotions, and help them get out of their mental dilemma. By analyzing the current research status of reading therapy, this paper summarizes the importance of public libraries in carrying out reading healing services for senior citizens, puts forward four ways to do so, and makes a preliminary prospect of the development of reading healing services in public libraries.