读了全总李培元的文章、大连图书馆读者协会成立以及记者的报导,又一次使我们看到,一个群众性的读书活动的热潮正在蓬勃兴起。广大读者,尤其是青年人,渴望知识,要求读书。他们的热情,需要鼓舞;他们的要求,理宜支持;他们的活动,应予引导。如果和广大读者有着经常的、密切的联系的各地、各级、各类图书馆,都能把读书工作认真地当作 After reading the article by Li Peiyuan, the establishment of the readers ’association of Dalian Library and the reporters’ reports, we can see once again that the craze of a mass reading activity is booming. The vast majority of readers, especially young people, long for knowledge and demand for reading. Their enthusiasm needs to be encouraged; their demands should be appropriately supported; their activities should be guided. If and all the readers have regular and close contact all over, all levels, all kinds of libraries, can study seriously as