Improve reading efficiency and increase people’s ability to access the law

Currently, legal books are very diverse and rich. However, in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution developing strongly with the application of information technology, digital transformation, and diverse forms of access to legal information, reading culture in general, cultural Reading legal books in particular is facing many difficulties and challenges.

Each year, on average, a Vietnamese person only reads 4 legal books for reference; The situation of management and exploitation of legal books and grassroots cultural and information institutions is also very difficult and needs solutions; The number of people reading legal books is not much…

Opening speech at the seminar “Solutions to improve the effectiveness of legal reading culture” taking place on April 17 of the Department of Legal Education and Popularization, Deputy Director of the Department of Legal Education and Popularization Phan Hong Nguyen emphasized: Books are a valuable treasure of human knowledge, playing an important role in transmitting information about human knowledge to people. Law books are important tools and means to inform about law, disseminate and educate about law, and bring legal knowledge to the people.

Article 11 of the Law on Dissemination and Education of Law defines: Books and legal documents are one of the effective forms of dissemination and education of law.

Regarding the issue of building, managing and exploiting legal bookcases in the Border Guard force, Lieutenant Colonel Luong Khac Cua, Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department, Political Department of the Border Guard said, in recent years, Propaganda, dissemination and legal education are paid attention and directed by all levels and branches to implement, gradually raising awareness and sense of law observance for officials, people, contributing to building a strong border area. Party committees and commanders at all levels in the Border Guard are always aware that the work of propaganda, dissemination and legal education through the channel of building bookcases and legal bookshelves at border guard stations is one of the positive and necessary tasks. necessary, serving the work of the Border Guard, and at the same time contributing to raising people’s awareness of law observance.

To effectively promote the Law Bookcase to serve the needs of learning about the law, raising the awareness of self-equipping legal knowledge for officers, soldiers and people in border areas, according to Lieutenant Colonel Luong Khac Cua, it is necessary Implement comprehensively and synchronously the legal books and operations of specific solutions such as: leaders and commanders of agencies and units must regularly pay attention to leading and closely directing the work of cabinet construction. legal books at the grassroots; Promote the core role of Border Guard stations in coordinating with functional agencies of the cultural, ideological, judicial and postal sectors to build and organize well the activities of law bookstores in border areas. world, sea and islands; Organize legal propaganda in many forms and measures at each border line in accordance with the nature of the tasks of each agency and the intellectual level of each region; Improve the quality of construction, management and exploitation of legal bookcases at Border Guard stations.

Solutions to improve the efficiency of reading legal books

To improve the effectiveness of legal reading culture, many specific solutions have been proposed such as: continuing to promulgate institutions and policies to encourage reading culture and effective institutions to serve reading culture; Promote the application of information technology and digital transformation in publishing all types of electronic legal books; Interested in investing and publishing legal books for disadvantaged people in society.

Regarding the form of exploitation, regularly supplement and thoroughly exploit the sources of books, newspapers, and documents in cultural and information institutions at the grassroots and in the community to serve people’s research and understanding; widely and promptly disseminate books, newspapers and legal documents in the form of directory information, search guides and other forms of propaganda information.

Previously, sharing about solutions to improve the effectiveness of legal bookcases, Mr. Bui Thi Thuy Binh, Director of the Department of Justice of Hoa Binh province, said that there needs to be synchronous and strong participation of officials of different departments. functional levels and branches, first of all, it is necessary to change the awareness of leadership and management staff about the role and necessity of maintaining this model. Along with that, diversify forms of storage, management and exploitation in a direction consistent with development trends. At the same time, there are appropriate ways to propagate and orient people.

The selection of books to supplement the law bookshelf also requires attention. In addition to basic legal documents, priority should be given to adding books that focus on legal questions and answers, commenting on specific, practical, and easily accessible and receptive cases.