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我是陕西科技大学的一名文学老师，有时会想：除了教书，我能不能走出校园，为社会做点什么？一次机会，我到西安市碑林区文化和旅游体育局挂职，任副局长。碑林区是西安市的中心城区，却没有一家图书馆，让我错愕。更让我错愕的是，我即将接手的这个"西安市碑林区图书馆建设项目" 要建在地下！墙皮破损，电线裸露，没个好模样，人手就我和馆长小宁两个人。

小宁说买书的事情全听我的。书商纷纷发来书目，但我发现得自己动手编一个更适合本区读者的书目出来。我们的馆小，书少，这恰恰困难—稍微买偏了，就会大量被闲置。

碑林区是市中心商业繁华区，周末常有家长带小孩子来附近逛街，应该加大文学书和少儿书的占比。附近有全国最大的石碑博物馆，展出的不是绘画或者器皿珠宝，而是"字"。这个地方离我们图书馆步行只有几分钟，应该设立一个碑帖专区，大量地买，做成特色。要设立一个单独的外文童书区，在碑林区工作的外国人不少，如果他们的孩子在这里看见母语故事，一定很激动吧。还应该有一个漫画专区，把这个区域做好了，这几个书架也可能会成为漫粉聚集地，

The Planetary Humanism of European Women's Science Fiction argues that utopian science fiction written by European women has, since the seventeenth century, played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination.

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The Handbook:

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