Yokohama City Library Vision

In March 2024, with a view to 10 to 20 years from now, we looked at medium- to long-term social changes, and formulated it as an indication of the future library's "target" and "direction of initiatives".
We position as individual administrative policy about library and promote integrally while planning consistency about part related to medium-term plan of city, financial vision, education vision, education promotion basic plan, Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan . (The design was renewed in May 2024.)

Cover-back cover (text file: 75KB) (overall version)
・Cover-Chapter 1 (text file: 20KB)
・Chapter 2 (Text file: 11KB)
・Chapter 3 (Text File: 21KB)
・Materials-back cover (text file: 22KB)

Cover-back cover (text file: 9KB) (summary version)

For development, we carried out citizen opinion offer for Yokohama-shi library vision (draft) from December, 2023 to January, 2024 and devised Yokohama-shi library vision (original draft) based on opinion that had .

PDF data
Yokohama City Library Vision (original draft) Booklet / Collective Download (PDF: 5,702KB)

　About Yokohama-shi library vision (draft), we carried out citizen opinion offer from December, 2023 to January, 2024 and had 273 copies, 673 views. Thank you very much for your valuable comments.
　As we summarized conduct result and way of thinking as city for opinion, we announce.
　The opinions received will be used as a reference when formulating the original draft, and will be used as a reference for future projects and initiatives.

Conduct result (including list of opinions) of citizen opinion offer about Yokohama-shi library vision (draft) (PDF: 1,757KB)

Based on the current situation and issues of Yokohama City Library, opinions and case studies of citizens received at civic workshops, etc., we formulated the Yokohama City Library Vision (draft). We raise opinions of citizen's all of you to hear voice of citizen's all of you about draft widely.

Based on opinion from citizen's all of you who had, we devise and announce Yokohama-shi library vision by the end of the year in future.

At each of the following facilities, you can see the Yokohama City Library Vision (draft) booklet version. We do not distribute the booklet version.

• Yokohama City Library・Book agency(The entire building will be closed from Monday, December 25, 2023 to Sunday, January 14, 2024)
• Public Relations Section, each district
• Citizen Information Center(3rd floor of Yokohama City Hall)

The following facilities distribute only the Yokohama City Library Vision (draft) summary version.

• District center (outside site)
• Community Care Plaza
• Local child care support base　
• Administrative service corner　

＊As there were some places where characters were not displayed on page 32 of the booklet version, as of 4:30 pm on Friday, December 15, 2023, the booklet version / batch download, and Chapter 3 This vision formulation process (PDF) has been replaced.

Booklet / Split Download

From Thursday, December 14, 2023 to Sunday, January 21, 2024

Please send us your opinions and suggestions in one of the following ways.

Please access the online input form (outside site) of the Yokohama City Electronic Application and Notification System and enter it.

Please specify (1) required items below and send it to the address in (2).
(1)required items [5 items]
　　①Name, 2s, 3 Address (residential district only), 4 items to be submitted and posted pages, 5 "Opinions to Yokohama City Library Vision"
　Please send it after clearly stating.

(2)Please specify required items in (1) and send it to one of the following:
　　Email: ky-seisaku@city.yokohama.jp
　　FAX: 045-663-3118
　　Mail: In the case of mail, the postmark will be valid on Sunday, January 21, 2024. Please pay the shipping fee.
　　　　　〒231-0005 6-50-10, Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi
　　　　　City of Yokohama, Board of Education Secretariat Secretariat, Education Policy Promotion Division, Library Vision

・Please note that we will not be able to accept telephone or verbal comments because we need to accurately understand your comments.
・Your feedback will be used as a reference for formulating your vision. Except for personal information, we will summarize the outline of your opinion and the way of thinking of Yokohama City for it, and announce it on the Yokohama City website at a later date. Please note that we will not respond individually.
・Personal information such as name and Address acquired upon submission of your opinion will be properly managed in accordance with the provisions of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and will be used only for the purpose of communication and confirmation of any questions regarding the content of your opinion.

In Yokohama City, we will investigate and examine the ideal way of the library as a place where all citizens, including the child-rearing generation, can spend a comfortable time, and formulate a library vision (tentative name). As part of this, we will hold an exchange meeting for citizens and others in the form of a workshop. Please let us know what you think.

（1） Schedule, etc.

（2） Targets
　　 Those who live, work, or attend school in the city (junior high school students and above)
（3） Number of applicants
　　 40 people each time (advance application / lottery)
　　 ※Free participation
　　 ※There are day care for the 2nd to 4th.
　　 ※The content is the same each time
（4） Contents
　　A. Explanation of today's workshop from the secretariat
　　B. Group work (consideration and compilation of the following)
　　　Oh　A library that makes you want to visit　
　　　Oh　Child care and library
　　　Oh　Creation of charm of town and library
　　C. Description
（5） Notes
　　・Group division is set by the secretariat in consideration of the balance of age groups.

（1） Application period
　　 From Friday, April 21, 2023 to Thursday, May 25, 2023
（2） How to apply
　　A Electronic Application Form
　　B. FAX　
　　　　Please apply using the application form on the back of the flyer. Or, please specify all of the following items before applying.
　　　　Oh Name (furigana)
　　　　Oh Participation request time (from the first to the fourth choice can be entered)
　　　　Oh Contact information for notification of lottery results, etc. (email address or fax)
　　　　Oh Phone number
　　　　Oh Residential area (specify Yokohama city or outside the city, and residents of the city must specify up to the ward name. If you live outside the city, specify the workplace or school where the school is located.)
　　　　Oh Themes of interest (used for grouping workshops)
　　　　→Select from "library that you want to go to", "child care and library", "creating charm of town and library" and enter (multiple)
　　　　Oh Request for childcare, sign language interpreter, and written interpreter (If you wish to take care of the child, specify the age and age of the child)
　　　　Oh Age of Participants
　　　　→Select from teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s or older.
　　　　Oh Whether you are currently raising a child (if you are raising a child, specify whether you are a preschool child or an elementary school student or older)
　　　　Oh Comments on the Future of Library
　　<Remarks>
　　　　・Duplicate application will be invalid. Winning may be invalid if the conditions listed in “1 (2) Targets in the Implementation Overview” are not met.
　　　　・You can apply only once per person. You will be able to participate only once at any venue.
　　　　・The collected personal information will be properly managed in accordance with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and will be used only for office work related to this business.
　　　　・On the day of the event, there is a possibility that photos will be taken by the press. Thank you for your understanding.
（3） Lottery Results
　　　Scheduled to be announced on Thursday, June 1
　　　・Participation and participation times will be notified to all applicants by e-mail or fax.
　　　・Regarding the lottery, we would like to receive opinions from people of a wide range of age groups, so we will consider the balance of the age structure.

A total of 134 people participated in the workshop and talked about the future of the library in Yokohama City.
Please see here for details on the day and details of the exchange of opinions.
Record of the day of the workshop (re-updated on August 30) (PDF: 6,264KB)

In Yokohama City, we conducted a citizen questionnaire in fiscal 2022 to improve services in City Library and understand the actual situation. The results of the questionnaire will be used as a reference for future library initiatives.
(Yokohama e Questionnaire: Implementation period: 1,335 respondents from Friday, November 11, 2022 to Friday, November 25, 2022)
(For child-rearing generations: Implementation period From Wednesday, January 4, 2023 to Tuesday, January 31, 2023, Number of respondents ：2,233 people)
(For group users and volunteers: Implementation period From Thursday, December 15, 2022 to Sunday, January 15, 2023, Number of respondents: 405)