The second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan

Last Updated February 14, 2024

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Purpose of the second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan

　City of Yokohama, Board of Education Secretariat announced the "Second Yokohama Citizen Reading Activity Promotion Plan (draft)" to comprehensively promote the reading activities of all Yokohama citizens from infants to the elderly from 2019 to 5 and carried out citizen opinion offer.
　Based on citizen opinion, we devised "the second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan". In the future, based on this plan, ward offices, libraries, and schools will continue to promote reading activities throughout the region, making use of the cooperation base built in the first reading plan. The Board of Education promotes city-wide reading activities, such as working with private businesses to promote city-wide publicity activities and awareness-raising events for reading activities.

The second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan

The second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan (divided version) (PDF, text data)
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Section 1 In development of the second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan	Chapter 1 (PDF: 3,827KB)	Chapter 1 (Text file: 12KB)
	Chapter 2 (PDF: 3,895KB)	Chapter 2 (Text file: 47KB)
Section 2 Second Reading Plan	Chapter 1 (PDF: 1,319KB)	Chapter 1 (Text file: 2KB)
	Chapter 2 (PDF: 1,231KB)	Chapter 2 (Text file: 4KB)
	Chapter 3 (PDF: 1,984KB)	Chapter 3 (Text file: 24KB)
Materials	Related laws and regulations (PDF: 1,314KB)	Related laws and regulations (text file: 16KB)
	Initiatives of each ward (PDF: 21,813KB)	Approach of each ward (text file: 31KB)
	Citizen opinion offer result summary (PDF: 939KB)	Citizen opinion offer result summary (text file: 2KB)

Second Reading Activity Promotion Plan [Overview]
PDF version	Text Data Version
Outline of the plan (PDF: 33,950KB)	Plan outline (text file: 11KB)

Press release (planning)

Press release document (we devised "the second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan"!)
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Press release document (PDF: 1,140KB)	Press release document (text file: 3KB)

The second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan PR video

The video on this page was created in November 2020.

Whole version

Opening-Priority Item 1 "Promotion of reading activities according to the stage of child development"

Priority item 2 “Promotion of Adult Reading Activities and Expansion of Leaders”

Priority item 3 “Strengthening and coordinating bases for reading activities”

Priority item 4 "Promotion of reading activities according to the regional characteristics of the ward"-Ending

Conduct result of civic opinion offer for the second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan (draft), draft

Second Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan (draft)

[Text Version]

Implementation result of public opinion offer for draft

[Opinion solicitation period]
From September 18 to October 17, 2019

[Number of submissions]
69 submissions, 273 opinions
About opinion that we had and way of thinking of Motoichi for it, please see from citizen opinion offer result (PDF: 589KB).

Achievement of Performance Indicators (as of February 2024)

Achievement status of performance indicators Priority item 1 Promotion of reading activities according to the stage of child development (goal: establishment of children's reading habits)
Performance Indicators	Initial value	2019	2020	2021	2022	Target value
①Promotion of utilization of school libraries in elementary and junior high schools a Number of visitors (average value)	11,350 people	10,674 people	8,536 people	8,209 people	8,850 people	11,500 people
①Promotion of utilization of school libraries in elementary and junior high schools b Number of books borrowed (average value)	7,565 books	6,893 books	7,228 books	7,149 books	7,293 books	7,600 books
①Promotion of utilization of school libraries in elementary and junior high schools Percentage of elementary school studenｔ students who answered that they like school libraries.	70.6%	71.3%	No figures ※１	79.3% ※２	78.5%	72.0%
②"I'm reading" in the day Percentage of elementary and junior high school students who responded [Elementary school students]	70.5%	69.9%	No figures ※１	74.8% ※２	75.4%	71.0%
②"I'm reading" in the day Percentage of elementary and junior high school students who answered [Junior high school students]	54.9%	53.7%	No figures ※１	62.1% ※２	59.1%	55.0%

※1 The survey was canceled due to the temporary closure of the school due to the state of emergency.
※2 In the 2021 survey, 70% of the number of schools responded due to the revision of the Yokohama City Academic Achievement and Learning Status Survey.

Achievement status of performance indicators Priority item 2 Promotion of adult reading activities and expansion of leaders (goal: promotion of adult reading activities)
Performance Indicators	Initial value	2019	2020	2021	2022	Target value
Number of books lent in the library (In other cities through mutual use of wide area (Including loans to Yokohama citizens)	10.96 million books	10.38 million books	8.89 million books	11.6 million books	12.2 million books	11 million books

Achievement status of achievement indicators Priority items 2 Promotion of adult reading activities and expansion of leaders (goal: expansion of leaders in promoting reading activities)
Performance Indicators	Initial value	2019	2020	2021	2022	Target value
②Total number of volunteer activities such as reading and reading (a) Total number of projects in cooperation with libraries)	4,072 people	3,630 people	956 people	1,511 people	2,386 people	4,200 people
②Total number of volunteer activities such as reading and reading (b) Average number of people per building for citizen use facilities *)	26. 6 people/building	24.0 people/building	7. One person/house	12.9 people/building	16.8 / Building	30. One person/house

※District center, community house, social education corner, local child care support base, community care plaza

Achievement status of performance indicators Priority items 3 Strengthening and coordinating bases for reading activities (goal: promotion of book utilization in cooperation with local communities and schools)
	Initial value	2019	2020	2021	2022	Target value
Total	95,404 books	87,643 books	62,208 books	76,233 books	83,279 books	99,000 books
Group lending	49,768 books	47,151 books	27,201 books	38,283 books	48,525 books	―
Loans to schools	45,636 books	40,492 books	35,007 books	37,950 books	34,754 books	―

Performance index Promotion of reading activities according to the regional characteristics of priority items 4 wards (goal: promotion of reading activities according to the regional characteristics of the ward)
	Initial value	2019	2020	2021	2022	Target value
Promotion of reading activities according to the regional characteristics of the city	Continued promotion	Continued promotion	Continued promotion	Continued promotion	Continued promotion	Continued promotion

About past plans

Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan

Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan (summary version) (PDF: 1,106KB)
Yokohama citizen book-reading activity promotion plan (main body) (PDF: 999KB)

Promotion plan for children's reading activities

Second Yokohama-shi child book-reading activity promotion plan
Promotion plan for Yokohama Children's Reading Activities

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