Life :: The Small House Fostering a Great Future

The Mirae (Future) Library in Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang, is housed in a cosy building of a medium size. It was refurnished as the first IT-based library in the city two years ago to serve as a centre for making all people well-versed in science and technology.

In recent years the library has increased its book stock two times and stocked its e-data base with millions of books. Some time ago optical fibre cables were laid on for exclusive use of the library and all conditions were provided for readers to contact the state computer network and the distance-learning networks of all universities and colleges. And it was connected to the sci-tech diffusion room of the recently-erected Sci-Tech Complex so that necessary sci-tech data could be obtained from it at any time. It is visited by people of all units in the district and workers, office staffs, housekeepers, old people, and students and schoolchildren.

Pak Mi Hyang, nurse of the Mangyongdae District People’s Hospital, is attending the distance-learning course of the Pyongyang Medical College of Kim Il Sung University and an active reader of the library. She often comes to the library near her house on her way home from work. She is very inquiring by nature and is fond of spending more of her time in the library. No more than a reading place before, the library has now turned into a school. She says, “Mirae Library. How good the name is. Though it is housed in a small building, whenever I enter it, I often feel like coming into a wide and wonderful world I used to dream of.”