Officially opening in August 2025, the Tủa Chùa commune Library holds about 5,000 book titles. Of these, 600 titles came from contributions from Mường Báng commune and Tủa Chùa town (the former Tủa Chùa district), and the remaining over 4,400 titles were donated by organizations and individuals from inside and outside the commune.

The library is managed by the Tủa Chùa commune General Services Center. In addition to books on natural science, social science, technology, and for children, the Tủa Chùa commune Library also has many reference titles such as encyclopedias, academic reference books, literature, art, history, and handbooks.

Inside the library, books are arranged on shelves by genre, making it convenient for readers to find them. To make it easier for readers to access and use books, newspapers, and documents for study, research, and entertainment, the library has a reading area arranged near the bookshelves and a separate reading room.

Nguyễn Văn Mạnh, Director of the Tủa Chùa commune General Services Center, said: “Besides the library systems at the schools, there are no other libraries or private bookstores in the commune. Therefore, since the commune library began operating, officials, residents, and young people and children have an additional place and space to read books, newspapers, and access and look up information.”

After nearly 3 months of operation, open three sessions per week, the Tủa Chùa commune Library serves about 100 regular visitors, who are students, officials, and residents in the commune.

Reading books the traditional way is the method that Hạng A Vang, a student in class 10A5 at Tủa Chùa High School, chooses to appreciate a book. Flipping through each page, slowly mulling over every word, helps Vang love books more and understand the work more deeply.

Vang shared: “Before, I mostly read books at the school library. Since the commune library opened, my friends and I have another place to read books and learn useful knowledge. Here, we can find books that the school library doesn’t have to look up more study materials in many subjects and genres. This helps us broaden our knowledge.”

According to Đỗ Thị Mỹ Hạnh, Principal of Tủa Chùa High School, although the school has its own library with over 2,000 diverse book titles, it organizes two reading sessions per week at the commune library for students. This is to allow students to access even more genres and, above all, to give them an additional, diverse reading space, thereby nurturing a love for books and forming a reading habit.

In addition to serving on-site readers, the Tủa Chùa commune Library also allows readers to borrow books and documents for free to take home for reading and research.

Nguyễn Văn Mạnh added: “To refresh and enrich the book titles, besides mobilizing books from the community, in the coming time the Tủa Chùa commune Library plans to coordinate with the provincial library to implement a book rotation exchange. This will enhance the delivery of books to readers.”

In the digital 4.0 age, the relentless development of science and technology has caused books to be seemingly forgotten, especially by young people. Faced with this reality, the establishment of the Tủa Chùa commune Library, with the goal of serving the community, has contributed to providing readers with a healthy community space. At the same time, it spreads the traditional reading culture, improves the people’s intellectual standards, and helps build a learning society in the commune.