Three Challenges to the High-Quality Development of China’s Librarianship

Abstract

Abstract:

In the past 40 years of reform and opening-up, especially since the beginning of the 21stcentury, China’s librarianship has got into a stage of rapid development. Many hardware indicators havereached or approached the international advanced level, but the new development environment marked byhigh-quality and the new technology environment led by digitization put forward new requirements for thenew round of development of the librarianship. Based on the relationship between library and technology,combined with three important discussions in the field of library in the past 50 years, namely, from“technology adapting to library” to “library adapting to technology”, from “serving readers in library” to“responding to the needs of social development”, and from “focusing on local development to expandingglobal vision”, this paper proposes three synchronization topics of high-quality development of China’slibrarianship: synchronization with technological development, synchronization with social development,and synchronization with global professional development. Finally, three issues that need to be tackledare put forward. Firstly, we should improve the visibility of local collections and thematic resources,making these resources accessible and shareable, and becoming part of the library-interconnected globalshared repository. Secondly, librarianship development should be integrated into the general developmentenvironment of information and communication technology, adapting to the information usage habits ofreaders and users, and making the global shared repository based on numerous libraries be part of thesocial information resource system. Thirdly, while learning from foreign counterparts with an open mind,we should make full use of our advantages and work hard to improve our voice in the development ofglobal librarianship.

Wu Jianzhong (University of Macau Library). Three Challenges to the High-Quality Development of China’s Librarianship[J]. Libraly Journal, 2023, 42(384): 18-23.

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