What is classics? The answer is the logical starting point of basic theoretical research on the promotion of classic reading and of even reading by the whole society. This paper makes a multi-perspective inquiry of and conducts an in-depth discussion on “what is classics” from different perspectives such as classical exegetics, time and space view, classification view and literature view.

National Association of Scholars (NAS) has conducted an authoritative reading survey on the “Common Reading Program” of American colleges and universities since 2010. By studying annual reports since 2010, we analyze the institutes, the types and publication time of common reading books, the most frequently selected books, as well as expounding the characteristics of the “Common Reading Program”, and revealing its existing problems, so as

As the most active period of female reading in ancient China, a large number of female reading paintings emerged in the Qing Dynasty. This article tries to analyze the reasons of female reading paintings and explore the necessary premise of cultural and creative product development. From the perspective of literary background, artistic expression form, function and image meaning, this article analyzes the important conditions for developing the female reading paintings into cultural and creative products of the library, and seeks the concrete ways to expand the development of such cultural and creative products.