The paper notes the importance of cities in economic and social development. It discusses the characteristicsof ‘smart cities’ and some of the roles that libraries and information services may contribute to their development. It pointsto the need for ‘smart librarians’ in all libraries, and emphasises not only the high level of skills and commitment required, but also the need for them to demonstrate that libraries do make a difference and to ensure that that is well understood by thedecision makers in corporations and government.

This article points out that the traditional digital divide has been narrowing, whilst the new digital dividehas emerged. It analyzes the reason why the new digital divide has emerged, introduces a couple of the new digitaldivide′s dominating expression forms, and concludes with macroscopic solutions pertaining to the new digitaldivide.

With the innovation and development of the society management system, more and more social organizationsparticipate in the public service areas of library. Society organizations play the roles of service provider, valuationadvocacy, resource integration, and communication platform in the public service of the library. But also are faced withsome problems, such as the legality, lack of trust and resources, insufficient capacity and other issues. To promote socialorganizations to participate in library public services, the government, libraries and social organizations should cooperatetogether.

Information fluency is one of the quality of citizens in 21st century, and is one of the goals of education. It′s noaccident, but has a profound historical background and a solid theoretical foundation. The paper do an in-depth investigationand analysis on its times background and its theoretical background of information fluency, and research information fluencywith the concept of development and extension of the connotation, summed up its competency standards, in order to makepreliminary preparations to further explore the mode of information fluency education.

Reading guide of literature association refers to librarian’s work of guiding users on combining relativeliteratures from different academic areas, carriers or media, according to users’ requirement. The variety of structuresof literature association is due to different academic area and various ways of communication of literature. Librarians, therefore, are required to be more qualified to offer this guidance. They must be equipped with wider view to enable themto understand interdisciplinary and cross-culture subjects, and they are ought to be more responsible and qualified withmore comprehensive academic skills. Based on this, reading guide of literature association can be raised to its ideal state, in which users can always match their knowledge structure with structure of literature association generated from variousacademic areas perfectly.

From the definition and connotation of contemporary information services, the article analyzed informationservice model elements and its relationships. On this basis, discussed characteristics and their applicabilityof three models: display type, push type and interaction type. Finally, an example was given.

Because of its effectiveness in demonstration the quantity and quality of a researcher′s publications, the statisticaltable of papers indexed and cited is being demanded by more and more awarding and funding projects. However, counting the exact number of citing journals or citing authors proves to be difficult. To solve these problems, a procedureof document merging method combined with Excel advanced filter function was discussed in this paper. In addition, a newmethod to improve the efficiency of database retrieving and data processing work by using reference manager tool EndNoteWeb was also introduced.

Reader demand is a major basis of literature acquisition. This paper analyzes content and character of readerdemand, puts forward methods and ways under investigation of reader demand. Finally it analyzes influence and effect onthe decision of literature acquisition from the aspects of basic information of readers, statistical information of literaturecirculation, subjective intention information of readers and reader recommendation system of literature.

The global debate of entire public library outsourcing focuses on its impact on public benefit, librarianship profession, staffs and the continuity of library service. On Sep. 2011, the Xintang Town Library (Zengcheng City, Guangdong, China), which has contracted out its management and service entirely to a book sales company and a book service company, opened to the public. The investigations of the manager, staffs and readers show that the library provides modernized servicewith relatively high quality. Except for the issue of the continuity of library service which is remained to be observed, itseffort for public benefit and professional service are appreciated by readers. Moreover, the staffs work in stable positions.Some scholars′ worries did not be proved in this case study.

It is very important to do subject analysis based on the information requirement in subject reference service.This paper chooses and integrates various information analysis software and methods in order to find an optimal model onsubject information analysis which has a well-defined goal.

Libraries must obtain authorization from database venders if they want to carry out long-term preservation ofdigital resources. According to database group purchasing proposals of CALIS/DRAA from 2007 to early 2012, we analyzedthe number, ways and the specific content of our universities digital preservation trading. We also analyzed the problems bycomparing the analysis results with the policies of libraries and the policies of database venders. In the end, we put forwardsome suggestions for improvement.

This paper discusses the uses of Quick Response (QR) codes in mobile library marketing and develops a systemto track the scans of QR codes by library users for assessment. Librarian popularize mobile library service through QRcode technology, based on the posted places made into different QR pictures handing in the form of box, readers can scanthem with the cell phone′s camera and decoded installed software easily and recognize the corresponding URL, then turn to themobile library website. Different posted points, different QR codes pictures, however, they display the same real WAP sites.This is done for the assessment of marketing effectiveness, statistical scanning of each posted point and time, and the investigationof the use of the mobile library service, we design and develop the utility assessment system through the integrationof IT and mobile library marketing for the QR code marketing effectiveness assessment.

This paper follows the development concept of information and energy flow, transformation and update inthe library ecological system, and purposes to innovate service mode in order to develop a library mobile applicationbased on Android named iLibrary. This application realizes information fusion of several library collections, creates aknowledge sharing platform, meanwhile it also mixes the network information into the library services, innovates theforms and contents of library information services.

Our qualitative study in Catalan universities shows that academic researchers now are reading more andmore widely. However, their reading is becoming more superficial. The electronic accessibility of journals means that webbrowsing and table of contents (TOC) e-mail alerts are replacing physical browsing, and web searching is a very popularoption for them to keep up with new developments. Internet search engines, especially Google and Google Scholar, arebecoming important sources of information for researchers. However, academic researchers face problems in managingtheir personal scientific information.

Western publications on Chinese Studies in Sun Yat-sen University came from Lingnan University library which had built the special collection in 1917 and had 2, 049 items and 311 kinds of western journals on China in the April of 1938. In these western publications, 123 volumes and 12 journals were listed in Check List of Important Western Books on China prepared by Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University. Sun Yat-sen University Libraries have 886 kinds of the western publications, and the features of the collections are that: (1) 18 volumes are published before 1840 and very important for bibiology and academic research; (2) 103 volumes are on agriculture, living things, geology and medicine of China, and represent the highest level of these researches at the time; (3) 62 volumes are research works on South China, many of which are rare editions within the country even in 1930s.

Mr.Shao Zuping, a prolific scholar with his mastering the knowledge of Chinese ancient books and meticulousscholarship, was diligent and assiduous all his life, devoted himself to the studies of Chinese culture. His masterpiece‘Pei Feng Building Poems’ won the 1st Prize of literature and arts (1942) organized by the Review Committee on Ministryof Education of National Government. His early monograph ‘On China′s Observation of People’ obtained both highacclaim and preface written by Zhang Taiyan. This article introduces the content and publication matters of Shao Zupingmanuscripts in China’s Cultural Celebrities’ Manuscripts Library, Shanghai Library with the intent of showing distinctlythe precious value of Shao’s manuscripts.