This paper discusses how to define data and facts in the digital reading era, and how digital reading paper reading in multiple dimensios. It analyzes the characteristics of digital reading, namely, advancedness, permeability and practicality. The article also elaborates on the ethics and morality of digital reading, as well as its current and potential functions.

Reading promotion has become the most interesting service in public library. It development is attributed to public’s attention to reading problems, the leading role assumed by Library Society of China, and service innovation of public library. In recent years, the reading promotion of public library presents four trends: reading promotion becomes more frequent; regional difference decreases; all departments within library take shares in reading promotion; and information technology is being widely used in reading promotion.

The main task of public library is collecting, preserving and promoting local literature. It provides cultural service and knowledge. Based on this task, library becomes cultural center and spiritual ranch for the users. This paper reveals ideal library in the author’s mind.

This paper introduces reading method of Zhu Geliang and Tao Yuanming, so as to prove the importance of inspectional reading for the readers nowadays, and summarizes four basic skills and five methods.

Wittgenstein analyzed the activity of reading in great depth in Philosophical Investigations. This paper elaborates on Wittgenstein’s reading theory.

There is a difference between the “educational view” and the “neutral view” in perceiving library reading promotion. Such a difference in values originates from a historical clash among thoughts of library philosophy, and is represented by some international organizations in their statements concerning social roles of library. The main goal of reading promotion should be arousing the reading interest of readers. Reading promotion activities can be divided into three categories. Libraries should adopt appropriate value strategies based on the category of reading promotion activities, and adjust the strategies flexibly according to the effect of reading promotion activities.

Vice chairman of the Central Committee Zhu Yongxin pointed out in My View on Reading: a person’s spirittual history is his reading history. Reading makes children enter an abstract world of the knowledge, and becomes an important part of their mental development, which is key to the growth as a whole. This paper studies the important role of reading for children from the perspectives of physiology, psychology, sociology, education and library science, with the purpose of providing guidance for children’s reading from diverse angles.

The paper reviews the background of children’s reading in the period of Republic of China, focuses on children’s reading interest, reading ability and reading guidance as revealed by the researches of that period, It summarizes the advanced ideas and experience in order to provide references for China’s contemporary children’s reading work.

Reading therapy bibliography is the core and key link to implement reading therapy, and is closely related to the reading therapy effect. This paper summarizes and analyses the research status of domestic reading therapy bibliography through the analysis of literature and bibliographic development, in order to provide valuable reference for future.

Oral reading and aural reception have incomparable value and advantages over other ways of reading, whereas its demands are increasing among library patrons. Yet it is rarely available in library. This paper mainly discusses how to use the We-Media environment and technology to tap the initiative of and encourage the participation of readers, to build such a sharing platform for oral reading and aural reception, and thereby to expand the public influence of library.

The article analyzes the general situation and evolution path of Taiwan’s book clubs for the past 30 years, and finds that the universal promotional campaign can’t be sustained even with the full support of policies and resources from the Taiwan authorities; rather, the book clubs operated by libraries, schools and other non-governmental organizations show great vitality. Throughout the evolution of the Taiwan book club, f inds it has made efforts to slove three problems: breaking through the development bottleneck of private book clubs, correctly positioning the role of government in promoting the book clubs, and aggregating the social forces to promote book clubs.

Taking theme collection exhibition of Hainan Medical College Library as an example, the article introduces the practices and derivative activities of the library. On the basis of practices, it taps theoretical conclusions: how to explore “The Long Tail” books and how to analyze questionnaires on theme collection exhibitions. It concludes that the efforts of selecting a topic, carefully selecting the books, displaying in a concentrated way, and “seeking the readers for books and seeking the books for readers” are the keys to awake “sleeping” books, substantive steps to promote reading, effective methods to utilize printed materials in the era of digital shallow reading, as well as important channels to promote traditional deep reading. It is operational and thus worth of popularization.

In recent years, libraries have been attaching more importance to reading promotion activities, and reading promotion are taking continuously innovative forms. This paper provides an introduction to the activity “Passport to Knowledge” carried out in the library of Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA), with which a series of related reading activities can be integrated to make reading promotion more effective and fun. “Passport to Knowledge” gradually becomes a brand. It is hoped that sharing the practice will be helpful in exploring new forms of reading promotion.

Based on the national citizen reading report data for the past three years, this article illustrates the “shallow reading” nowadays when reading is popular, and anlyzes its subjective and objective reasons. Then, it dialectically discusses the “deep” and “shallow” reading on the part of students inelite and nonelite universities, from three aspects including the polarization of reading, the non-academic reading and the disproportion of resource acquisition.

Reading is an important way to acquire knowledge and broaden the vision of children, so promotion of reading in children is significant. County public library is the important position in urban and rural areas to promote the nationwide reading activity. According to Ruian Library in recent years in children’s reading promotion activities, the paper put forward several thoughts and suggestions for the promotion of children’s reading activities.

In order to meet the needs of students for classical works and professional reading, the library of Hebei Normal University, in cooperation with departments and office of academic affairs, sorted out a bibliography for professional learning. Taking “Reading of the Classics in the New Technical Environment” as the theme, it conducted activities with the tools of iPad, two-dimensional code and other ,digital media to promote reading in a lively way that emphasized enjoyable reading experience on the part of readers. It greatly stimulated the students’ interest in reading, and effectively improved the utilization of library resources as well as its services.

This paper surveys patrons’ needs of library mobile reading service in terms of usage profile, hardware service, content service, reading experience and factors influencing such a service. As the survey reveals, mobile reading has been adopted by young people widely in China. Secondly, Patrons prefer content service to hardware service. For hardware service, in-library use is favored over loan, while for content service, downloading and digital loan are favored over streaming. Thirdly, most of the policies concerning library ebook service are badly received by patrons. Content display that allows for zooming and/or text flowing, and functionalities including tags, notes, and dictionary have caught patrons’ attention. Finally, this paper finds wireless network, content, and usability exert strong influence over mobile reading service.

This paper introduces series of library reading promotion activities aiming at nurturing and cultivating the love of reading in children and young adults in U.K., U.S.A. and Singapore. It analyzes and expounds typical cases of reading promotion services there, and study them from the perspectives of theory and practices. It is hoped that such experience can be used as reference to improve the children’s and young adults’ reading promotion activities in China.

Aggregation of Series of Chinese Ancient Books contains the most extensive catalogues with authoritative stylistic rules and layout, which is a essential reference book for the researchers in compiling and studying ancient books. Owing to its complex stylistic rules and layout, a large number of the books referred to as well as the different collections, it inevitably has omissions and errors. This paper is based on these corrections. in the course of the author’s consulting and using.

The Wilderness: A Mental File of a Patient of Depression is a new work of the famous contemporary writer Li Lanni, a patient with severe depression. This paper analyzes the unique structure of the book and the associated reading therapy, which involves more than 30 books that are helpful to depression. Combining Li Lanni’s personal feeling, it analyzes the mechanism of reading therapy, discusses the important role of reading therapy for Li Lanni against depression, and concludes that the book could be regarded as an empirical archive for reading therapy.