The author reveals two big issues about RDA in this paper. The first one is that RDA was developed to meet the challenges of the digital environment and places a heavy emphasis on the use in the large-scale computer processing of data. The second one is for describing RDA’s internationalization and interoperability of data beyond the single language and cultural contexts.

The article makes a quantitative study of the visualization presentation of the scientometrics visualization research papers in mainland China from the aspects of the publishing years, article type,source journals, institution, chart type, the tools of drawing knowledge map and social network. The authors detect similar characteristics of these research papers, namely, the simplification of visualization tools, poor visualization effect and shortage of theory innovation.

When libraries provide service for users, but involve copyrights, they should shoulder responsibilities of protecting copyright holders’ interests as well, despite their legitimate right of using the literature in the meantime. Furthermore, whether libraries have assumed some obligations has become an important criterion of determining whether they infringe the copyrights or not. The paper analyzes several cases and clarifies the responsibilities and obligations of libraries, such as deleting links of infringement, putting up warnings of copyright infringement, obligations when signing contracts, fair use and statutory license.

Based on the idea of quality control circle, the topic for retrieval course was determined in a graduate academic information literacy class. A questionnaire survey was used to understand the level of students’ academic information literacy, and causes of such literacy skills were explored. Furthermore,AHP method was applied to allocate teaching time and tasks, and training approaches were developed.After a round of quality control circle practice, the measurable index of academic information literacy improved by 12.8%. Accordingly, the standardized system of literature retrieval class for graduate students was summarized, and provides a basis for further practices.

Based on the analysis of current research on digital copyright protection, the paper defines the connotation of digital copyright protection. Through studying the main functions of universal DRM, basic usage scenarios and interaction model, it advocates the fact that universal DRM is actually the protection technology for digital content by encrypting, which greatly inhibited eBook piracy from terminal. Sanxin DRM models, built on universal DRM, not only maximize the advantages of the universal DRM, which makes content publishers directly control the keys and trace authorization codes, but also possess a wide range of features, such as great commonality, high safety, and wide application.

ECIP, namely, to achieve “automatic cataloging” of Chinese books in the publishing process,deals with electronic texts before printing. In other words, it is the digitization and networking of cataloging.By comparing the development process of ECIP in China and United States, this paper summarizes the research status of ECIP, and clearly points out that three problems ECIP program may encounter. It then puts forward the corresponding countermeasures: simplifying fields, rengthening communication and improving standards.

With the continuous development of cross-straits relations, Chinese periodicals published in Taiwan are collected by an increasing number of libraries in mainland China, as an important documentary and informational resource. These periodicals are published freely, and the publishing takes a variety of forms, presenting new challenges to CNMARC description for periodicals. Combining with the daily cataloging practices of these periodicals, the author analyses the existing problems on CNMARC description for these collections and puts forward solutions after the case study.

The broad content of the description of the 517 field and cataloguers’ narrow understanding of its definition have led to its misuse. According to the definition of 517 field itself and combining the rules of 5- related title block, the title of 517 field should have the function of retrieval, differ from proper title,be unspecific type, and describe the cataloguing literature.

Library microblogging marketing is an integrated marketing, soft marketing and welfare marketing. The article compared microblogging marketing with the traditional library marketing, and expounded and evaluated advantages of the former in terms of costs, audience reach, affinity index. It also proposed to enhance the microblogging marketing performance by utilizing celebrities, interactions,events, service, and so forth.

The features of database structure and database object are becoming more various and complex in the era of big data, which made database retrieval more challenging. Indexing is an efficient way to improve the database retrieval. By using bibliometrics and content analysis method and combined with correlational research, this paper divided the development of database index into four stages. It analyses the background and lists the representative viewpoints in terms of theory and technology in each stage. It then summarizes the trend of the research of database index compilation, and points the features, namely,diversity, in-depth, intelligent and visualization.

In the age of digital publishing, the digital index is the trend of back-of-the-book index. The proportion of digital index of back-of-the-book will be more than that of the paper index, but the paper index will remain to be the basic work for a period of time. This study argues that we need promote the index digital hierarchically, and also puts forward three ways to develop it, namely, to determine the priority type for index compilation, to develop the industrial chain of back-of-the-book indexing and to attach importance to the index research and practices of international communication.

This paper discusses the definition of manuscripts and scientific manuscripts, summarizes the academic value, literature value and historical value of scientific manuscripts. As scientific manuscripts have characteristics of both literature and archives, their organization could be conducted with organization principles of both library and archives. Therefore, a scientific manuscripts organizing method is designed,which contains six steps from selecting the level of arrangement, assigning unique ID, and classifying category to designing metadata model, determining access points, and cataloging. The whole process makes scientific manuscripts searchable and usable online. At last, the practices of T. D. Lee Archives Online are given as an example to illustrate the organizing approach of scientific manuscripts.

By discussing the study of the main information discovery systems in China, this paper analyses the methods of integration and organization of information resources. Based on metadata pre-index and metadata repository, information discovery systems realize the integration and organization of information
resources by harvesting and transforming metadata records from various resources. The real information resources “discovery” is to realize the data relationship based on knowledge and through mining the internal relationship between information resources. Therefore, it needs to build up a framework of information
resource organization and deep aggregation based on metadata repository, and realize the organization and aggregation of information resources from the semantic level.

The special resources are precious to the library. They are the embodiment of library characteristics and individuality. These resources’ existence depends on a variety of media. Visualization technology is a useful method for displaying and revealing recourses, and could make it easier for users to understand and use resources by means of multiple media. Taking Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library Tsung Dao (T.D.) Lee Archives Online’s digital multiple media as an example, this paper expounds how to use the visualization technology and method to exhibit six different kinds of special resources.

This paper is the survey report issued by Defra and Arts Council England. Through the investigation of libraries in 8 pilot areas, like Buckinghamshire, the report analyzed the nature of library service changes in Britain rural areas, and explored challenges and opportunities of those changes. It finally discusses how to construct the comprehensive, effective and sustainable library service, which will satisfy to local demands in the rural areas.

By introducing those important measures taken by IFLA in the international arena in recent years, as well as the history of Chinese libraries participating in the IFLA events and programs, this article intends to analyze and explore the great possibility of Chinese libraries participating in IFLA in future.Meanwhile, it also provides cooperative suggestions in various aspects, such as how to effectively apply and hold the IFLA Annual Meeting and participate in the IFLA Core Program.

Tu Long is an important and prolific poet and dramatist in the Ming Dynasty. Tu Long’s collection published by Zhejiang Classics Publishing House is the complete collection of his works at present. However, some were still not collected because Tu Long had a large circle of acquaintances and made lots of poems and articles as gifts to others. The article found out 4 prefaces and 2 poems which were not collected by Tu Long’s collection and gave corresponding explanation and textual research to the figures and historical facts in these materials. These works have some value in the study of Tu Long’s life,acquaintanceship and literary thought.

This paper provides some supplements and corrections based on the Collected Works of Women in the Qing Dynasty, for the book Chronology of the Qing People written by Mr. Jiang Qingbai. A total of 20 women’s year of birth or death are made update.

This paper introduces a few of approaches by which librarians promote knowledge flow,such as the release of knowledge, and knowledge association, knowledge dredging, building the space of knowledge flows, the opening of knowledge, and knowledge sharing. It claims that knowledge will be powerful only when it flows. Accordingly, libraries could also break through the competitive “Red Ocean”,and create the free “Blue Ocean”.