This paper analyzes the five relations of the smart library, including a new round of scientific and technological revolution, intelligent library, digital library (hybrid library), blended library, public library cultural service systemetc., the paper analyzes the relationship and difference between the five.

With changes of the information service environment and expansion of e-book industry chain,the role of libraries in the books service has changed enormously. As a major provider of reading services,libraries need to keep pace with the times, and actively integrate themselves into the e-book industry chain by providing readers with e-book reading service of better quality. This paper investigates into the status of commercial and library e-book services, analyzes their problems and advantages, and builds a new e-book service model for libraries from the perspective of industry chain.

The paper summarizes the theories and practices of reading promotion, analyzes the existing types and features, and defines the concepts of reading promotion and library reading promotion from the perspectives of basic classifying principles and key factors.

Focusing on e-book App through questionnaires, the paper studies the satisfaction rate of users from the perspectives of content, interface design, interactive services, charging model and payment. The results show that, among the five selected factors, only the charging model has significant impacts on
satisfaction, whereas others are extreme significant. All factors explain of the satisfaction rate of 65%, but each is closely related in the meantime, hence negative assessment of one factor will reduce the overall satisfaction rate of the App as a whole.

Most of the library scientists and linguistics regard that the Chinese word “tú shū guǎn (library)” was borrowed from the Japanese word during the modernization period of the late Qing Dynasty.“Tú shū guǎn” first appeared in China in an article by Japanese ZhenJi on Shiwu Newspaper in 1896.
However, our discovery indicates its mistake. We found the Chinese word “tú shū guǎn” appeared in Huang Tingjian’s poetry in the Song Dynasty, as well as in Li Jian’s poetry during Emperor Qian Long’s reign in the Qing Dynasty. These two examples effectively falsify the previous assumption.

As the concepts of ‘‘learning society’’ and ‘‘national reading are included into national development strategy, the whole society is eager to promote reading with more actors joining in the efforts to promote learning through books. During the Shanghai Citizens’ Art Festival 2016, public libraries,educational organizations, civil organizations and community centers were selected as the major actors of reading promotion. The paper compares the four types of entities and analyses their advantages and difficulties from the perspectives of target audience, promotion concept, organizational operation, activity
strategies, and performance assessment. It thus concludes that cooperation and alliance are necessary among the four heterogeneous actors.

Against the backdrop of prospering reading promotion activities of library on grass-root level, the reading promotion case of “One Book, One Community” in the United States is being detailed analyzed, from its history, development and influence. The paper also introduces how it acquires partners,
selects books, conduct publicity, discussion, and evaluation. Drawing upon the successful experience of the program, it is proposed that library should be the major player for reading promotion. With the help of active social participants, associations, and organizations, library should standardize the process, select the most appropriate collections, acquire sufficient funds, and support promotions with well-built websites.Villages and communities should be prioritized and sustainable development conducted to achieve the goal of nationwide reading.

The paper studies the micro-blog accounts of 113 “211 Project” university libraries in terms of their reading recommendation service, which concludes that innovation, uniqueness, and user-friendliness are nowhere to be seen. It thus puts forward six recommendations for future improvement.

Living library activities should not be the result of wishful thinking or simple replica. The right opportunity, effective operation team, appropriate books, and unique features are the key factors of its success. Living library established by student associations should encourage variations, attach importance
to the process of “utilization”, and make efforts at externalizing tacit knowledge. The sincere evaluation and the wisdom of living books will fully demonstrate the value and prospects of living libraries.

Take an aggressive child reader as an example, the paper designs a personalized reading “prescription” that meets the characteristics of the child in question. It compares his behaviors before and after the therapy to evaluate the impact of bibliotherapy.

This paper investigates the subject guides of library and information science based on LibGuides in mainland China. It studies the status quo of LIS guide from organization, structure and resources, paying special attention to books and journals, organization and association, retrieval tools and database, online courses and academic blogs. It summarizes the shortcomings in subject development, and hopes to provide reference for future work.

The study on co-authorship network has always been an important research direction in the field of information science. Adopting the social network analysis (SNA) research methods, the authors build three computing models of co-authorship network respectively according to three weighted elements
such as networking intensity, individual author’s contribution, and co-authorship influence. They then compare and analyze the network graph, centrality analysis, subgroup analysis and core-periphery analysis through an empirical research. The study finds out that the weighted factors have an impact on the point centrality, core-periphery structure, and the connection strength of network graph, but do not affect the betweenness centrality, the closeness centrality, the cohesive subgroups, or the structure of network graph.

With the improvement of wireless communication network and the popularity of mobile devices, mobile library, as a new model of library service, has attracted researchers’ attention. Enhancing user experience with and willingness to use mobile library have important practical significance for the
latter’s future development. This paper introduces the theoretical knowledge of user experience on mobile library, based on the model of user experience, and discusses the user experience model of mobile library.By surveying the users of mobile library in Changzhou University using structural equation model, it analyzes the main factors that affect user experience, based on the related research conclusions. Some feasible suggestions have also been put forward to enhance user experience and promote the development of mobile library in universities.

The infantile period is a critical time in one’s life. Due to the busy parents, the characteristics of infant growth and other factors, the literacy education in this period is easy to be ignored. Literature review and web-based investigation are used to exposit the early literacy promotion practices of American public libraries in two aspects.It draws four positive lessons from the analysis: first, to focus on systematicness of the early literacy promotion and make sure of the right role which public library shall play; second, to expand targeting and subdivide targeting; third,to focus on the multilateral supports from all society while mining the library resources to promote early literacy;and finally, to improve the regular services and try to provide a special service at the same time.

Digital reading is becoming an unstoppable trend. More and more university libraries are focusing on the innovation of reading promotion model from physical space to virtual space and hope to retain and guide users to use high-quality library resources and services efficiently. This paper introduces
the methods and experiences of reading promotion in University of Glasgow Library in terms of social media, library game application and librarianship improvement, summarizing some beneficial lessons for domestic academic libraries.

The relationship novels, flourishing in the middle of Ming dynasty, have a distinctive element in common: private garden as space for interactions among figures, which thus produces unique aesthetic charm and artistic effect, and gradually evolves into a kind of narrative expression. Garden and novel are
two types of art: space and time, whereas the merger of two forms a more primitive but aesthetic contrast: the “reality” of relationship vs. the “fantasy” of garden, the “mundanity” of relationship vs. the “elegance”of garden, and the “ethics” of relationship vs. the “lust” of garden.

American novel The Storied life of A.J.Fikry is a phenomenal popular bestseller over the globe. The book is about the life of a little bookstore owner, who is passionate about books but experiences difficulties dealing with the day-to-day life after the death of his beloved wife in a car accident. This article, rather than another book review, tries to reveal the occupational quality of the hero from a different perspective. To some extent, a bookstore acts like a library, and all the good qualities exhibited in the bookstore owner A.J.Fikry and the publisher sales representative Amelia are also very essential to all good
librarians: passionate about reading, keen to take notes, effective in communication, and ready to embrace new technology, to name just a few.The librarians should adapt themselves to the changing era and commit themselves to lifelong education to ensure the success of our career.

In The Library at Night, Alberto Manguel narrates the history of library development in vivid language with rich and interesting historical materials, putting forward his own points of view regarding the industry’s development. This book is a feast for professional librarians.

My Depression is an autobiographical picture book on depression by Elizabeth Swados,an American prestigious composer, playwright and director. She exposes to us the basics of depression,namely, symptoms, danger, causes, and countermeasures, from her own experience. Combining with other
successful case studies in bibliotherapy, the authors analyze the impact and effectiveness of bibliotherapy.They conclude that this book is a masterpiece that can help people get over depression.