Three research trends of library studies in China since 2000 are introduced here, namely,speculative studies, empirical research and service innovation. Accordingly, three schools are formed that are oriented respectively on science, technologies and human beings, whereas policy research and reading
research are both available. The representative scholars and their works are briefly reviewed as well, which together builds a simple framework for understanding the library science in China since 2000.

The paper reviews existing study on knowledge fusion against the backdrop of big data,summarizes research status, and points out future research direction. Through literature analysis, the paper presents the research status, framework, algorithm and application of traditional knowledge fusion,
concluding with new needs of knowledge fusion in the times of big data. The research shows that the framework would emphasize more the knowledge cleaning, presentation and service; in terms of algorithm,the difference between information and knowledge should be considered; as for application, application across fields should be paid attention to.

This paper aims to explore the influence of “the principle of least effort” by George Kingsely Zipf on the Chinese library and information science. In this paper, we study all the literature in core LIS journals that mentions the principle. The results show that the influence of “the principle of least effort” is increasing at home and that it is mainly used to explain human information behavior.

Research funding agencies are key stakeholders in the process of opening access to scientific data. Using SHERPA website, this paper analyses these agencies from the perspectives of archiving time schedule, archiving location, and the main contents of policies. Based on the analysis of 30 funding agencies’ policies from 18 countries and regions, the study maps out the structure of their data policies, and provides some recommendations for future improvement, including clearly-designated responsibilities, emphasis on planning, and promoting awareness.

Chen Bokui is well-known library scientist in the 1920s and 1930s. Devoting himself to the sinicized reformation of western library science and library education, he witnessed the prosperity and decline of the library industry in Shanghai. Chen Bokui faded out in the 1940s, and enjoyed little
reputation in the present library circle. This paper makes a detailed study on relevant recourses about Chen Bokui, verifies his biography and some facts in library circle then, and acknowledges Chen’s significant contribution to library science with his library classification methods and activities in library education.

Objective: To develop information search self-efficacy scale for college students in China by evaluating statistical indexes such as reliability and validity of the preliminary information search self-efficacy scale. Methods: Firstly, we develop preliminary information search self-efficacy scale in accordance with the compile principle. We then assess 142 students against preliminary scale, revise the result, and form a final scale. 294 college students are analyze afterward. Results: The average popular rate of scale items is 0.43, around 0.50, whereas discrimination of each item reaches 0.4 or more. Factor
analysis shows that six factors are consistent with the designed factors of scale. Cronbach’s alpha of scale is 0.819. In addition to the “environment” factor, reliability of each dimension is greater than 0.70.Conclusion: The college students’ information search self-efficacy scale features good reliability and
validity.

Providing services based on users’ needs is a fundamental development strategy for library.Ethnographic method is an effective method to this end, and more than 40 overseas libraries have made relevant practices that led to certain results. By describing the process, findings and conclusions of a study
which applyies ethnographic methods to studying freshmen’s academic behaviors in Shanghai University,we try to localize the use of ethnographic methods in university library and explore ways for the integration of the library services with the users’ needs.

With the popularity of digital public libraries comes the important task of text-building of picture resource. This paper studies the issue of incorporating crowdsourcing into text-building. Firstly,professional evaluation should be carried out, and building strategies (e.g., transcription and proofreading)
as well as implementation methods (e.g., text input, CAPTCHA, games) need to be considered. The text contributed by volunteers must be checked. This paper summarizes three ways of checking, namely, human checking, checking based on guessing, and consistency checking. At last, four measures for ensuring textbuilding quality are discussed.

The authors try to improve the method of co-word analysis in this paper based on semantic distance. The paper adopts both semantic distance measure and concept matrices which generate from ontology-based concept mapping and semantic distance measure. It makes useful implications for coword
analysis based on semantic distance, and reveals the research situation preferable in terms of matrix dimensions and clustering results.

Based on web of science database, and adopting the method of bibliometrics, the paper conducts a visualization analysis of papers on social media published from 1995 to 2014, and displays social media development through knowledge map of hot keywords. At the same time it studies social
media evolution mechanism from the perspectives of computer science and management. The study discovers that: (1) themes around the basicsocial media knowledge are changing between 1995-2008 in the fields of computer science and management; (2) after 2009, with the rise of Facebook as the representative of a large number of social media tools, the two disciplines began to share some research themes regarding social media yet with different emphases; (3) collaborative learning is a frontier hot spot in the field of social media forfuture.

University libraries in North America are involved in digital publishing in five general ways:digital repository publishing, institutional repository publishing, open access journals publishing, funding open access publishing and digitizing special collections. This paper analyzes each way and compare
their similarities and differences in terms of content production, management process, product form,communication channel, opportunities and challenges.

On the basis of thoroughly collecting all editions of Thong Xi Ba Juan that could be found at present, the writer investigated all editions’ directories, photocopies, institution and private collections,then carefully compared all edition forms and text contents, listed characteristics of each version, and
judged them from different angles, which not only provides reliable evidence for research fellow to choose the edition they need, but also when checking current catalog results containing Thong Xi Ba Juan through comparing the catalog with real libraries collections, there are still various problems in catalog descriptions of Ba Juan Literature, which should be paid attention to by academic circles.

Shishiyaolanjiaozhu which was published by Zhonghua Book Company exists some problems such as editions were not comprehensive, several important editions were lacked, the source text was not correct. This paper makes some supplements of the editions and points out that collation of ancient books
should pay attention to the research of overseas Chinese classics.

Since 1938, the National Library of Peiping began to acquire precious literatures in the occupied areas. These precious literatures included YeshiYuan Yuan Dynasty Opera etc. Acquiring precious literatures of the occupied areas was a normal work for the National Library of Peiping in the Anti-Japanese
War. Acquiring precious literatures of the occupied areas faced with the lack of funds and being jealous and other difficulties. The National Library of Peiping made significant contributions for preserving quintessence of Chinese Culture in the Anti-Japanese War.

Tianwei, surrendered to the Song Dynasty as a Khitan and then became an officer of Jiangling,collected books as many as 37000 volumes, some of which other people did not have or see. He was famous for collections at that time, while the reputation went away so that few people knew about him. His son
Tianhao wrote a book named Tian’s Bibliography in Jingzhou, based on the collections. But the book was scattered. Nowadays we even cannot confirm its name and author. The book recorded some pseudographs and different versions. Moreover some recordings were initial and some views were different from others,So it has a certain reference value in the bibliography.