The 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly with the theme “Transform Libraries: Transform Societies” was held in Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia from August 24th to 30th. Over 3,500 delegates from more than 110 countries attended. IFLA President, Glòria Pérez-Salmerón declared, “We are the motors of change, and we are ready. Ready to move up a gear. It is our duty. And our opportunity. Because societies are better, fairer, stronger and more diverse for being shaped by libraries.” One of the most important achievements was the official release of the IFLA Global Vision Report. IFLA Secretary General, Gerald Leitner said, “No other organization in the field of culture, education and science in the world has been able to launch such an inclusive and democratic process worldwide. The IFLA Global Vision Report is the manifestation of the power and opportunities of a united library field.” A series of reports such as IFLA’s Trend Report and Statement on Copyright Education and Copyright Literacy, were published as well that received a worldwide attention. Sun Yigang put forward his thoughts and suggestions on China’s active participation in the Global Vision projects, more active participation in IFLA initiatives, and enhancement of the discourse rights. Cheng Huanwen introduced the core contents of each trend report, and analysed the influence of Global Vision Report and Library Map of the World. He maintained that libraries have everything they need to survive and thrive in this continuously changing world, and that the key to success lies in how we seize the opportunities to adapt to social changes. Wu Jianzhong proposed that libraries should take the initiative to transform, and that we should study the Global Vision Report to achieve the inclusive development of libraries. Zhang Shali sorted out the status quo of Chinese library colleagues’ participation in IFLA. She suggested that China should actively participate in the work of IFLA committees, and of IFLA annual conferences and sessions, as well as contributing to the IFLA Journal, making China’s voice heard by IFLA.

The Global Vision Report (abbreviated as the Report) was officially released at the 84th annual meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions(IFLA) on August 26, 2018. This paper makes a general introduction to the Report, and analyses the six questions, two findings, ten highlights and ten opportunities demonstrated in the Report, as well as its data sources and planning process. It puts forward some suggestions on actively participating in various projects of IFLA, promoting world cultural heritage protection and accelerating transformation and reform of libraries. 

China is advocating the nurturing of ‘Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ cultural atmosphere, and public cultural service has become one of the key tasks of the Chinese government. It’s of great theoretical and practical significance to explore the role of public cultural service in promoting the development of innovation culture. Based on the system theory and collaborative innovation, this paper builds a model of public cultural service promoting the development of innovation culture for this purpose. Taking Haidian District as an example, it analyzes the application of the model. The research shows that public cultural activities and products play an important role in constructing the spiritual aspect of innovative culture, and that public cultural products and facilities provide important support for the building of materialistic aspect of innovative culture. It recommends developing innovation culture through setting incentive management institutional mechanisms for public cultural service, holding scientific and technological public cultural activities, developing intelligent public cultural products and providing digitization public cultural facilities.

Based on the statistical data of basic public cultural services in different cities in Jiangsu province in 2013-2016, and by adopting Gini coefficient method, a quantitative study on the equalization of basic public cultural services in Jiangsu is conducted. It is discovered that the level of its equalization is relatively high and with good quality. To promote the equalization of basic public cultural services with high quality and sustainability, we recommend addressing the vast difference in economic foundation, making use of characteristic historical and cultural resources, building multiple supply entities, adjusting input structure, and promoting the sharing of resources and the all-round urbanization.

The article traces the lack of academic research on specialized Chinese libraries in modern times and inspected the establishment background of the specialized libraries during the period of the Republic of China, characteristics of the library, types of books, professional service and so on.The research objects include: The Library of the Institute of Geological Survey of the Ministry of Agriculture, Shanghai Mingfu Library of China Science Society, the Library of Shanghai Specialized School of the Ministry of Communications, the Education Library of the China Education Improvement Society, the Jiangsu Provincial Library of the Studies of Ancient Chinese Civilization, the Library of the Palace Museum, and Shanghai Hongying Library. With the advocacy of a group of advanced people and the participation of some library scientists, the birth and growth of several well-known specialized libraries have enriched the types of modern Chinese libraries and witnessed the development of the science, education, humanities, engineering and technology of modern China, and even the revival of Chinese traditional culture.

This article elaborates on the development process of Zhangjiagang Library from the completion of the new library building in 2009 to the establishment of a “five-in-one” comprehensive rural information service station covering the whole city in 2012 and the launch of the first 24-hour self-service library in 2013. It focuses on branches management, funding, site selection principles, safety management, and volunteer services to introduce the library.

The paper analyzes the innovation background from the perspectives of the “moral education” framework and the dilemmas facing library in reading promotion and freshman instruction program. It then puts forward an integrated freshman instruction model in light of foreign freshman programs. Finally, the paper takes the new freshman instruction program held by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library and Antai College of Economics and Management for an example to discuss the importance of implementing new freshman instruction model in the new situation.

The development of think tank service in university libraries is not only a response to the national strategy, accommodating the needs of university, but also an urgent requirement for the library’s own transformation. The paper introduces the exploration and practices of Peking University Library in providing service typical of think tanks, such as discipline development support services and periodic research monitoring services. Through analyzing the advantages, significance, difficulties and problems it encounters, the paper puts forward the thoughts and strategy of developing the think tank service in university library, such as the construction of basic database, and the establishment of personnel training mechanism and experts team, in the hope of enhancing the initiatives, improving professionalism, and building high-profile brands. Keywords

In face of the application and implementation of new bibliographic framework, libraries are deliberating over the important issue of how to identify the hierarchy accurately. Currently, domestic researches in this field are relatively few, in which context, this paper makes a comprehensive and systematic analysis of bibliographic relationships of all hierarchies, summarizes the identifying features, and creates the mapping among identifying features, CNMARC fields and BIBFRAME 2.0 classes and properties.It provides references for the hierarchy identification of Chinese bibliographic data and promotes the transformation of Chinese bibliographic data to the new bibliographic framework.

Linked Data is a kind of semantic web expression form which uses RDF data model. RDF is a kind of description language based on XML. RDF is designed to be read and understood by computers. With the growth of network information, the storage and sharing technology of linked data is developing continuously. Using ontology and associated data technology, and through the investigation of the existing music resources and the users’ demand for music resources, this paper attempts to study the integration strategy of network open data and library cataloging data with the emphasis on user resource acquisition requirements. Based on technology as such, the music ontology is used to realize the data integration of DBTune’s open music resources john peel and worldcat through RDF integration.

The Chuan Chao habits of Scholars were very common in the Ming Dynasty. Not only did it promote the expansion of the total collection of books, but also affected the bibliography compiled. It had a great relationship with “Su Shu Bu Guan” at that time. These led to book collectors reproduced other bibliographic in the process of codification bibliography, but also made them like transcribing rumors, and so on. There were many problems. Especially, it behaved very obvious in the record Three Kingdoms and The Marshes of Mount Liang.

The Qing Dynasty scholar DING-Shihan completed three works in his life about Guanzi noting-collating. PAN-Chengbi and GUO-Moruo thought that Guanzi-An in Shanghai Library was the only retained work written by DING-Shihan. In Nanjing Library, there is a very few people known work named Guanzi-Jiaoben and Guanzi-Jiaoyi, both of which are incomplete.Author’s view in this paper is, that the real name of Guanzi-Jiaoben is Guanzi-An, and is Guanzi-An’s another part. Guanzi-Jiaoyi is Guanzi-Zhu mentioned in the preface of Guanzi-An, the work name is also wrong. The content of Guanzi-Zhu is almost complete, so is Guanzi-An. Guanzi-An and Guanzi-Zhu are all noting-collating works, the completing time of Guanzi-An is earlier than that of Guanzi-Zhu. The relationship between them is supplement and enrichment about noting-collatin

Yu Yue was a scholar in the end of the Qing Dynasty. His book, YULOUZAZUAN was finished in 6th Guangxu year (1880) and has not been completely collated yet. During my collation, there are numbers of problems concerning false use of words, misunderstanding of phrases, unverified quotations etc. In the meantime, the misuse and deletion of the former research in YULOUZAZUAN has also been pointed out.

The History of New Opera published by Shanghai New Drama & Novel Publishing House in 1914 is the first chronicle of drama in China. The book, which describes the development of the early Shanghai drama in the 16 years from 1899 to 1914, is one of the important existing literature for the study of early drama. Zhu Shuangyun, the author of the book, is not only a former witness, but also a researcher and practitioner of the early drama movement of our country. However, the History of New Opera was written in a hurry and not well composed. the author, in the course of collating the book, referring to other literatures, chronicles the early students’ acting activities, and points out several neglected questions in the book, so as to evaluate Zhu Shuangyun and the History of New Opera objectively in a perspective close to the truth of history.