This paper reviews the status of the researches on evolution of Internet public opinion, early warning mechanism and corresponding evaluation at home and abroad. It studies the basic problems of public opinion on the Internet, and introduces a variety of ways of evolution after the public opinion is produced. The characteristics of public opinion in five dimensions determine the emergence, development and evolution of public opinions. And it is not recommendable to regard action as the consequence of the public opinion on the Internet. It summarizes the theory and classification of the evolution law of the network public opinions, according to the themes, public opinion subjects, information dissemination and network behavior. For the early warning, natural language processing is the core technology but the index systems that cover public opinion themes, public opinion content, communication process, media and public opinion audience can be of different focuses wheras each system can be incomplete. For researches on solutions, they emphasizes specific ways rather than the systematic methods. Finally, the paper puts forward a series of specific research methods that addresses the issues of public opinion evolution on the Internet, its early warning and coping theory.

Information analysis underwent the development from small data to big data. The big data characterized by 4V are reforming contemporary academic research, and challenging information analysis. How to process huge data becomes the key to transform and develop quantitative information analysis. With retrospect of historical process on data analysis, we review the differences of information analysis in research paradigms, methods and contents based on small or big data, and then compare their characteristics within mutual references.

The article uses historical research methods to conduct an in-depth analysis of reading groups developed by the library in the Republic of China period. The study found that the work related to the library reading groups in the Republic of China began to develop from the late 1920s. From 1930 to 1936, it developed rapidly with more attention paid to the work of the reading groups. It became common for libraries to facilitate reading groups and to feature a diversity of participants. But the development slowed down after 1937. The library community mainly understood the function of the reading groups from the perspective of social education, and considered the reading groups as an important way of reading guidance. The core activities of the reading groups included reading, writing and research, supplemented by other activities. Libraries played the role of instructor and service provider in the process of developing the book clubs. The ideas of providing different guidance for different readers, supporting systematic reading, emphasizing supervision and assessment, and those of featuring resource service, conference service and other service ideas have significance value for today

“Flash Report” is a special part of the Digital Academic and Humanities Research Session of the 9th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF2018). From the perspectives of “methods and tools”, “infrastructure construction” and “user experience”, 12 speakers from Harvard University, London College, Peking University, Sun YAT-SEN University, Nanjing University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, East China Normal University and Shanghai Library, shared their researches and practical achievements in the field of digital humanities regarding the topics of “Technology Transformation Paradigm”, “Data shaping the world” and “demand decisionoriented”, which provided valuable reference and foundation for future development.

The 9th SILF2018 held a panel discussion on the theme of “interaction and contention”. It discussed the methods and tools of digital humanities, the definition and significance of digital humanities, and how to attract traditional humanists to accept digital humanities. The current digital humanities technology was reviewed in a panoramic way, and the direction for further development was pointed out.

COUNTER is an international standard to standardize the data processing, auditing and submission of statistical reports on the use of online electronic resources. It is the core element of the usage statistics and evaluation of library electronic resources. Currently, COUNTER has released the latest version of R5, and it is of great significance to understand the new features of R5 and its difference from the previous version in the electronic resource statistics of the library. This article introduces the report of COUNTER R5, the indicator type of the report, the data type, the access type, and other attributes of the improved report. The paper also introduces the influence of R5 on SUSHI harvest and on library, the concept of “continuous maintenance”, and the important timing of R5 implementation. At the same time, the development and differences of R5 compared with R4 were compared and analyzed. The primary features of COUNTER R5 are its consistency, clarity and simplicity especially in contrast with COUNTER R4. R5 also includes a continuous maintenance process that allows code to be updated without introducing a new version. In sum, R5 relieves the time and personnel costs of version upgrades for vendors and libraries.

In foreign periodicals databases, a prevalent problem is to use the same abbreviation for names of several authors. It seriously affects the accuracy of the author search. This paper attempts to, by utilizing rules and algorithms, enable accurate search by author names: it annotates training data for classification algorithm based on rules, so that supervised algorithm can be conducted in unsupervised conditions. The algorithm is suitable for author name disambiguation of the known authors. Compared with regular disambiguation methods, this method, because of the unsupervised algorithm, does not require manual annotation, and thus features higher efficiency and is easier to correspond with entity. The method is proved to result in higher accuracy in practice.

At present, the development of public libraries in the eastern, central and western China is still uneven and inadequate. In the context of the implementation of the Public Libraries Act, how to further improve the integration of public library resources and service collaboration, and how to promote the overall synchronization, coordination, so as to realize scientific, healthy and sustainable development of public library undertakings have become most important topics for public library practitioners and researchers in China. Taking the practice of the touring lectures of Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui public libraries for example, the paper explores the methods of promoting the sustainable development of inter-provincial cooperation regarding lecture service in public libraries in accordance with the law.

Among the manuscript collections at Sichuan Provincial Library, many of them are manuscripts by Liu Xianxin. There are 77 kinds of manuscripts with 5531 pages in total, making Sichuan Provincial Library the leading institution in China collecting Liu’s manuscripts. In this article, I will discuss how the library can make good use of this precious and important resource, in regard to its collecting, organizing and protection. Hopefully, this exploration will be thought-provoking for how to protect, do the research into and make good use of rare materials in the library setting.

University libraries aim at transformation from information resource repositories to academic commons, and library space service is one of the core services. The purpose of this paper is to provide some reference for the research and practice of library space reconstruction in China base on the case study of the public-funded university libraries’ space reconstruction projects in Singapore. It analyses the reconstructing approaches of four learning spaces - collaborative and social space, sanctuary space, resource and service support space, and campus culture and community space, and elaborates on their project outcomes. Three strategies are proposed for university libraries to reconstruct space in China. University libraries should proactively analyse patrons’ needs, rationally allocate the four learning spaces, and adopt space management methods based on evaluation

Using the method of citation analysis, the references cited in the classical mathematics textbooks used in colleges and universities at home and abroad are selected, and the citation statistics of the English books in these references are analyzed. Then the guarantee rate of mathematics books in Fudan University Library and CALIS Center is calculated and evaluated: a total of 10519 citation records, after removing duplicate citation data of a total of 8166 English bibliographic information. This dataset can provide an effective evaluation and international reference for the introduction and utilization of professional English books in the college and university libraries in China.

With the launch of the Second-stage Project of the Complete Library of Canton project, the collection and arrangement of Guangzhou literature in the Republic of China period has been fully conducted. This paper analyzes the multiple attributes and special complexities of Guangzhou literature in the Republic of China period, and defines its timeframe, geographical scope, and content. The author is inspired by the debates on local literature and puts forward that the core collection is the literature related to Guangzhou, the extended set is the published literature of Guangzhou, and the boundary set is the literature written by the Guangzhou natives. Guided by this rule, this paper proposes the path of “core set catalogexpanded set catalog-boundary set catalog” to make the Catalog of Guangzhou literature in the Republic of China Period

In June 2018, the Review and Prospects: International Academic Seminar on Arrangement and Study of Literature in the Republic of China Period was held again at the Shanghai Normal University. The seminar focuses on the current situation and development trend of documents arrangement and study of the Republic of China period, and summarizes the research characteristics from aspects of protection plan, primary protection, documents arrangement and publication, collection and research of thematic document, collections kept in institutions home and abroad, and database construction. The development trend is identified as “the publication of photocopying and digitalization”, “digital humanities and technology support”, and “inter-library cooperation and mutual benefits”. It also points out the room for improvement in terms of original protection technology, the scope of research on overseas collections, the depth of research on relevant foreign literature, and collaboration among scholars and the related institutions.

 At present there are four editions of HOU HAN JI and each of them have some doubtful points. In this paper I will correct some problems by collating versions, explaining words and researching of historical facts.

Closely related with the Korean Shixue (or real-learning) school is one type of Korean literature on the study of Shang Shu, which include over 40 kinds of books or writings by Piao Shitang, Li Hengxiang, Li Yi, Wei Bogui, Huang Yinxi, Piao Zhiyuan, Hong Darong, and Ding Ruoyong. These works are characterized by the combination of the study on Shang Shu with real-learning, a break-through of the binding of the Neo-Confucianism and an expansion into new dimensions. An exploration of these literature will enable us to conduct the studies on Korean Confucianism, real learning and textual criticism toward further depth.

Yuan Zuzhi, who is an old scholar and lived in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty, was active on the press, later transformed into a typical representative of the press scholars. But about his life and writings, up to now there are still a lot of controversy. In this paper, Yuan Zuzhi’s own writings and Shen Bao as the main test object, supplemented by other relevant literature at that time, organize to choose, details examine and correct the date of death and the writings of the department alias, for future research to solve the basic problem.

The 30 volumes of Lin Zheng’s Poetics of Lianxinshibei Completion of the Yuan Dynasty, published by Cuiyanjingshe, were included in the list of the first precious ancient books in China as well as photocopied and published by the reconstructed edition of Song and Yuan Dynasties in China. However, judging from the history of the development and evolution of Jianyang engraved script fonts, its books should not be the Yuan Dynasty engraved scripts, but more like the pre-Ming Dynasty re-engraved scripts. From the time of the Ming Dynasty, the inscription on the jade tablet of the Yuan Dynasty is clear and natural. Only after Xuande and Zhengtong in Ming Dynasty did the font gradually become horizontal and vertical, the strokes became smoother and smoother, and generally appeared flat and rigid. This is a typical feature from the handwriting software of the Yuan Dynasty to the transitional stage of the craftsman hardware between Zhengde and Jiajing. The author deduced that the book was used to estimate the cards in the Ming Dynasty, and to pretend to be a block printed edition.