This article describes the process of the change from the third generation of library talents to the fourth in the Chinese library community at the turn of the century, analyses the phenomenon of glass ceiling and gravedigger in the development of library professionals in the new century, as well as the possibility of the new break of default in the continuity of talents, thus puts forward suggestion to strengthen the training of the fifth generation of library professionals.

Personal Information Re-finding (PIR) refers to users looking for information that they have ever seen. In recent years, it has gradually become one of the research hotspots in the field of personal information management. This paper systematically summarizes the related literature in foreign countries, and sums up the context-based research on PIR in five aspects: user context, information context, task context, environment context, and information technology context, followed with detailed analysis and discussion. Finally, it summarizes the shortcomings of the current research results and puts forward the future research direction, with a view to providing reference and guidance for the theoretical research and practice exploration of PIR.

A scientific intelligence process helps improve the efficiency and level of intelligence performance. However, the existing police intelligence process model has insufficient theoretical verification, and falls short of guidance. In this study, the method and concept of cybernetics are applied to the police intelligence process to optimize the existing models by reconfiguration and analysis. The rules of the police information system operation are studied from the perspective of information and control. This paper, based on the functional modeling method, puts forward a police intelligence process model, and establishes the interactive relationship between each stage and the subject of the police intelligence. The flow, feedback and resistance in the operation of police intelligence are analyzed. It concludes that, by controlling the source, process, communication and feedback regulation, we can enhance the efficiency of police intelligence work

The article introduces the innovative practice of Wenzhou Children’s Library and Wenzhou Library in promoting children readers’ service with the reward points system. It starts with the origin of the idea of reward points in Wenzhou Children’s Library, and then systematically describes the implementation process of the reward points system from three aspects: the development, the improvement, and the optimization. It concludes with an introduction to the design and operation of the Children’s Knowledge Bank of Wenzhou Library and its social benefits.

In the era of big data, digital technology provides new methods, new tools, new platforms and new content for humanities research, and promotes the transformation of humanities research paradigms and research contents. A comparative analysis of the digital humanities research at home and abroad can provide reference for the research and practice in this field in China. Based on WoS and CSSCI databases, the paper utilized VOSviewer, UCINET, Origin8.0, TDA and other analysis tools to explore the evolution of the digital humanities research at home and abroad, and comprehensively revealed the history, current situation and development direction of digital humanities research. The paper fully reflected the research status of digital humanities at home and abroad from four aspects, namely, the life cycle division, cooperative network map, hot topic map and disciplinary evolution map. Furthermore, the paper put forward proposals according to the relevant domestic research and development status. 

In order to offer readers more access to digital humanities resources and to improve the use of these resources in cultural institutions, this paper designed a digital humanities tool to enable readers to obtain digital humanities resources through paper books. Based on the open data of Shanghai Library and Internet datasets, the inBooks WeChat mini program was implemented using OCR, NER, and entity relation extraction. With inBooks, readers can use mobile phones to take photos of books to obtain corresponding digital resources. At the same time, inBooks builds a personalized knowledge network to help form a knowledge system on the part of readers. The system makes it easier and more convenient for readers to acquire digital humanities resources. Its framework has loose coupling characteristics, which indicates room for more digital humanities applications. 

Taking 25 university libraries in China as the research objects, the paper analyzes the differences in overall composition and weight of bid evaluation elements, price score, technical score and business score through empirical research, with the aim to explore a set of effective evaluation criteria for book suppliers’ service quality in book purchasing and to promote the transformation of university library resources development and its sustainable development. 

Interlibrary loan and readers’ recommendation serve as two different ways to address the lack of collection. In the contemporary library practice, the two, conducted independently, have their respective merits and demerits. On the basis of a comparative analysis of the practices, problems, timeliness and acquisition costs of the two methods, we present a feasible scheme of associating and unifying the two. We believe that readers’ abilities to acquire resources through various channels should be nurtured. We propose to develop a unified submission system integrating interlibrary loan with readers’ recommendation, to design a set of acquisition and selection criteria, and to come up with a rapid processing method after purchase. Accordingly, we establish an integrated mechanism of feasibility, and design a corresponding flowchart for reference to peers. 

To improve the quality of the collection, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) adopted a new inclusion criterion in 2014. The paper identifies Chinese journals included and removed by DOAJ from 2003 to 2017, and makes a status analysis regarding the publishers, organizers, subject distribution, and DOAJ seal of the included journals, as well as other databases that include them. It also studies the reasons of those excluded journals, whether they were included in other databases, and the predatory journal list. It concludes with countermeasures for libraries. 

The paper first summarized the changes in library resources and in integrated library systems, and then pointed out the need for a new generation of library services platforms. It focused on the research conducted by Marshall Breeding regarding automation marketplace from 2010 to 2017, and introduced in detail the current mainstream library services platforms as well as their major development methods. Taking into account the actual needs of the Peking University Library, the paper proposed a demand framework for the Peking University Library in the end. 

Taking the top ten university libraries ranked by USNEWS in 2017 as the research target, this paper investigates and analyzes the transformation of the American university libraries from three perspectives, namely, mission, organizational framework, and librarian demands, in order to present guidance for the domestic university libraries. 

The Historie of the Great and Mightie Kingdome of China was written by Spanish and published first time in 1585 in Rome. This is a national report on providing the strategy of China to the Spanish King in the 16th century in terms of culture, politics, economy and military. At the same time, it is also an encyclopedia that introduced in detail all the situations about China to European scholars and popular readers. In particular, it also detailed the three travels to China by many Spanish missionaries during the Wanli period. All the book shaped the image of China for the Spanish Royal Family and even the entire European society. However, one of the notable problems that exist in the research works consist of the confusion of different editions. Therefore, this work aims to resolve this problem and has finally found that the first edition of the book is the Roman edition of 1585, and the final revision promised by Mendoza is the edition of 1586 published by Querino Gerardo, and the Chinese edition translated by Sun Jiakun is considered as the more faithful to the final revision from the point of view of the origin of the edition and the integrity of the transmission of information. Finally, it is worth to mention that the work is totally based on the firsthand literature from related European libraries. 

Abundant versions of novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties are archived in the National Library of Austria, including rare versions. The block-printed Ke Quan Xiang Wu Xian Ling Guan Da Di Hua Guang Tian Wang Zhuan （《刻全像五显灵官大帝华光天王传》）of the Ming dynasty and the manuscript of Liao Zhai Quan Tu （《聊斋全图》）of the Qing dynasty are worthy of attention. Ke Quan Xiang Wu Xian Ling Guan Da Di Hua Guang Tian Wang Zhuan differs from its edition stored in the British Museum, London. This novel is reprinted by Wen Ya Tang, which is on the basis of Chang Yuan Tang block-printed edition and other editions. There is the possibility that these variations reserve parts of style of the original copies. Liao Zhai Quan Tu contains text and corresponding main picture: on the left is the text which is transcribed by regular script; on the right is the fine picture. In terms of style, Liao Zhai Quan Tu shares some traits with Liao Zhai Tu Shuo. This peculiar version of the novel was finished after 1840. 

The Jinchuan Xiangshi Zongpu Collected in Shanghai Library contains prefaces, general notices, historic relics, rank of sacrifices, stories of country gentlemen, genealogy maps, genealogy records etc, and it can be regarded as Xiang’s family history in Cixi, Zhejiang. Zongpu is useful to understand Xiang’s migration, reproduction, ancestral stories, dutiful sons, chaste widows, family cultures, marriage circles and adoption principles. There are some mistakes of historical facts, and some beautification and fabrications about prefaces and ancestral stories.