How should public libraries respond to major public safety emergencies? How to establish a
scientific and reasonable library emergency service system and mechanism? Wei Dawei and Liao Yongxia
introduced a series of countermeasures adopted by the National Library of China in the face of coronavirus
outbreak in 2019, and shared thoughts on the construction and improvement of the library emergency service
guarantee. Ke Ping pointed out that library emergency service mechanism includes emergency safeguard
mechanism, linkage mechanism and information sharing mechanism, and finally he put forward ten suggestions
on the library emergency services mechanism. Zhang Zhixiong shared his thoughts on organization of urgent
information service in professional libraries under the major public safety emergencies, based upon the role
that Wuhan Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences had played in monitoring the progress of COVID-19
research, to support the related scientific research in China. He emphasized the social value of the professional
information service under the major public safety emergencies. Wang Youqiang proposed, in view the relevant
practices of the international library community, that libraries should make full use of their unique advantage
of literature and information resources, and to actively provide documentary information resource services
for decision-making, research, and publicity in the management of emergency events of public security. Teng
Wuxiao pointed out that libraries, as an important part of the national public service system, should develop a
reader-oriented and capacity-driven emergency service by way of systematic thinking. Zhou Lu investigated
the emergency services provided by public libraries in China since the outbreak of novel coronavirus and
then pointed out that it is essential for public libraries, as public service institutions, to establish a reasonable
scientific and systematic emergency service system.

This paper discusses the concept and ten characteristics of “Infordemic”, including the rapidity
of transmission, the overload of information, the popularity of attention, the universality of strategy, the
dynamics of content, the trans regional nature of space, the sociality of media, the discrimination of stigma,
the indeterminability of authenticity and the harmfulness of effect.

Public health anxiety caused by media reports of the 2019 novel coronavirus is now widespread
in the USA, and misinformation can lead to discrimination against Chinese and Chinese Americans.
Therefore, access to authoritative and trusted information about the virus and general infectious diseases is
more important than ever. Using keywords of “Novel coronavirus” and “Library” and conducting search
in Google, the author analyzed the content of the websites of U.S. national libraries, state and regional
public libraries, and academic and university libraries appeared on the first few pages of the Google results
page regarding the themes of the 2019 novel coronavirus. The author sorted out and summarized the
content and suggested resources of the web pages created on the theme of the 2019 novel coronavirus
and tried to answer the following questions: What should public libraries and librarians know about the
2019 novel coronavirus? Faced with the 2019 novel coronavirus, what are the US national special libraries
doing? What resources and services do state and regional public libraries provide? How do academic
libraries and university libraries face the challenge of the 2019 novel coronavirus? The analysis results
show that libraries at all levels play different roles. The libraries not only play the role of disseminating
authoritative and reliable trusted knowledge and information, but also play the role of an educator, educate
the public to learn common knowledge and even professional knowledge of public health, and provides
corresponding consulting services and emergency services to educate the public and relieve unnecessary
panic.

In the past 70 years, the development of China’s information organization has gone through
two phrases before and after the reform and opening up, four periods of pioneering and establishing,
exploring and practicing in difficulties, rapid development and innovative development. It has made
remarkable achievements in the construction of information organization tool system, subject system and
technology system. It is also inspired that the development of information organization should always focus
on users’ information needs, adhere to the new information technology leading and promoting, insist on
the development model with Chinese characteristics, and adhere to innovation based on Inheritance and
reference. 

Theme library is the product of public library development in the new era, which now aims
to meet people’s high quality culture needs, and to provide tailored services to its patrons. At present, there
are some problems and misunderstandings in the construction of theme library that need to be addressed in
particular. In the future, theme library should follow the path of systematic development and the strategy of
integration of cultural and tourism development; strengthen the theme resource development and develop
the “theme +” model; integrate the theme library into the construction of the public library’s central-branch
system, and treat it as a key development in the “14th Five-Year Plan” of public libraries. We should
optimize the scientific layout of the theme library and build the central-branch system of the theme library,
so that more citizens can enjoy theme library services nearby.

The present paper sorts out the existing academic research on reading media in China,
recognizes the deficiencies of current researches, and proposes some directions for future research. Current
research can be divided into two parts: the media-centered research and the reader-centered research. The
media-centered study recognized the differences of two reading behavior patterns under different media
environment-one is based on digital and information technology, and the other based on traditional printing
technology. The media-centered study also investigated the way in which reading behavior patterns of the
whole society is influenced by the media technology. The reader-centered research investigated the behavior
and attitudes of readers toward reading media in the multi-media environment, including the behavior
and attitudes toward all kinds of reading media, the differences of reading behaviors and attitudes toward
different kinds of reading media, and the influential factors of those behaviors and attitudes. There are some
deficiencies in the existing study, such as the ignorance of readers’ subjective initiative, the ambiguous
classification of reading media, the lack of research on multi-media and cross-media reading, and the lack
of thorough investigation on readers’ behaviors and attitudes. 

Primary and secondary schools are the key period for students to form good reading habit.
Reading classics is especially important. Focusing on the status of shallow reading among teenagers
in China, and taking Notre Dame de Paris as an example, the paper makes a comparative study of the
same chapter of the unabridged translation edition and simplified translation edition by means of word
segmentation, emotion analysis and social network analysis and from lexical, syntactic and semantic aspects.
The result reveals a significant difference in vocabulary, rhetorics, syntax, characters and plot between the
two editions. To a certain extent, the simplified edition destroys the originality and self-consistency of the
classics. It thus questions the necessity of having two editions in the teenagers’ education, and recommends
instead guiding reading classics in accordance with teenager readers’ respective reading ability. It also
points out that teenager readers should retain the right to choose classics to their interest to ensure the
readability of reading.

The article selects four representative and influential national reading promotion projects for
young children: Bookstart, Sure Start, Summer Reading Challenge, and Chatasterbooks (Reading Clubs)
as examples to analyze the development of reading promotion services for young children in the UK. It
summarizes the characteristics of such promotions: family as the basic unit; public library as the main
organizer; objective surveys as the basis for the activities; eliminating poverty elimination and protection of
children’s basic rights and interests as the goal; and preparing young children for school as the main purpose.
“Reading changes everything; it’s never too early to start”, “reading for pleasure”, and “early reading
is the most important investment” are the important concepts in British reading promotion. Government
departments, societies/associations, charitable organizations, libraries, and health care centers play different
roles as initiators, organizers, funders, and promoters, which thus forms the reading promotion system to
jointly promote the reading for young children. 

American community libraries play an indispensable role in the daily life of local residents.
Based on authors’ visits to the US, this paper explores the positioning and service characteristics of
American community libraries through the lens of service design. This paper studies the “1000 Books
before Kindergarten” program promoted by the community libraries over the nation, analyzes the
background, service process, and service blueprint of this reading promotion plan. It is aimed to enlighten
the development of community libraries in China

In this paper, the working theory of ancient syrup and the science behind such cleaning
methods are discussed. Analysis reveals that saponin and sorghum seed aqueous solution is a multifunctional
biological cleaning solution, which contains natural non-ionic surfactant that not moisturizes but also
suspends dirts, produces few foams, and rinses easily. In the meantime, it disinfects efficiently, protects
colors and paper, and removes acid. Its related cleaning techniques and the specified water temperature are
all supported by science.

Since the implementation of the “Chinese Ancient Books Protection Plan” in 2007, Yunnan
province has established an ancient books protection system with ethnic characteristics; namely, the
corresponding institutions for ancient books protection were set up in province, prefectures(cities) and
counties. Relying on its own staff and volunteers, the province carried out a general investigation and
registration of ancient books. The conservation of ancient books written in minority languages of Yi, Zang,
Dongba and Dai has been conducted, leading to a breakthrough in the conservation skills for ancient books
by the ethnic minority groups. At the same time, a number of staff have been trained for the cuase. What’s
more, the digitization, collation and publication of ancient books have been carried out actively, and a
precious database of ancient books and rubbings is opened to the public. Focusing on the temples, the
general investigation, registration, the preservation and conservation of ancient books by ethnic minority
groups, this paper presents the view that the preservation of ancient books involves multidisciplinary
knowledge; therefore, the academic discipline for ancient books preservation should be developed as soon
as possible.

In order to adapt to the diversification of cataloguing objects, Universal Machine Readable
Cataloging (UNIMARC) Bibliographic Format Version 3 has been updated four times since its publication
in 2008. Three fields have been added to the “3XX Annotation Block” and 13 fields revised. Field names,
field definitions, indicators, sub-fields and so on were changed. Especially, many sub-fields have been
added with a unified resource identifier of $u, which means that bibliographic description based on
URI/ IRI identification resources will be expanded to other descriptive objects to actualize correlation.
The 3XX field covers almost all kinds of details and annotations of various documents. Making full use
of the detailed description of document details in sub-fields can help users to understand and retrieve
the relevant information of the required documents, and expand the scope and depth of information
retrieval.

According to the conversion practice of classification numbers of Chinese and Japanese
literature, this paper compares and analyzes the marks, the division of literature eras, the establishment of
literature categories and the classification system of literature categories of Nippon Decimal Classification
and Chinese Library Classification. It puts forward literary theory, literary history, literary works and
research conversion rules, and lists a large number of conversion examples.

Against the backdrop of the deep integration of culture and tourism, public library should explore
the ways to support the tourism and to promote the revitalization of culture by tourism. To this purpose, the
paper puts forward the value of the “public library + home stay” model and taking the cooperation between
Tonglu County library and the home stays as an example, discusses the operation mode, the implementation
effect and the existing problems in the process. It also provides ideas for improvement from four aspects, in
the hope of providing reference for the innovative development of culture and tourism integration.

The study first reviewed the existing literature on open data competitions and identified their
characteristics by investigating four different types of open data competition cases at home and abroad.
Accordingly, it summarized the characteristics of open data and open data platforms, and proposed the
basic framework of open data competitions. Based on the framework, the key procedures of open data
competitions were presented. Finally, it put forward suggestions to provide the necessary guidance for
domestic open data competition organizers.

The library’s personalized recommendation system emphasizes recommendation accuracy,
which cannot meet readers’ need for diversity. In this paper, we introduce the deep learning algorithm
into the library recommendation system, and discuss the problem of the recommendation diversity. First,
according to the historical checkout data, we form the reader’s borrowing behavior co-occurrence matrix
combined with time series; then, the co-occurrence matrix is regarded as context, and we identify the
reader’s potential interest by using the potential semantic analysis of Word2vec; finally, we identify the
reader’s interest and provide varied recommendation results. In this paper, we use more than 5 410 000 data
from the Pudong Library in Shanghai to experiment. Comparing to association rule algorithm, we find that
our method has a good impact on the recommendation diversity.

This is a report concerning the collection, preservation, and display of local materials such
as old photographs and old documents and the digitalization of local materials at public libraries in Japan.
The primary materials in Japanese public libraries are printed books. Digitalization of library’s collection
has not been much done in the majority of Japanese public libraries, neither have they purchased electronic
books. However, the collection, preservation, and display of local materials is specified in the Library Law
and is one of the important duties of public libraries. The most appropriate method for the preservation and
display of local materials, including old photographs, old documents, and rare materials, is digitalization.
Public libraries must consider the digitalization of local materials and display of them via the internet.
Digitalization requires recordation of data, but public libraries at present have no uniform standard for
recording data from old photographs. Based on the current situation, this report examines the digitalization
of local materials at public libraries in Japan currently and its future.

The historical value and academic value of non-book and non-periodical documents from
the Republic of China period are very high, and they are important materials for the study of modern
Chinese history. There are 275 kinds of such documents, accounting for about 1/4 of the total 1021 kinds
of publications of the period sorted out after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. These include
archives, bulletins, conference materials, government documents, data compilation, investigation reports,
statistical data, celebrity chronicles, genealogy, diary, manuscripts and letters. In the order of time, this
paper divides the collation and publication of non-book and non-periodical documents into three periods,
and expounds on the status and characteristics of such collation and publication in the three periods
respectively. It also points out the existing problems: extremely unbalanced literature types; concentrated
among a few publishing houses; limited number of topics; and the missing of index. The paper concludes
with proposals for improvement. 

This paper examines the three taxonomies established by Tsinghua Univeristy library in the
Republic of China era and the practical significance of the taxonomies for library from the perspectives of
changes in the classification thoughts, classification symbols, applicable languages, classification results,
periodical classification and the processing technology of the book number.