The adult education of library science in the 17 years (1949—1966) after the founding of new
China is an important component of library science education in new China. This paper divides the adult
education during those 17 years into three stages, and reviews and comments on the development scale,
curriculum setting, teaching team, education management, teaching methods and achievements of each stage
by history research method. It points that the development of adult education during those 17 years cultivated
a large number of professionals, and the adult education should gradually transit to the continuing education
and high-level education in the future.

Based on Butler’s An Introduction to Library Science, Scholarship and Civilization, and several
other works, we strive to piece up his library science theory from three aspects: academic framework,
research on essential attributes, and interdisciplinary methodology. In the end, through the comparison with
Waples, we discuss the conflicts of their thoughts within Chicago School. Finally, we summarize Butler’s
three contributions to the library science theory: proposing the universally applicable academic framework
“science-technology-humanity”; accurately revealing the nature of books, libraries and library science as
well as roadmap to understand them; openly advocating the introduction of research methods of other
disciplines to the studies of library science.

Different from other business of library, the names given to “reference service” in China
were not agreed upon for quite a while. After 1949, the term “cankao ziyuan” gradually replaced “cankao
gongzuo” to refer to “reference service” and became a widely accepted name in the library community. This
paper attempts to explore various factors that influence the evolution and change of the terminology

Based on the analysis of the connotation of cultural and creative products of public libraries,
this paper defines the scope of reading promotion products and explains their significance. After the research
of the cultural and creative products for reading promotion in cultural institutions at home and abroad,
it categorizes these products into clothing, stationery, accessories, daily necessities and entertainment
products, as well as innovative methods and elements for reading promotion. It then puts forward the
development strategies of reading promotion and its related cultural and creative products, including
“drawing promotional elements from library resources and classics reading”, “creatively integrating the
cultural connotation and commercial function of literature works”, “developing products that combine fun
and literature”, and “deeply integrating product development with reading promotions”.

Library Regulations for General Colleges has no specific provisions on emergency services
university libraries should offer. Neither is there any corresponding researches in China and abroad on
how to guarantee information resources in the time of serious epidemic outbreak. It is urgent for university
libraries to think about and study the crisis management during the novel coronavirus epidemic in 2019
and 2020, so as to establish an effective emergency information resources guarantee system in university
libraries and to cope with more ever-changing information service environment in the future. Through
literature review and website research, and based on the service report of university libraries in all provinces
and cities in China during the epidemic period, as published on the website of the University Library
Information Work Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, this paper explores the main content,
points out the existing problems of emergency information resources guarantee system in five aspects,
namely, emergency management, resource service, network technology service platform security and
librarian expertise. Considering the current situation and in view of exemplary cases of resource services
during the epidemic, it also puts forth five proposals to address the aforementioned issues respectively. 

Space service especially combining with the reading promotion has become an important
service mode in library. This article introduced four cases of the theme space creativity in Beijing Normal
University. They are “Time Gallery”, “Smart Library”, “Donated books reading room”and “Relieving
Worries Library”. The author analyzed the creative background, design ideas and thoughts, reading
promotion activities and effectiveness about the reading promotion space. At last, the author gave ideas
about considering the principle of humanization design and compromised science and technology, humanity,
originality, flexibility and interactive quality for designing the theme space.

With the deepening of reading promotion activities, the adolescents’ and children’s
recommended bibliography research has been high on the agenda gradually in recent years. In order to
prepare and make good use of the recommended bibliography to promote the healthy development of
students’ reading activities, this research makes detailed investigation, analysis and discussion of the
extracurricular reading recommended bibliographies based on the Chinese curriculum standards for
primary and secondary school in China over the past 100 years. Three suggestions are put forward for the
preparation of the extracurricular reading recommended bibliographies: considering various factors and
formulating scientific and rational recommended standards comprehensively; referring to the experience of
foreign countries; and ensuring the diversity of works to be included in the bibliographies.

Minors service is one of the important library services, whereas public culture service system
oriented towards minors is one of the important parts of building a strong socialist culture in China.
Currently, public libraries (including children’s libraries), primary and middle school libraries are the
major forces which provide minors services, while university libraries have a fairly weak voice. Minors
services provided by university libraries have abundant foundations in terms legal principles. In practice,
however, university libraries need to improve minors’ digital literacy, develop reading promotion activity
with university characteristics, handle relationships between services to minors and teaching & research
services, give full play to the resource advantage, and pay attention to marketing.

As one of the cultural pillars that maintain long-term emotional interactions with the public,
public library should proactively and efficiently build connections with the general public. Against the
backdrop of prevalent Internet technology, public library is now facing the new challenges of image building
and innovative dissemination of information. Taking the publicity films of New York Public Library and
Boston Public Library as case studies, the paper discusses how libraries are aware of the public needs/
trends, how they integrate this public awareness into their publicity films, and the three characteristics of
such promotion production in the new era. The public library’s promotional film is no longer a one-way
“self-introduction” piece, but a visualized dialogue with the public.

Historic correspondence, in the form of letters, contains significant information of historic
figures such as their notes on the society, fluctuations in career, and life experiences. These letters can
help us expand knowledge beyond recorded historic events, supplement the details of historic literature,
and understand the complexity and versatility of these historic figures more comprehensively. However,
due to the limited scale of and access to historic correspondence, most correspondence research is stuck
on the level of individual letters. Different from previous researches, we, on the basis of our historical
correspondence network model, introduce two indicators, namely, topic relevance and topic similarity, to
explore the interpersonal/community relationships embedded in the individual ego-centric correspondence
network. We conduct experiments on the dataset of an individual letter collection, and correlate the
corresponding experimental results with certain historic events. This can be a valuable reference and guide
for researchers doing similar projects in future.

Social network analysis is one of the methods of digital humanistic analysis. In this paper, we
take the digital resources of contract documents of Shanghai Jiao Tong University as research data, and
MATLAB as research tool, to carry out social network analysis and visualization. Through data processing,
we can effectively acquire network nodes and network degree data, fit the power-law distribution based
on the number of participants, detect and categorize legit community, and reveal the characteristics and
structure of digital humanities and social network in digital resources.

The Committee on Cataloging of Japan Library Association has published the Nippon Cataloging
Rules, 2018 Edition (NCR2018) in December 2018, which is a new cataloging code for libraries in Japan. One
of its features is the compatibility with the Resource Description and Access (RDA). The purpose of this
study is to depict the characteristics of NCR2018 through a comparison with RDA. First, this study reveals
the following four causes for the differences between NCR2018 and RDA: 1) the use of Japanese language
and characters, 2) the use of an alternative heading system, 3) the use of a bibliographic hierarchical structure,
and 4) the code is for cataloging Japanese publications. Second, the study examines why these differences are
necessary for Japan, or why Japan could not directly adopt RDA. This study also identifies the difficulties that
libraries in Japan will face when adopting NCR2018.

 Liu Pansui is not only a famous modern scholar of literature and history, but also a collector of
books. He has collected more than 100,000 volumes in his lifetime, especially known for Thirteen Classics
of Song Dynasty, its secret book of Ming Dynasty and unique copies. This article examines the process of
his collection, his interests and seals, and also explains the end of his collection. In fact, except the missing
and burned books, many rare books and unique copies are collected in the libraries.

The classical catalogue of Chinese books compiled by Tohoku University records two volumes
of Tianxia Yitong Zhi, and indicates that both editions are block-printed by Wangshoutang in 1461. The two
books are block-printed by Wangshoutang at the end of the Ming dynasty, and printed by Wenlinge and
Jixiutang. Daming Yitong Zhi was printed to Tianxia Yitong Zhi, not to avoid the literary inquisition in Qing
Dynasty, but closely related to the popular desire and pursuit of knowledge all over the world at the end of
Ming Dynasty. There are still many mistakes in the bibliography, which can be summarized into two points.
First, the author’s name, time and writing style of ancient books are incorrect. Second, the edition of ancient
books described by Tohoku University Library is incorrect and inaccurate.

As one of the “Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou”, Gao Fenghan (1683–1749) was an eminent
painter and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Not only is he renowned for his significant
achievement in Chinese painting and calligraphy, but his inscriptions and colophons also contain insights
into art theories. Yangzhou Library’s collections include two rare books purchased by Gao, in which
seven hitherto unpublished inscriptions were recently discovered. They are mostly Gao’s commentaries,
poems, and purchasing background concerning the books, though their scholarly values have not been fully
recognized. This examination of the seven inscriptions helps to understand Gao’s connoisseurship of rare
books and reveals a career path beset with difficulties. Through this, we may glean new examples and clues
for the study of Gao’s intellectual thoughts and life.

The paper does a textual research on the authors, years of publication, the main contents of The
Science of Books and A Brief History of World Library. It holds that The Science of Books was published
in Library Quarterly from 1934 to 1935. A Brief History of World Library was firstly published in Xue Bu
Guan Bao from 1909 to 1910, then it was collated, punctuated and published in Library Quarterly from
1935 to 1936. This research has corrected the viewpoint, which academic circle considers that the years of
these publications could not be made textual research at present.