Since the 21st century, the most common classification of ancient books conservation are primordial conservation and regeneration conservation. Along with the social development, it is necessary to incorporate the intangible cultural heritage conservation to the ancient books conservation. According to the concept of the cultural inheritance, the conservation of ancient books is extended to heredity conservation. The concept of hereditary conservation is rooted in intangible cultural heritage, whereas its form is live transmission, made up of inheritance subject, inheritance site, inheritance content, and inheritance method. The essence of the hereditary conservation is that the ancient books conservation practitioners and enthusiasts will promote in various ways, demonstrate through exhibition, lecture, experience, folk custom demonstration, Internet communication, and cultural and creative development, and interpret the fine traditional culture, academic connotation and art contained in ancient books. Hereditary conservation involves more extensive participation and exerts more profound influence. It is urgent to identify and study the hereditary conservation of ancient books in order to jointly promote the development of ancient book conservation.

From the view of DIKW chain, the theoretical foundations of data science are statistics, machine learning, and epistemology, leading to the trinity of algorithm, computing, knowledge as the theoretical framework for knowledge discovery in big data age. In the same time, the big data architecture Hadoop, algorithm language Python, and deep learning framework Tensorflow provide technical foundations for the R&D activities of data science. The theoretical and technical foundations are supporting the creation and innovation of data science in the fields of information and knowledge studies.

The 14th 5-Year Plan of Public Library is a blueprint for the development of public library. Based on the summary of the achievements of the 13th five-year plan, and combined with the influencing factors in the period of the 14th five-year plan, this paper analyzes and explores the strategic objectives, key tasks, specific contents and countermeasures of the development of the public library undertaking during the period of the 14th five-year plan and even on the medium and long terms, so as to provide reference for the compilation of a far sighted strategic plan. 

In the current 14th 5-Year Plan for library and library science, we find that there are different focuses between the communities of library and library science, where the professional community is devoted to the current development and the academic community stresses its long-term goal. Under such conditions with enlightenments by national policies and international plans, from the view of academic libraries, we suggest to combine the plan of library with that of library science to we encourage the library and library science to have a win-win cooperation. 

Through the investigation of book donation policies of university libraries in the Ivy League and C9 League, this article makes a comparative analysis from the following five aspects of book donation: publicity, content, method, requirements, and rights & interests. The findings show some existing deficiencies in the book donation policies in Chinese university libraries. Thus, the study suggests improvement and development of book donation policies of university libraries in China be made including improving the website construction and strengthening publicity, attaching importance to donation work and standardizing book donation policies, improving collection development policies to reveal collecting needs, standardizing donation process and attaching importance to audit and evaluation, and clarifying rights and responsibilities and enriching donation feedback

On one hand, public cultural service agencies are rich in data resources but have difficulty in integrating them. On the other hand, the public culture sector lacks macro management data. The annual reports contain rich data such as venue information, event data, and business data, while the data quality of annual reports is relatively high, making these reports an important data source for public cultural services. How to extract data from annual reports and integrate them effectively have become an important research task in the multi-source data environment. The authors compile a crawler program to download annual reports, identify the PDF file format, summarize the text structure and the context characteristics of specific data, and use regular expressions to set up templates, and to match and extract various annual report data. In this paper, three sets of templates are designed for different types of data items such as data located in paragraph headings, data with obvious numerical characteristics, and memorabilia with a fixed and unified format, and better matching and extraction results were achieved.

Based on the reading needs of college students, it is an effective way to promote campus reading culture to innovate reading promotion activities.This paper introduces the induced-fit theory, investigates college students’ personalized reading needs and their participation in reading promotion activities, and reveals the potential of elevated level of fit between college students’ personalized reading needs and library’s reading promotion. According to the characteristics of reading personalization and the nature of reading promotion activities, this paper puts forward six improvement measures. 

Book sorting is the basic work of the literature circulation management. In recent years, more and more libraries try to introduce automatic sorting technology to improve the efficiency of book sorting. AGV sorting is a new automatic sorting technology, which has been maturely applied in the logistics industry. This paper focuses on the application of AGV sorting in book sorting. First it introduces the working principle of AGV sorting, compares and analyzes the five types of the book automatic sorting technologies. It then analyzes the book sorting technology of AGV from four aspects such as function design, process design, outlets design and effectiveness. Finally it forecasts the future of the application of AGV to book sorting.

Libraries, by providing different information services to promote learning, reading and research of target users, have an irreplaceable position in both daily life and in academic research. The University of Macau Library (UM Library), as the largest library in Macau, is a typical one that serve both purposes. This report aims to explore the reference services and information literacy programs provided by UM Library and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of two services. Literature review of past research on reference service and information literacy program in academic libraries, and their evaluation models and indicators are covered. In order to have a more in-depth evaluation of UM Library’s service quality and of their response to critical incidents, an email inquiry, which resembles a reference service request, was sent during the outbreak of COVID-19. It also compared the expectation and perception before and after the interaction. Based on the open data of the UM Library, the paper conducted SWOT and Quality Assessment of Performance (QAP) analysis to assess the target services. Then, some suggestions related to the service improvement of services were generated ensuing the analysis. For future studies on academic library performance evaluation, the researchers can consider adopting the analytical models and frameworks applied or mentioned in this report. 

This paper studies the legislative decision-making service of the Library of Congress from the perspective of think-tank construction, to provide reference for the other libraries. With the methods of literature survey, network survey and case analysis, the legislative decision-making service of four departments of the Library of Congress is investigated, while its think-tank service strategy is analyzed from four aspects of the organization, resources, achievements, application and impact. The related service promotion strategy for the libraries of China is put forward as a result. The legislative decision-making think-tank service promotion strategies of the library include strengthening the resources construction and research service of the support department in the organizational structure aspect, obtaining the support from the professionals both inside and outside the library in various forms in terms of resource allocation, giving play to the think-tank role of the scholars, establishing the communication mechanism in term of the service form, and focusing on the support of the national and local key developing areas regarding service content.

The deep integration of culture and tourism is the new mission faced by domestic public libraries in the new era. With the development of study tour, it is a direction for public libraries to provide service of study tour from a practical perspective as a measure to integrate culture and tourism. This paper analyses the specific practices of public libraries in U.K., the United States and Japan in such projects as “Off The Map” “Every Kid in a Park” “Museum Start i-Ueno” and Glasgow women’s historical travel. It summarizes four lessons drawn from the practice, namely, using technology to promote service, valueadded study tour experience, reflecting product differences and developing characteristic trips. Finally, this paper puts forward four suggestions to promote libraries in carrying out study tour services from the actual situation of domestic public libraries: to establish a correct concept of integration and develop with the help of synergistic advantages, to provide study tour reference and add value to the experience of study tour, to refine the library’s characteristic elements to make itself a study tour destination, and to develop from tourism to study tour and build the brand of library activities. 

Taking the collaborative research of humanities, libraries, and other disciplines in the design and implementation of the Chinese Phonology Database Sharing Research Platform as an example, the paper describes the internal research of humanities, the cooperation between libraries and humanities, and the cooperation between other disciplines. Starting from the “problems”, and extending the “user-centered” concept, it explains the significance of cooperation between library and humanities. From the four aspects, namely, resources, data management and storage space, platform and user aggregation, and personnel structure, it elaborates on the advantages and irreplaceability of the library in digital humanities cooperation research. It regards library as a natural digital humanities incubator, and believes that the in-depth cooperation between library and humanities will make it easier to achieve the balance and practicality between “digital” and “humanities”, helping to promote digital humanities projects on the application level. 

Finding the influential factors on the public perception and attitude towards the COVID-19 is conducive to improving the working mechanism for preventing and fighting the epidemic, reducing the interference of the epidemic on the production and life, and helping the government to introduce more targeted policies. Based on the survey results of the The Reaction of COVID-19 in Shanghai, this article took the public perception of the epidemic as the target variable, and used 12 variables such as occupation and education level as explanatory variables. Based on the CART and XGBoost model, we found out the important variables that cause the public to have different perceptions and attitudes, and re-evaluated whether the selected variables were reliable according to the model effect. With the help of association rules, the citizens affected by the COVID-19 were analyzed to identify the characteristics of this group. As the results showed, the expectation of income change as a result of the COVID-19, age and other variables were the main factors affecting perceived attitude. Therefore, judging the public’s psychological expectations, empathetic pain, and blind optimism or excessive pessimism are the key points that should be paid attention to at present. In addition, it is believed that people who think that the epidemic has an impact on life will generally spend a long time paying attention to the information of the epidemic, which will put too much pressure on themselves. They may have better education and be in good physical fitness, which means they may be more sensitive to the risk. Based on the findings above, this article comes up with some suggestions, such as strengthening employment guidance for the high-risk unemployed groups, making full use of new media publicity methods, and conducting appropriate psychological interventions on some specific groups.

Because of the COVID-19, more people are faced with the opportunities and challenges of digital survival. Combined with the new digital divide theory, this paper discusses the factors that affect the digital viability of users. This will help coordinate all parties involved to help residents use digital technology and network skills more flexibly to adapt to the living environment, improve their digital survival ability, and meet their needs of learning, work and life in the digital era. This study found that in Shanghai, a modern city with mature network infrastructure, there remains a multi-level ladder of digital inequality, despite the decreasing gap in terms of information and communication equipment. This inequality is embodied in the differences of digital viability due to various factors such as individual characteristics and family characteristics. It thus proposed to promote digital education while reinforcing digital governance, and to encourage younger generation to help the older. 

Exploring how executives perceive risk and take actions during the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia can help governments and relevant departments develop targeted measures, optimize enterprises’ response to the epidemic, and reduce the adverse impact of the epidemic on economic development. This paper first put forth assumptions based on the research of existing literature, and then identified society, finance, psychology, and health risk perception of executives as the independent variables, whereas executives’ actions during epidemic as the dependent variables, to construct a structural equation model to verify the proposed hypothesis. The study found that the financial and psychological risk perceptions of enterprise managers in the epidemic had a significant positive effect on positive epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic behavior, while the social and health risk perceptions a significant negative effect. Finally, it put forward suggestions that we should appropriately control the financial and psychological risks of enterprise managers and minimize social and health risks as much as possible.

Public government trust is critically important under major public health emergencies. This paper analyzes the mechanism of information communication factors on government trust, and enriches the existing research theories. Using the COVID-2019 survey jointly launched by the Shanghai Government Development Research Center and Peng Pai Research Institute, based on the 146 081 sample data and OLS regression method, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of public information concern, media trust and public government information disclosure satisfaction on government trust. The results show that public information concern about COVID-2019 has a negative impact on government trust, and the central government media trust, local government media trust and public information disclosure satisfaction have a positive moderation effect on public information concern and government trust, while social media trust has no significant moderation effect. From the perspective of information dissemination, this paper puts forward serveral policy recommendations to enhance government trust.

Professional Think Tank Research, written by Wang Shiwei, reveals the innovative development path of professional think tanks from the endogenous motivation and exogenous environment, and provides guidance for social science research and its researchers to raise their voice in scientific decision-making. It summarizes six major features of think tanks, including smart strategies and planning, profound academic skills, intelligence analysis capabilities and practices, frontier technology applications, publicity and policy education, prospective and predictive research. These criteria can also be used to evaluate social science researchers, and promote the healthy development of the professional teams. 

For five centuries, The History of the Kingdom of China has traditionally had a significant influence on the international academic community. The book shaped the first time a complete image of China for the Spanish Royal Family and the entire European society. The paper reviewed the investigation works specialized in this topic published in the Chinese context over 23 years from 1998 to 2020 and found that one of the principal problems was lack of justifications for the use of editions. In view of this, the paper examined the master copies of the English, Chinese and Spanish editions of the book of Mendoza, investigated their relations with the final revised Spanish edition promised by Mendoza, and pointed out the mistakes of Chinese scholars on their use of editions. The paper aims to provide Chinese scholars with detailed edition information about The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China.

Hu Shi and Gu Tinglong cooperated to study the authenticity of Shuijingzhu proofread by Quan Zuwang. The key to this study depends on the re-proofread edition colleted in Hezhong Library. Through their letters and Gu Tinglong’s Shou Zha Shi Yu, we can restore how Hu Shi gradually changed his views with the help of Gu Tinglong. Although Hu Shi finally revised his conclusion, he achieved the purpose of redressing the injustice for Dai Zhen. Hu Shi’s success in the study is built on the successful textual research method.

There is a fragmented red grid manuscript of Catalogue of Siku collected in Nanjing Library. It is written in ink, style of Gong Kai, official script, and proofread in red and black. Its number of lines and words is in line with the original copy of the Siku. The author compares it with four copies: the manuscript of Catalogue of Siku revised by Ji Xiaolan in Tianjin Library, the original manuscript of the Siku by Wenyuge, the copy of Zhejiang and the copy of Wuyingdian. It is found that the copy of Zhejiang is consistent with the copy in Nanjing Library, but different from the manuscript of Wenlan and Tianjin Library. In particular, given that some irrelevant and unattended texts in the copy of Zhejiang are the same as the copy of Nanjing Library, but different from the other copies, it can be confirmed that the copy of Nanjing Library is the base of the copy of Zhejiang. It is further proved that the copy of Zhejiang was not based on the manuscript of Wenlan, nor its other copies annotated with text, but based on the original Catalogue of Siku written by Siku Museum. The copy of Zhejiang is a collection, proofread on the transcript of Wenlan, and included the proofreading of Lu and Wang