This article explores the history, current status, and future perspectives of the literature of American public library history. The author divides the literature into four stages: the first stage (1850-1930), the second (1931-1972), the third (1973-1994), and the fourth (1995- ). Each stage has definite characters affected by social circumstances and studies of general and educational history. The author points out that library historians are introducing “Whiteness Studies” in their research.

In the initial stage, the idea of deinstitutionalization promoted the development of library science, but then produced the negative effect, giving rise to the phenomena of “generalization” and “weakening”. The paper explains the origin and development of the deinstitutionalization and points out that we must recognize the mission of library science that goes back to its very beginning is an important topic.

The Protocol for Exchanging Serial Content (PESC) issued by the American National Standards Institute (NISO) can help the publishers, publisher agents, and discovery service organizers to solve some problems such as inconsistent formats, difficult exchanges, lack of content, and inefficiency in the process of mass transfer and exchange between different organizations. In this paper, the background of PESC, the specification of its content package’s format structure, the consistency of different levels of PESC, the effective implementation guide of PESC, and the lessons for China’s industry standards are elaborated in detail to advance the library community in China. The understanding of the PESC protocol enhances the possibility of low-cost and efficient content exchange between parties in the continuous publishing process. At the same time, it also has important reference value for the establishment and implementation of a standardized and unified exchange protocol standard for continuous publishing content in China’s library community

PDA has been applied to printed book acquisition and quasi-PDA acquisition modes have appeared in China. “You select books, and I pay” is a representative trend that grows in scale and takes a bigger proportion of funds. This paper analyzes the professional thinking of collection construction and compares PDA with quasi-PDA modes in terms of collection content and collection structure. It holds that quasi-PDA mode transfers library’s acquisition right to readers, and that, although it meets the personalized needs of readers to some extent, the quality of the purchased books is difficult to guarantee whereas hidden risks exist to collection system. Libraries should seek professional methods for the development of socialized management of literature, establish a professional quasi-PDA selection mechanism, balance the relationship of user demand and literature value, improve the expertise of librarians, and optimize quasi-PDA mode in a multi-mode and multi-level way, so as to improve the development of library collection. 

The expansion of rights brought by the protection of technological measures challenges the long-term preservation of digital resources in libraries. Since the WCT and WPPT recognized the protection of technical measures in 1996, European and American copyright legislation, while implementing this principle, have set limitations and exceptions to technical measures for libraries to meet the needs of library development in the digital age. Based on a theoretical analysis of the nature of technical measures and the protection of copyright technical measures, the article compares the relevant legislative practices of the United States, the European Union, and China. This paper holds that there is inadaptability between the protection of technical measures and the digital preservation of libraries in the current copyright law of China. It is suggested to add restrictions and exceptions to technical measures applicable to libraries in the new legislative activities. 

This study starts with the structure of digital resources procurement contract. It analyses the existing preferences and blind areas of libraries in the current digital resources procurement, further expounds the causes and importance of the terms of subject packages, and points out that the purchase of subject packages is essentially the result of a specific contract concluded by the high sales strategy of database providers and the pursuit of low selection cost of libraries in the interests of win-win. The contract structure of 11 journal databases jointly collected by DRAA is analyzed. The number, price and variety of subject packages are studied. Three indexes are designed—degree of freedom F, zero integral ratio coefficient P, and repetition rate coefficient Q—to scientifically reflect the rationality and scientificity of the contract, which provides a quantifiable reference standard for the standardization of digital resource contracts.

Under the increasingly drastic external environment, the requirements to develop information literacy education could not be resolved by library alone. Therefore, to enhance students’ core information literacy, it is necessary to construct an information literacy education ecosystem involving multiple parties, such as subject faculty, librarians, faculty center’s staff and other personnel. Based on the analysis of the environment supported with policy, information technology, content and training objective, the connotation and structure model of information literacy education ecosystem are put forward by means of the ecology theory. Under specific conditions, whether the dynamic equilibrium could be formed among its communities, and whether the communication channels could be kept open smoothly and stably for material cycle, energy flow and information exchange are the foundation and precondition for the ecosystem to run well and realize its functions.

This paper uses online survey to investigate the current situation of MOOCs on information literacy and analyze their development through curriculum scale and distribution, team building, teaching design and content. The study found existing MOOCs’ structure of curriculum content is decided by target learners. Their ways of organizations and team collaboration are homogenous and their core content skilloriented, and information retrieving system tend to adopt blended modes. The established MOOCs have some problems such as lacking of generality, collaborating within a small scope, out-of-proportion content setting, some outdated content and lack of authoritative assessment system. Therefore, this paper offers some suggestions that future MOOCs should take into consideration, such as that MOOCs’ target learners should be specific; that collaboration should be strengthened; that the proportion of course content should be adjusted; that the curriculum should be dynamic; and that authoritative assessment system should be built.

International academic cooperation can improve the efficiency of scientific research, and promote knowledge innovation. Exploring the contribution of a nation in international co-authored papers is thus of great significance to reflect the influence of that nation in the field and to improve the international cooperation. This paper constructs an analysis model of the academic contribution of international coauthors and countries from the perspective of both value and content. Taking China as the key research object and Web of Science as the data source, this paper analyzes the academic contribution of China in the field of information science and library science in the past ten years by constructing an international coauthor network and combining the formula of academic contribution, and reveals the evolution of topics of Chinese academic participation in the form of knowledge map. The results show that, in terms of numerical value, the academic contribution of China in the first stage is small, but in the second stage, China continues to make great efforts to become a rising star in international cooperation, and the academic contribution is second only to that of the United States. Meanwhile, in terms of content, through the evolution from theoretical research to technological innovation, the participating academic topics are diversified and indepth. 

At present, the academic circle mostly evaluates the influence of academic journals from the static perspective, and lacks relevant research from the dynamic perspective. With the the principle of Newton’s second law in mind, this paper aims to explore the indexes and methods for evaluating the dynamic influence of academic journals, and to study it from three perspectives——the impact speed, acceleration and impact strength. Taking CSSCI economics journal as the research object, and based on the citation database of CNKI, it conducts the correlation analysis, regression analysis and Kappa consistency test, and reveals in the end that impact strength 1) can be used as a new journal evaluation index; 2) has a good distinction; and 3) has a positive correlation with h index and citations per article. The paper thus proposed to evaluate journals based on impact speed, acceleration and impact strength.

As the most important breakthrough in scientometrics in this century, the research on H-type indices has become one of the most important research focuses in the field of scientometrics and research evaluation both in china and over the world in the past 10 years. In the book H-type Indices and H-type Measures, Star X. Zhao and the co-authors summarize H-index and H-type measures that are characterized by the core concept of H-index. It is a must-read for the academia to understand H-index, H-type measures, evaluation index and even scientometrics.

This paper comprehensively analyzes and endorses the unique structure and wonderful cases of Reading to Dispel Mental Disease, the latest masterpiece by Gong Meiling, a senior reading therapist in China. It collects statistics of seven major psychological problems and mental disorders existing in college students in China, and makes a systematic analysis of and induction to their causes and clinical manifestations, so as to obtain a complete set of golden prescriptions to all kinds of mental diseases. The paper demonstrates the great effect and therapeutic mechanism of reading therapy in addressing college students’ mental problems, and concludes that this book can be a good remedy for contemporary college students.

Collection of the Unusual Individual Works in Qing Dynasty Stored in Cai Shan Lou (《采山 楼藏稀见清人别集丛刊》) edited by Luo Lu (罗鹭) includes twenty unusual Individual Works from the Qing Dynasty. It seems to be an insignificant book compared to other books in the Qing Dynasty published in recent years. However, it is an important book based on all his book collection activities, studying his performance, ideas and the significance of his collection. The book is an important fruit of contemporary folk collection and protection of ancient books, and it will have a significant impact in the future.

Sun Chengze’s Shui Li Shu (Water Conservancy), collected in the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto, is the only extant copy that we know at the moment. However, according to An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Rare Books in the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto, the book is considered a pseudograph. It is misunderstood as Jiu Zhou Shan Shui Kao, another book by Sun Chengze. A survey reveals that Sun Chengze’s descendants transcribed Shui Li Shu, collected in the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto. Obviously, it is not the same book as Jiu Zhou Shan Shui Kao. Shui Li Shu is an important book written by Sun Chengze on water conservancy, and is a book of high academic value.

The Classic of Tea of the Baichuan Xuehai edition from the Song Dynasty is one of the earliest editions preserved. The book’s fine printing and the beautiful seals on it are highly valuable for editorial and artistic research. The book is collected by renowned artists, such as Cheng Sui, Jin Nong, Zhang Daqian, and famous book collectors, including Tang Yue. The book’s seals help verify the collectors and their relations and highlight the book’s value as a rare edition and a history text.