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Bridging Digital Divide and Promoting Digital Inclusion: The New Mission of Libraries in the Information Society
Rao Quan, Christine Mackenzie, Gerald Leitner, Chen Chao, Wu Jianzhong, Yu Liangzhi, Amanda Reed, Kim M. Thompson, Xiao Long, Jin Wugang, Wu Dan, Liu Jing
Libraly Journal. 2021, 40 (2): 4-19.
DOI: 0.13663/j.cnki.lj.2021.02.001
In responding to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in
2030, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
recently launched the mutual commitment of Library Pledge for Digital Inclusion
and its Call to Action along with other international organizations. Domestic
and foreign library leaders and well-known experts and scholars discuss the
theme of Library and Digital Inclusion. RAO
Quan points out that with the development of modern technology, the digital
divide has become a growing problem. The National Library of China has put
forward an idea of building a “National Smart Library System”, to lead public
libraries to realize smart transformation and to play a more active role in
promoting digital inclusion; Christina
McKenzie explains that the purpose of this article is to describe the work of
the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in
supporting the United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
and in particular Goal 16: ‘Achieve peaceful and inclusive societies, access to
justice for all, and effective and capable institutions’, emphasizing how
governments and libraries must become active promoters of digital inclusion; Gerald Leitner points out that, any effort to
promote digital inclusion needs to consider all three aspects — connectivity,
content and competence. Without them, it is impossible to fully realize digital
inclusion. Through their role as public spaces in the heart of communities, as
storehouses and portals to content, and as experienced educators of information
literacy, library has a unique role to play in any wider government strategy in
the field; CHEN Chao points out that
both history and reality, theory and practice, have long taught us that public libraries
should shoulder the inescapable mission of promoting human society’s inclusive
development of human society. Public libraries must take on the responsibility
of “bridging the digital divide and promoting digital inclusion”, providing
everyone with the opportunity to go online and enabling everyone with equal
access to information and knowledge; WU
Jianzhong argues that we should actively participate in LFLA’s appeals and
initiatives and make a strong voice on behalf of the library community at home.
First, we should vigorously publicize our country’s policies and measures to
protect citizens’ rights to obtain basic public cultural services. Second, we
should actively promote the application of the Internet and digital
technologies in libraries. Third, we should continue to improve the quality of
media and information literacy services; Reflecting on the complexity of the
digital divide from the perspective of the individual’s information world
concept proposed; YU Liangzhi sees
social inclusion and digital inclusion as mutually conditioning and argues that
public libraries have greater potentials for contributing to digital inclusion
in this context than hitherto realized and recognized; XIAO Long argues that, while supporting the
statement on digital inclusion issued by IFLA, Chinese academic libraries
should be aware of the great information gap in a society and strive to reduce
the regional information gap, thus protecting the information rights and
interests of different groups and promoting the intensive development of higher
education; Amanda Reed and Kim
M.Thompson suggest that when crisis, changes, and challenges arise, it is also
time to take a step forward. Her essay provides examples from a US library to
demonstrate how public libraries can meet local needs and support sustainable
development of communities toward a more digitally inclusive society in face of
the COVID-19 crisis; JIN Wugang thinks
that the library should strengthen the function of popularization of science,
actively participate in the development of new media products, integrate into
the public media communication platform, help the public distinguish the
authenticity of online information, inquire and obtain correct information, and
solve the deeper issues in digital inclusion; Based on the current
technological changes; WU Dan and LIU
Jing focus on the interaction between human and technology . They extend the
connotation of digital inclusion through two paths. One is “technology→human”
and the other is “human→technology” and they also put forward the development
strategies for the field of LIS.
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Research on the Construction of MOOC
Teaching Quality Evaluation System from the
Perspectives of Students: Taking Academic
Information Literacy MOOC Courses as An
Example
Liu Ying, Ji Jiuming, Li Nan, Zeng Yuan, Li Jianxia, Zhu Shiqin, Kang Jian
Libraly Journal. 2021, 40 (2): 95-103.
From students’ perspectives, the paper constructed a MOOC teaching evaluation system that
involves evaluations of faculty team, teaching content, curricular design, teaching resources and support,
and teaching effect. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method was used to calculate index weights, whereas
fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method used to evaluate the teaching quality of information literacy
MOOC courses offered by Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, Sun YatSen University, and East China University of Science and Technology. We performed analysis on the main
factors that affect the teaching quality of such classes from students’ perspectives. Moreover, we revealed
the advantages and disadvantages of the MOOC classes on information literacy of the four schools based
on evaluations.
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Digital Humanities: A New Form of
Redistribution of Academic Materials
Zhou Jianxin, Tan Fuqiang
Libraly Journal. 2021, 40 (2): 104-110.
This paper attempts to understand the redistribution of academic materials by way of digital
humanities from the perspective of “private-shared” consumption of academic materials. The study
maintains that, first of all, digital humanities produce a response to the inherent contradictions of traditional
humanities and scholars, trying to correct the negative externalities of the use of academic materials by
technical means without sacrificing the “inherent property rights” of these materials. Secondly, digital
humanities are the product of the union and agglomeration between scholars and scholars, between scholars
and academia, between academia and technology, and between the rational calculation and value diffusion.
It is not a pure academic phenomenon or a pure technical means, but a result from the embedding of
academics and technology. Finally, digital humanities are one of the forms in which academic groups reallocate academic materials. After sharing the right to use individual data, it breaks through the marginal
growth effect of “private” data consumption and contributes to the diffusion of academic resources, which
is consistent with fair distribution. On this basis, digital humanities can be considered as a form of academic
information redistribution based on technology and humanities.
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Construction of Characteristic Database Based
on the Information Resources of Palm Leaf
Manuscripts
Cai Mengling
Libraly Journal. 2021, 40 (2): 111-116.
The palm leaf manuscript is an important human cultural heritage with much value in history,
religion, culture and science. Due to its materials, preservation environment, and so forth, the palm
leaf manuscript is in a state of severe endangerment. Digitizing and constructing the database of palm
leaf manuscripts have a positive significance for protecting and inheriting their value. Considering the
characteristics of palm leaf manuscripts, and lessons from foreign theoretical and practical research on
the database of palm leaf manuscripts, the paper discusses the construction of characteristic database of
palm leaf manuscripts in China, in terms of resource selection, information collection, data processing, and
retrieval. It highlights the characteristics of such database, such as the three-dimensional rendering as well
as the full-text retrieval in multiple languages.
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A Research on Shi Xi, A Lost Essay Catalogued
in The General Survey of Literature and
History
Li Chengqing
Libraly Journal. 2021, 40 (2): 123-128.
Shi Xi, a lost essay catalogued in The General Survey of Literature and History in Collection
of Zhang’s Writings printed by Jia Ye Tang was not lost. It was actually included in The Complete Works
of Shi Zhai printed by the House of One Hundred Thousand Books. This essay, first discovered by Zhou
Zuoren in the above codex in 1942, was published on the first page in the 2nd volume of Journal of National
Compilation and Translation Hall of North China in 1943. However, it was not widely appreciated because
of the Japanese invasion, and the discovery did not attract the attention of the academic circle at that time.
Now The Complete Works of Shi Zhai by the House of One Hundred Thousand Books is stored in the
National Library of China, and Shi Xi is in the fifth volume. Nevertheless, Shi Xi is not the first draft of
“Zhi Nan”, the internal chapter of The General Survey of Literature and History, as Zhou Zuoren’s epilogue
said, but the first draft of Gan Yu. A comparative textual study of 16 ambiguous sentences in Shi Xi and
Gan Yu assumes that Zhang Xuecheng adopted different ways to revise his works with deletion and polish.
Moreover, the study also reveals the changes in Zhang’s academic thoughts and his state of mind.
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