Based on four oral historical interviews and related literature, this paper introduces and summarizes the academic resume of Professor Zheng Lili, who is an outstanding library scholar in China, from three aspects: the decision of studying children’s librarianship, the creation of a special course for children’s library, and the adherence to the research of children’s librarianship. Firstly, this paper analyzes the reasons why Professor Zheng Lili took children’s librarianship as her lifelong career. Secondly, her initiatives and contributions to children’s librarianship education is summarized: (1) she was the first person to start a special course for children’s library in China’s university; (2) she was one of the first scholars to put forward the concept of education for children’s librarianship; and (3) she was the main author of the textbooks for educating children’s librarians. In the end, this paper summarizes the academic achievements of Professor Zheng Lili. In a word, Professor Zheng Lili’s study experience and academic activities are combed and discussed in this paper. From a very micro perspective, the author hopes that the exploration and contributions made by early library scholars in the realm of children’s library can enrich the research content of children’s Librarianship in China, and provide reference for tracing back to the tradition of children’s librarianship education.

Sieu-mai Cheng was an important librarian in Taiwan, China, who devoted herself to the development of children’s libraries for many years. Using oral history interviews, documentary and historical methods, this paper outlines the life and career trajectories of Sieu-mai Cheng and summarizes her contributions to nurturing excellence, integrating the development of children’s libraries and children’s literature, and shaping advanced children’s librarians.

Due to the contestation and integration between the new and old scholarship in the Republic of China period, the book classification method transformed from the Chinese traditional four- part classification, to the antagonistic Sino-Western book classifications, and to their integration finally. Fu Xiongxiang proposed in his Book Classification of Hunan Provincial Zhongshan Library in 1929 that the classics should be categorized separately and constructed with multiple outlines, since it was practical and conducive to integrating the traditional and modern scholarship, as well as integrating Chinese and the Western ones. The proposal not only respected the tradition, but also was an significant transitional step towards the modern discipline system and knowledge system. Fu Xiongxiang’s porposal, with its objectivity and systematicness, became the “reformative school” influenced by Dewey’s “decimal method”, providing a reasonable path for the western librarianship to be localized in China.

Through literature retrieval and content analysis, this paper summarizes the research results of demand-driven acquisition (DDA) in American university libraries from the aspects of DDA models, effects and problems, mechanisms, processes, alliance and practices, so as to provide reference for Chinese university libraries to carry out DDA research and practice. DDA is a subversive traditional collection construction technology and has become the standard method of collection development in American university libraries. Although DDA cannot completely replace the existing collection development methods, it is indeed a beneficial supplement to the traditional collection development methods.

The development of library e-books distribution in China has rationally emphasized quality and copyright instead of emphasizing quantity only in the early stage. However, there are also many problems such as less variety of new books, low synchronization rate of paper and electronic books, nonuniform formats and standards, difficulties of integration, absence of pricing mechanism, and imbalance between supply and demand. Through analysis it was found that e-books acquisition and distribution have been facing four bottlenecks: copyright protection, market chains, new books purchasing and trading, and business application standardization. To optimize the application path of Chinese e-books acquisition and distribution, it proposes strategies in five ways, namely, building the National Copyright Certification Platform of e-books, carrying out flexible and diverse e-books sales mode, promoting the standardization of e-books marketing platforms, building a pricing mechanism, and implementing PDA procurement mode. 

Through the analysis and study of the relevant texts of the collection development of the top 10 famous university libraries, this paper put forward the key trends of the collection development of the world top university libraries, which will bring enlightenment and reference for the collection development of university libraries in China against the background of “Double First-Class” Initiative .

The special collection resources of university library is one of the important indexes reflecting the level of library resource development, the humanistic connotation and historical tradition of the university. Through literature research and prototype analysis, this paper proposes the “alumni original works archiving” as a supplement to the special collection development. This paper takes the journal of Southeast University Library, The Book Paradise, which integrates new media and traditional media, as an example. It reveals the collection content and way of display, as well as the construction and management of network platform and other work process, and explores a new approach and model of campus cultural special collection development. 

Based on the microblog data from 22 provincial public libraries, this paper divides these microblogs into three categories: information provision, relationship building and behavior guidance. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, the authors study the interactive effect, topic, frequency and user composition of different types of microblogs. The results show that 1) the microblogs on lucky draw activity, life & entertainment, questions & answers have good interaction effect; 2) the focus of user interaction is highly related to the content of library microblogs which involves a wide range of topics; 3) about 10% of users contribute about half of the interactive activities for the public library microblog community, and 4) non-authenticated users are the main population of interaction. The paper aims to analyze the interactive characteristics of microblog users of public libraries, and provides theoretical reference and operation suggestions for practitioners and researchers in this area. 

The governance of public libraries is a part of the national governance system, and the key to the governance of public libraries lies in the construction of the system. The construction of public library governance system in China has made important achievements, but there are still some problems, such as insufficient coverage, fragmentation, lack of self-consistency, and weak implementation. Under the theoretical guidance of “promoting the modernization of national governance system and governance ability” put forward by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, this paper probes into the objectives and characteristics of the construction of the governance system of grass-root public libraries in our country. This paper expounds the practice and thoughts of a grass-roots library in the concrete system design, such as stimulating librarians’ vitality, scientific and democratic decision-making, and interaction with society

As the period of implementing the 14th Five-Year Plan arrives, it has become an important and urgent task for every major public library to scheme and formulate their 14th Five-Year strategic plan. This paper surveyed the five domestic public libraries’ practice of formulating the 13th Five-Year Plan, summarized the basic knowledge of strategic planning, and studied the formulating of Foshan Library’s 14th Five-Year strategic planning as an example to explore the processes, methods, style and key content of the 14th Five-Year strategic plan formulation. It concluded that the formulation of such plan should closely follow the theme of high quality development, focus on the background of the era, highlight the characteristics of each library and strengthen the implementation of the plan, in order to provide reference for the public libraries which try to formulate mid-term and long-term strategic plans for the first time. 

Smithsonian Institution’s annual reports have centuries of history, which is rigorous and normative and can be used for reference by public cultural institutions in China. The paper takes the annual reports of Smithsonian Institution from 1846, when it was established, to 2019 as research subject, adopts content analysis, and carries out the research from four aspects, namely, compilation concept, constituent elements, statistical information and design format, so as to revealing the changes and development path. It is found that the annual reports gradually progress in three stages, with the compilation concept developing from “disclosure” to “marketing”, whereas more attention being paid to the public. The paper also sums up the experience of Smithsonian Institution and discusses the enlightenment brought to the related work of China: 1) persisting with compilation in long-term, ensuring open access; 2) promoting dynamic adjustment, exploring marketing function; and 3) saving core materials, constructing historical coordinate system.

Selecting Current Awareness, an information and communication magazine issued by the National Diet Library of Japan, as research subject, this article analyzes the themes and keywords of research papers it publishes, and reveals the development trend and status quo of multicultural services in Japanese libraries, namely, (1) the current multicultural services in Japanese libraries mainly focus on English-speaking countries, with less coverage of Asian countries, including China; (2) these services are mainly carried out by public libraries and university libraries; (3) the keywords of multicultural services include “children”, “youth”, “community”, “digitization” and “digital archives”, which reflect the essential characteristics of current library services. In the meantime, this article selects two latest practices for case study, and summarizes the opportunities and challenges of multicultural services in Japanese libraries

On the basis of the latest results of full-text searchable resources of CNBKSY, this paper explores the development of OCR-based digital resources services of modern literature, and makes suggestions from the perspectives of knowledge organization, function and service innovation, so as to make the best use of literatures and provide better services for readers and professionals. 

As a new methodology, digital humanities are increasingly being applied in visual art research. Image art analytics and computer generative art are the application hotspots in visualization domain. This paper collects and summarizes the current typical theories and application cases which will help promote the further exploration of digital humanities applied to the visualization domain. According to the literature and application practices, this paper defines and analyzes the concept and connotation of art analytics and computer generative art. And on the basis of pre-research, it studies the research methods, key technologies and scheme implementation of current results. As digital technologies, represented by artificial intelligence, are gradually applied to the art fields, the integration of art and digital will create more space for the art development. 

This paper explores the factors that lead to social media users’ fatigue and platform shifting behaviors which are conducive to the healthy and rapid development of social media network platforms. This study studies the causes of social media users’ fatigue and platform transfer behavior as the core subject, and starts with QQ users’ transfer to WeChat as the research breakthrough point. Based on the grounded theory, and on the 25 semi-structured interviews with heavy social media users, it investigates data after open coding, axial coding, selective coding and saturation test. It then explores why Tencent QQ users stopped using the software and went to WeChat platform. This paper builds social media users’ fatigue and behavior model, and also reveals and analyzes the main factors that lead to such fatigue and transfer behavior. Keywords Soci

The transcript kept in Shanghai Library is a newly discovered draft of Baoying Collection by Liu Baonan. Based on the sources of the five lost articles in this transcript, and the formation reason of this version, some clues can be found to reconstruct the compilation process of Baoying Collection. Liu Baonan continued the idea of an extensive collection of Liu’s Qing Fen Collection and tried to collect Baoying’s poems and essays to compile Search for Posthumous Works Collection. In this way, he changed the standard that the local anthology of Xiang Qiuji originally did not include special collections and presented the literary appearance of hometown. Liu Baonan also took the opportunity of compiling this book to perfect the family works included in it, and the transcript kept in Shanghai Library is a representative result. In the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang, Search for Posthumous Works Collection was roughly completed and renamed as Baoying Collection. However, this book was not formally compiled and published. In the end, the book was lost. Although the transcript kept in Shanghai Library is a periodical version, it is also the final version with a special documentary value to fill the missing materials in the current research on Baoying Collection. In addition, clarifying the compilation process of Baoying Collection also provides an important case for studying the relationship between the family collections and regional compilations.

A Study of the Works of Women in the Past Dynasties compiled by Mr. Hu Wenkai is a general list of Chinese female writers’ works, and it is an important and required reference book for domestic and foreign scholars to study Chinese female literature. It has an enormous academic value, and even more valuable after Mr. Zhang Hongsheng and other scholars revised and enlarge it. However, there are some errors in this book, such as the writers’ names confused, incorrect style names and pseudonyms and repeat collection. 

The Manuscripts of Late Qing Dynasty Celebrity Diaries Collected in Suzhou Museum compiled and published by Suzhou Museum contains a book entitled Diary on the Way to the North in Ji Chou. The original edition has no author, and the Suzhou Museum has designated the author as a clansman of the Pan Family in Suzhou. Based on reading the whole book, the author uses the literature of genealogy, chronicle, chorography and the imperial examination paper to verify meticulously the characters and events in the diary. Thereby the work has verified that the author of this book is not a clansman of the Pan Family, but named Peng Tongsun, who is a clansman of the Peng Family in Changzhou, Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty. The work also analyzes the reason why the original author of Suzhou Museum is wrong. After determining the author, this paper also discusses the historical documentary value of Diary on the Way North in Ji Chou in famliy, imperial examination and society in the Late Qing Dynasty.