What is classics? The answer is the logical starting point of basic theoretical research on the promotion of classic reading and of even reading by the whole society. This paper makes a multi-perspective inquiry of and conducts an in-depth discussion on “what is classics” from different perspectives such as classical exegetics, time and space view, classification view and literature view.

National Association of Scholars (NAS) has conducted an authoritative reading survey on the “Common Reading Program” of American colleges and universities since 2010. By studying annual reports since 2010, we analyze the institutes, the types and publication time of common reading books, the most frequently selected books, as well as expounding the characteristics of the “Common Reading Program”, and revealing its existing problems, so as

As the most active period of female reading in ancient China, a large number of female reading paintings emerged in the Qing Dynasty. This article tries to analyze the reasons of female reading paintings and explore the necessary premise of cultural and creative product development. From the perspective of literary background, artistic expression form, function and image meaning, this article analyzes the important conditions for developing the female reading paintings into cultural and creative products of the library, and seeks the concrete ways to expand the development of such cultural and creative products.

There are few studies exploring the professionalization of library work from the perspective of female librarians. The professional development of American children’s library service is closely related to female librarians. This paper tries to discuss the relationship between women and career development. The rise of women themselves and the development of children’s library are interrelated. Being discriminated as a second gender, female librarians united together and formed a group of their own characteristics. The better understanding of children and of books, which are the two key factors in the development of children’s library services, helps female librarians establish their professional status. The female librarians made a collective voice and reserved their right to choose books through the “the defense of fiction” and the “the defense of the Newbery Children’s Book Award”. Female librarians have played an active role in promoting the professionalization of children’s library in the United States, which is reflected in three aspects: the formation of children’s library service professional knowledge system, the

Women have made an outstanding contribution to children’s library practice and education, but their status and value have always been undervalued. This overview is based on literature of female children’s librarians in the United States and classifies all the views into two categories: those investigating librarianship with gender as a variable and those investigating women in the workplace with career as a variable. These literature provide a lot of valuable material and viewpoints, but the research paradigm for imitation is not yet mature. A focus on leaders and elites, lack of comparison, and ignoring the social context are the major shortcomings.

Early identification and post-introduction assessment of overseas returning talents have attracted much attention during the construction of the “Double World-Class” universities. So it is of great significance to quantify and measure the academic competitiveness of returning overseas talents. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used in this paper to construct an academic competitiveness evaluation model based on bibliometric indicators. An empirical and multi-dimensional evaluation aimed at academic competitiveness of 103 returning overseas talents in a university was conducted to verify the effectiveness of the evaluation method and explore its application in the early identification of highly competitive returning overseas talents. The “four-dimensional evaluation method” based on bibliometrics can effectively outline the overall picture of the academic competitiveness of returning overseas talents, which can provide important reference for talent introduction.
Keywords Talent introduction, Academic competitiveness

Through the research on the data of readers’ participation in book acquisition in the library of Liaoning Petro chemical University in the past four years, this paper reveals the influence of readers’ participation in book acquisitions on the utilization rate, collection structure, universality and collection quality of books, so as to provide data support for scientific examination of its role and value and to provide reliable adjustment basis for further development in the future.

Short video has become one of the most frequently used mobile applications by users. It has the characteristics of vivid content, rapid dissemination and fragmentation, which meeeets the neeeeds of library marketing. The article investigates the topic of the library on the Tik Tok short video platform, the certification of library institutions, and the “985 Project” university accounts, analyzes the public opinion environment for library to conduct short video marketing, and builds a neural network prediction model for fans and likes, in order to explore the deep-seated factors that increase the influence of the library’s short videos. Take the East China Normal University Library as an example, the paper proposes a short video marketing strategy, in the hope of providing reference for the upcoming wave of library’s short video marketing.

With the continuous development of library’s poverty alleviation service, the related theoretical research has also popped up. This paper attempts to analyze the academic research achievements related to library’s poverty alleviation service from the four dimensions of overall trend, radiation impact, geographical distribution and focus. Combined with the statistical data and content theme, the paper sorts out the research progress and studies especially the research focus, so as to facilitate the understanding of the academic frontier and the search for new academic growth points, as well as the development of library’s poverty alleviation service and of the related research in future.

In the newly discovered centennial old Guihai Nian Gengliubu, the Southeast Asia routes, especially Siam Bay route, are highly consistent with Zheng He’s voyages. Because Zheng He’s nautical chart did not leave the provisions of zhenlu in Siam Bay, it is difficult to verify the place names. Some scholars’ textual research reached the conclusions that the important islands and reefs such as Daheng, Xiaoheng, Bijia, Guishan in the Siam Bay are very different from those in the New Version of Zheng He’s Nautical Atlas. After conducting a digital humanistic textual research on the related zhenlu, it was found that there were unreasonable textual research conclusions in both of them. The author puts forward the corrective opinions on important misinterpretation of the relevant documents, and proposes comprehensive digital humanistic research suggestions on the sea road and compass course of all Chinese dynasties represented by Zheng He’s Nautical Chart.

More and more domestic colleges and universities offer courses and even Master Degree in digital humanities.Digital humanities has become an important part of the “new liberal arts” education in average universities. It is very meaningful to learn from European universities with a history of more than 20 years in regard of their education model of digital humanities. Adopting a combination of network research, literature research and content analysis, this article uses the relevant publications of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) as the data basis, selects 5 typical universities that carried out digital humanities education early.It systematically researched and summarized their relevant experience, mainly from department setup, degree setting, curriculum system, and faculty, for detailed analysis. Finally, based on the actual situation of China, the article puts forward suggestions

This paper mainly takes the Dunhuang paper manuscripts as examples to explore the types and naming of Jielan based on its formation history.

At present, scholars pay little attention to the types and functions of the ancient blank papers in Dunhuang manuscripts. Few scholars make special research on the blank papers for mending from the perspective of codicology. Based on the Dunhuang manuscripts collected in the National Library of China, the author discusses the form, quantity and source of the blank papers for mending, as well as the type and nature of the blank papers.

Da Cheng Bai Fa Ming Men Lun Kai Zong Yi Ji written by Tan Kuang, a monk of Hexi in the Tang Dynasty, is one of the commentaries on Mahayana’s Bai Fa Ming Men Lun. According to our comprehensive investigation into the published images of Dunhuang manuscripts, there are 76 manuscripts of Kai Zong Yi Ji in total and most of them are fragments. Based on the comparative analysis of contextual consistency, splicing broken characters, hang kuan accordance, handwriting, calligraphy style similarity and paper quality, we patch up 38 fragments into 13 groups. This work provides a preliminary information basis for sorting out and studying Kai Zong Yi Ji in the future.

The Dunhuang manuscript BD08263 named Notes on Vajra Prajnaparamita Sutra is the second processing by the transcribers with the notes added betwee n the lines of the original Vajra Sutra. The transcribers only annotated some sentences or words instead of the full text of the scriptures of Vajra Sutra. The interpretation is concise and clear with quite a Zen style. Their purpose should not be to lecture, but to a greater extent reflect their learning notes when reading Vajra Sutra. Compared with the relatively institutionalized materials such as monks chanting and testing sutras in Dunhuang documents, this annotation is a relatively more personalized document with a unique value for researching the reading history of Buddhist scriptures in the Tang Dynasty.