On December 11, 1937, the only comprehensive theoretical journal—The Masses weekly was publicized by the CPC in the Kuomintang ruled area during the Anti-Japanese War. The publication of the The Masses weekly was not only the result of the CPC’s long struggle for freedom of speech and other rights, but also the product of the second cooperation between the KMT and the CPC in the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. Although the The Masses weekly was able to be established in the Kuomintang District, its publishing and distribution were constantly hindered, disturbed, and destroyed by the KMT. The difficult founding process of The Masses weekly, and its irregular publication, and distribution during the period of the Anti-Japanese War proved that its growth was closely related to the relationship between the KMT and the CPC. In other words, The Masses weekly was a barometer of the relationship between the KMT and the CPC throughout the Anti-Japanese War.

The literature of Sichuan-Shaanxi soviet area is important material for the research of Chinese revolution history. This paper introduces the loss and reservation of such literature, their features and present situation, reviews the survey overview about them, narrates the ways of survey and compilation about the collections of historical literature in Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base, summarizes the merits and demerits of these publications and the inspirations for future.

The promulgation of the Public Library Law not only makes it possible for social forces to establish private libraries, but also legitimizes the latter. The establishment of private libraries has played a very important role in safeguarding the basic rights of citizens and promoting the sustainable development of the public library cause. However, the Public Library Law is not strong enough to regulate private libraries, and it is not specifically targeting at private library, making it difficult to effectively regulate and promote the development of private libraries. Therefore, Public Library Law should be amended to make a careful regulation on the basic principles, the main body, conditions and procedures, operation mechanism, support and guarantee, supervision and inspection, withdrawal and takeover of private libraries, so as to lay a legal foundation for the sustainable development of private libraries in China.

The Registered Reports in the open scientific environment has received extensive attention from worldwide academic and publishing industry. Revealing their publishing status and trends can reflect the research hotspots and changing path of the registered reports to some extent. Using comprehensive content and statistical analysis method, this paper analyzes the publishing characteristics and trends of the registered reports from six indicators: the distribution of published date/time, source journals, author and affiliation, citation frequency, research topics, and regions where authors are from. It then summarizes and extractes the basic characteristics of the registered reports. The current publishing characteristics and trends of the registered reports are as follows: the number of the published registered reports is increasing year by year; the source journals are concentrated in a few publishers; the institutions of the first authors of the registered reports are scattered in different areas; universities play a major role during its publishing and dissemination; the registered reports have formed a certain academic influence; they are mainly concentrated in the fields of medicine and psychology; and the regions where the registered reports are published are mainly developed countries.

Thematic catalogue of music works, as a kind of reference widely used in Western music studies, is the joint achievement of musicology and bibliography studies, which boasts a long historical tradition and rich academic value. With a focus on the tradition of compiling thematic catalogue of music woks in Western countries, this paper mainly discusses the influence of contemporary international cataloging principles on the standardization of music resource description. After pointing out the absence of such efforts in China, it further illustrates the necessity of academic, international, standard and standardized thematic catalogues for the development of professional music in China, and its great significance to the preservation, management, inheritance and sharing of China’s professional music resources.

The application of RFID technology is an important part of building a smart library. However, most of the existing RFID applications only utilize the features of the Internet of Things on the perception level, such as self-service borrowing and returning, collection inventory, security and anti-theft. Although this satisfies part of the needs of smart libraries, it leads the innovative application of RFID technology to a bottleneck, which is manifest especially in the complex management of collections. The emergence of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, data mining, cloud computing and robot, in recent years has given rise to new developments in the application of RFID technology in libraries. This article integrates the needs of collection management of smart library, explores the application potential of RFID technology in collection management after combining emerging technologies, and takes the Shanghai Jiao tong University Library as an example to design a new generation of smart collection management system, introducing the construction process and application practices.

Constructing the information ecological balance mechanism that adapts to the smart library’s development is of great significance to maintain the balance, stability and order of the information ecosystem and to promote the healthy, harmonious and sustainable development of the new generation of smart libraries. The information ecological balance mechanism of the smart library should be guided by the concept of intelligent perception, observe the principles of “concept innovation, process coordination,adaptation regulation, intelligent optimization”, constitute the basic elements including macroscopic planning and supervision mechanism, the information organization leading mechanism, the information symmetry and feedback mechanism, intelligent management service mechanism, intelligent prediction and risk resolution mechanism and adaptive response optimization mechanism. It should build an operation system where the subject, the demand and the action are effectively correlated, so as to enhance the selfadjusting, self-balancing and emergency response capability.

Deep learning and computer vision play an important role and is of great value in industrial upgrading; they are key technologies for constructing next-generation intelligent library. Pedestrian detection is an important research and application direction of this field. This work explores the application of pedestrian detection method to library for the first time, and discusses the important value
of the related applications in detail based on some real examples. The authors create the pedestrian detection representative method – YOLOv3 on open pedestrian databases, and successfully deploy the detection system in NWPU library. Some representative scenarios show that YOLOv3 can satisfy library needs both in terms of accuracy and of run-time performance. This work is a valuable attempt of applying
deep learning and computer vision technology in smart library field, and has good reference for utilizing related technologies in library.

This paper presents a literature review of the study on electronic resource usage and costrelateddata standards at home and abroad, introduces the analysis examples of electronic resource usage and cost-related data in Tsinghua University Library. It advocates that the application of electronic resource usage and cost-related data standards will be of great benefits to the normalized performance assessment of electronic resource usage, and the normalized life cycle management of electronic resource.

The nation calls for deepening corporate governance in public libraries, which clearly requires wider social participation. This paper probes into the socialization developments of public library via the practices of corporate governance in Wenzhou Library in recent seven years. It aims to provide inspirations for public library to get social support and to achieve wider society participation, while offering reference for other cultural institutions in terms of corporate governance reform.

In the construction of digital resources of historical cultural celebrities, a highly structured relational database is still regarded as a common storage model that is concise and effective. Therefore, it is necessary to explore an effective way to construct the knowledge graph based on relational database, so that study tour tracks of historical cultural celebrities can be visually reproduced and knowledge relevance can be dug out, which promotes the in-depth exploitation and utilization of related digital resources. From the perspective of digital humanities, the researches choos CBDB, character and works resources of Shanghai Library, local chronicles, character chronicle, etc as the data source. Based on the CBDB database framework,this study extracts and improves the relational data model of historical cultural celebrities’ study tour tracks.And then, it implements the process of data storage, data conversion and release, as well as browsing, querying and visualization by means of MySQL, Navicat, D2R, and LODLIVE. In the end, the construction and visualization of knowledge graph on study tour tracks of historical cultural celebrities is made. This research realizes the conversion from relational database to knowledge graph in a concise and effective way, which meets the demand of browsing, querying, and discovering knowledge in a visual way, laying the foundation for digital humanities researches on historical cultural celebrities.

The organization, storage and display of collection resources in the digital age are facing challenges. Based on GIS technology and methods, this article takes the Qingshui River document as an example. By extracting the geographical information contained in the Qingshui River document and standardizing it, the digital display, utilization and analysis are finally realized, in order to show that the local historical document resources are related to clustering and information. The data effects of automatic acquisition and spatial visualization can provide reference for the integration and utilization of local literature resources in the collection.

The paper is the first one to apply the concept of “citation identity” to the evaluation of interdisciplinary researches, and to explore more application potentials of “citation identity”, especially in discipline evaluation. Based on the informetric researches published in SSCI journals, this study adopts the citation analysis to understand the characteristics of current interdisciplinary research in LIS, and analyzes the recognition status of interdisciplinary research on LIS by external disciplines from multiple perspectives. It concludes that the current interdisciplinary researches cannot meet the needs of external disciplines;that the external disciplines have increased requirements on the timeliness of interdisciplinary research on informetrics; that the breadth of interdisciplinary research in informetrics needs to be broadened; that the external disciplines gradually favor interdisciplinary researches of informetric based on academic search engine, social network and visual presentation; and that the way of scientific research cooperation and the evaluation method of scientific research fund still needs to be optimized.

This paper analyzes the development trend and hot spots of bioinformatics in the world,provides literature support for researchers in the field, and offers suggestions and guidance for the development of bioinformatics in China in the future. Based on the 11 international bioinformatics journals published from 1998 to 2019 by SCIE, the authors adopt the bibliometrics method to describe the issuing countries and institutions. Histcite and Pajek are used to analyze the literature from 1998 to 2014, whereas the main path is elaborated through visual analysis. BICOMB and gcluto are then used to conduct keyword clustering analysis on literature from 2015 to 2019 to explore research hotspots. According to the literature information in the citation chronology chart and the main path chart, the research hotspots in 9 aspects of bioinformatics from 1998 to 2014 are summarized and 3 main paths are selected. 6 research hotspots in the field of bioinformatics from 2015 to 2019 are obtained.

The dataset of book reservation service at Fudan University between 2009 and 2018 was mainly collected from the library integrated management system ALEPH500. The content covers the reservation log data, related bibliographic and collection information, and patron information. It has 26 fields, and 410 000+ records that are complete, accurate and scalable. This dataset has rich application and research value for studying the user behavior, reading tendency and collection optimization of universitylibraries.

The history book Renwu Pinghai Ji collected by the Library of Congress of the United States,is of great value to the study of the history of the late Ming Dynasty, ocean history and local history of Shanghai. However, after investigation, this book is incomplete. Not only the content of the text is incomplete, but also the lack of preface and woodblock print Pinghai Tu. Pinghai Tu is now kept in private collector in China. It is suggested that Pinghai Ji and Pinghai Tu should be published together in the future to maximize the important historical value contained therein.

Zhou Lianggong had a close relationship with Nanjing literati from the late Ming Dynasties.He became a renegade official after entering the Qing Dynasty. In the early reign of Emperor Kangxi,he already had extraordinary political achievements and social status. In the cultural reconstruction in the early Qing, Zhou Lianggong used his personal relationship to make Zhang Yi and Gao Cen join the governmental project to compile Jiangning Fuzhi. The latter two had good reputations as adherents of the former dynasty, and promoted the publication of this gazetter. From the case of Jiangning Fuzhi, we can see that the renegade official Zhou Lianggong connected the new regime with the local literati who entered the Qing Dynasty from the Ming Dynasty. He moderated the tense cultural atmosphere in Nanjing and made it possible for adherents to cooperate with the new government. Together, the adherents of the former dynasty and new government built the city culture of Nanjing in the early Qing. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in front of the change of dynasties, the renegade officials, such as Zhou Lianggong, took the role to ease the contradictions and became an important part in the formation of new governance.

As an important representative of the ancient book industry in Shanghai in the Republic of China,Liu Rongcun in Bo Gu Zhai had a lot of research on the editions of ancient books. It not only purchased a large number of rare ancient books, but also carefully photocopied numerous ancient books series. It often had book trading activities with many scholars in the period of the Republic of China. The Eye Records of Ancient Books, compiled by Liu, recorded many good versions of ancient books. It is a rare and good book, which has never been concerned. This book provides essential information to study the delivery and the origin of editions of rare ancient books and has significant academic value.

The Buddhist play Guiyuanjing written by Monk Zhida has been widely circulated from the early Qing period until today. Its historical reception illustrates the dynamic interactions between Buddhism and theater in early modern China. There are multiple editions of Guiyuanjing, which have not yet received sufficient scholarly attention. Based on my archival research at libraries in Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States, I discovered several editions that had never been recorded before and summarized two systems of the woodblock prints in the Qing Dynasty. In this article, I argue that the Zhaoqing Monastery edition was published in the late Qing, rather than in the early Qing as previous studies have stated. The publication of the Zhaoqing Monastery edition demonstrates how different Buddhist monasteries in Zhejiang province collaborated to publish books in the nineteenth century. I also show that the 1784 Beijing Dragon King Temple edition was adapted to the conventions of performing large-scale plays at the Qing court. Drawing on a close reading of these editions, this article explores the hybrid nature of sacred andsecular characteristics of Guiyuanjing.