Time Press is a publishing house co-founded and co-operated by the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China in Shanghai in 1941. The press published many red documents in Chinese, Russian and English, such as Daily War News and Time Daily, magazines such as Time and Soviet Literature and Art, and a large number of translated literary works. During the anti-fascist war, the press disseminated the latest news of the worldwide anti-fascist war to the Chinese people and introduced the Russian Revolution and the revolutionary literature and art, giving spiritual inspiration to the people in a closed state. In the War of Liberation, the press truthfully reported how the People’s Liberation Army under the leadership of the Communist Party won victory step by step, strengthening the people’s confidence in victory. In addition, Time Press trained a number of talents speaking Russian, making important contributions to the cultural exchanges between China and the Soviet Union.

Red China was an newspaper of the Soviet Central Government during the Second Civil War, and an important document for the study of Party history and revolutionary history. This article combs and studies the current situation of sorting and publishing from the three aspects of photocopying, typography and indexing, and on this basis, puts forward the research ideas for the development and utilization of Red China from three aspects: the history of news and propaganda of the Communist Party of China, the history of military conflicts, and the history of health and epidemic prevention.

Shanghai, Jiaxing, Ji’an, Ganzhou, Zunyi, Yan’an and other cities are important node cities in the history of the Communist Party of China and have become important memorial sites in the Party’s history. In order to Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, the domestic library community has joined forces to actively organize related reading promotion activities and make fruitful efforts in carrying out red cultural heritage and red literature reading promotion. Certainly, limited to subjective and objective conditions, there are inevitably some shortcomings and limitations. The formation and emergence of the “Red Library Consortium” provides a new institutional model for the promotion of red cultural reading. In the future, public libraries can use the platform of the alliance to make substantial improvements in the construction of special collections of red literature and the form of innovative activities, to achieve the sustainable development of reading promotion.

Social think tank is an important part of new think tank with Chinese characteristics. Through the construction of talent mechanism, their innovation vitality and knowledge service ability can be enhanced. Based on the theory of innovation-driven development, this paper establishes an innovation-driven talent mechanism model of social think tanks combined with the talent mechanism research framework of social think tank, and analyzes the application of the model through network survey and case study. The innovation-driven talent mechanism model of social think tank is an organic network system, which is driven by four innovation elements: knowledge innovation, human capital innovation, institutional innovation, and cultural innovation, and is centered on talent flow, and formed by five constituent elements: talent flow, talent introduction, talent cultivation, talent use, talent evaluation and incentive. The application analysis shows that the talent mechanism of foreign social think tanks is relatively mature, and the four innovation elements can effectively drive the five constituent elements. Among them, knowledge innovation drives the cultivation of various professional talents, human capital innovation drives the improvement of the efficiency of various talents using, institutional innovation drives the enhancement of talent evaluation and incentive performance, and cultural innovation drives the introduction of diversified talents. The innovation elements also drive the talent flow to promote the interaction of the constituent elements, forming a talent mechanism for sustainable development. It is suggested that China’s social think tanks should apply the model and learn from foreign advanced experience to give full play to the four innovation elements, and promote the healthy development of the talent mechanism construction of new social think tank with Chinese characteristics.

This research investigates how “women’s studies” is categorized in the following 4 bibliographic classifications: Library of Congress Classification (LCC), Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), and Chinese Library Classification. Then, a comparative study is conducted to evaluate the responsiveness of the bibliographic classifications above to the emerging interdisciplinary fields. Finally, suggestions are provided such as establishing a regular revision mechanism for the Chinese Library Classification, enhancing research on information organization and service in interdisciplinary fields, and paying attention to the social and cultural correlation among classes.

On the basis of historical materials, including newspapers, journals, and university magazines, this paper makes a critical study of the history of Department of Library Science of Shanghai National University, especially its beginning and ending, faculty, curricula, teaching practices, academic achievements and unique characteristics. It points out that, although lasting for only three semesters and failing to cultivate any graduates, the department was the second of its kind offering library science program in China, and thus occupied an important position in the history of library science education in China.

This paper makes a historical review of the relationship between Shanghai Library and the Shanghai Cross Strait Academic and Cultural Exchange Promotion Association, and makes a phased and specific record of the development history of the Shanghai Cross Strait Academic and Cultural Exchange Promotion Association.

This paper evaluates the WeChat public platforms of 11 academic journals in the library and information science (LIS) field, in order to verify the effectiveness and reliability of the evaluation index system, and to explore the promotion strategies of the WeChat public platforms of academic journals. With reference to the evaluation index system, the construction and operation status of the academic journals’ WeChat public platforms were investigated, by means of network survey. And on this basis, the format, content and utility dimensions were comprehensively evaluated by experts. As it revealed, the “All-around” Evaluation System can comprehensively and effectively evaluate the operation and service effectiveness of the WeChat public platforms of academic journals. The paper also put forward the promotion strategies for the WeChat public platforms of academic journals from three aspects, namely, format, content and
utility.

The current situation of Chinese eBooks bibliographic data disclosure is investigated. The purpose is to provide reference for standardizing Chinese eBooks bibliographic metadata and improving user retrieval experience and reading experience. Chinese eBooks platforms are studied by means of network survey in terms of their bibliographic data disclosure, the standardization of description, and the data relevance. Three core elements, title, creator and description, are revealed on 11 platforms, whereas source, association, range of time and space are not revealed. There are more normative problems about title and creator. The linked data is not disclosed widely, especially the data on knowledge organization tools. The paper concludes with several proposals. Namely, more elements can be included according to the information source; library catalogers must strictly abide by the cataloguing rules; and the eBooks

Source of information is a source of data from which a description is prepared. It is the basis of data selection in description. Compared with the original RDA, instructions on source of information in the new RDA have changed significantly in terms of concept, form and content. Instructions on source of information in the original RDA are for the source of the description data. Instructions on source of information in the new RDA are included in the instructions on data provenance. Instructions on data provenance are for the description of metadata work, which can be said to be an upgraded version of instructions on source of information in the original RDA. It embodies the orientation of linked data application and the concept of internationalization, openness and inclusiveness in the new RDA.

The popularity of micromedia among university users has brought new opportunities for the development of subject librarian service. A survey on the current situation and habits of micromedia users was carried out by chemistry subject librarians in Beijing Normal University Library. Based on the results of survey, Weibo,WeChat, QQ, micro-video and other micromedia are used as the channels to discover users’ need and to carry out subject service. It also relies on users’ deep participation to generate subject service content. Then the micromedia service system of chemistry subject based on user time and user identity is constructed. The survey results and service system can provide reference for the practice of subject librarian service in university libraries.

Under the guidance of Acceptance Criteria of the Third National Public Cultural Service System Demonstration Plots, public libraries have carried out innovative practices in the construction of library networks, literature and digital resources, reading promotion services and management reform. Public libraries have taken the lead in implementing the national policies and revealed a trend of cross-industry and inter-agency development. A breakthrough has been made in the participation of social forces in the construction of facilities and networks, and the service efficiency of public libraries has been effectively improved.

A Hubei migrant worker leaving a message for the Dongguan Library and the unexpected consequence ignited public opinion hotspots. The author, as the editor of Dongguan Library’s social media, reflected on the incident from the following aspects: Weibo, public opinion, the response of a single library, and the behavior of library industry. The author used WH/T 84-2019 Information and Documentation Public Library Impact Evaluation Process and Method to evaluate the case, and concluded that 1. Weibo is the place of origin of public opinions; 2. Responses to public opinions should reflect library’s professional value; 3. Industry standards can be used to evaluate the practice and analyse public events as well as clearly demonstrating the influence of public libraries. In this case, the economic value was estimated to be about 62 million RMB.

Neo Confucianism has a profound influence on the development of Chinese traditional culture. Through the analysis of the thoughts of Er Cheng, Zhu Xi, Wang Yinglin, Cheng Duanli and Lu Shiyi, on reading, this paper studies the evolution of Neo Confucianism thoughts on reading, and puts forward some solutions to the current situation and problems of reading promotion of classics. Referring to the purpose of Neo Confucianism reading thought and the significance of Xiao Xue in dealing with five kinds of social relations, this paper holds that in the reading promotion of Chinese traditional culture, Xiao Xue should be used to carry out reading promotion activities among college freshmen to help college students solve the problem of “lacking the basic education of morality and ethics” under the examination oriented education, so as to make them a people with moral cultivation. At the same time, it puts forward the reading promotion bibliography of Neo Confucianism.

This study takes Shanghai university students as an example to investigate the current status of college students reading the Chinese classics in the new era, with a focus on the reading motivation. This study indicates: gender and age are the influencing factors of reading motivation; reading motivation is a multi-dimensional construct, including two categories and six dimensions (namely, extrinsic motivation such as social interaction, self-development and identification with others, and intrinsic motivation such as self-interests, digital media, and emotional needs); Social interaction is the most important dimension of reading motivation; and gender, age, academic major and grade have an impact on different dimensions of reading motivation. Accordingly, strategies are proposed to promote classics reading among the college students: Firstly, we should focus on the promotion of reading among younger readers and cultivating their reading habits; secondly, we can stimulate reading motivation through extrinsic driving forces; and thirdly, it’s important to utilize social media to develop socialized
reading.

At present, with the Internet becoming the main channel of information dissemination, public libraries are constantly exploring new models for reading promotion. As a rising star in the new media era, short videos have occupied the market with a prairie fire, and have profoundly affected people’s ideas and behavior. As one of the most popular short video applications in China, TikTok is a platform worthy of utilization for reading promotion. This paper uses the official TikTok account of the Zhejiang Library—“Big Name is Coming”— as an example to discuss the new model for reading promotion by means of short videos.

The concept Zhong Tai (a.k.a. Middle Platform), derived from the era of big data, has attracted the attention of more and more enterprises and institutions. The application of middle platform will play a transformative role in the digital humanities infrastructure. Various middle platforms have emerged, such as data middle platform, business middle platform, algorithm middle platform and technology middle platform. As an important type of institutional digital assets, images have been locked for a long time, and the utilization of these resources is extremely low. The proposal of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) has opened the door to image resource sharing and reuse. Based on IIIF framework and semantic technologies such as linked data, ontology and graph database, this paper puts forward the system framework and implementation plan of image middle platform in digital humanities. Image resources from different sources are gathered in the middle platform in real time, and image interaction and intelligent connection can be realized through image resources reorganization, content, and semantic annotation. The proposal of image middle platform aims to break the information island of image resources and can be used as the infrastructure of digital humanities to provide solution for the in-depth application and research of image resources.

Based on ranking made by Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) Library, the paper makes an analysis and study of SCI journals published in 2014-2018 and their ranking. By analyzing the causes of the change in ranking, the paper aims to explore the influence of such change on the quality of journals and the evaluation of scientific research achievements. The analysis shows that new journals, the change of journal discipline category, the change of impact factor, and the adjustment of journal ranking rules are the main reasons for the change of journal ranking. The journal ranking reflects the quality of journals and affects the evaluation of scientific research performance of scholars and institutions. Hence it is necessary to set up a relatively complete quality evaluation system of journals in combination with various evaluation criteria.

Xiang Tu Zhi Li Mu is an immenselysuccessful local chronicle compiled by Huang Shao-ji, a representative of the Ruian School of the Qing Dynasty. Its appearance provided a direct basis for the compilation of local records of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China and marked the institutionalization of local teaching materials. At the same time, the book also embodies Huang Shao-ji’s view of local chronicles, literature and education, and has a profound influence on the writing of the local chronicles, bibliography and local textbooks. From the perspective of the the Republic of China’s academic history, examining the influence of Xiang Tu Zhi Li Mu is conducive to further highlighting its academic value and influence and speculating on the acceptance of the book in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

Si Ku Quan Shu Zong Mu has been an important reference book for researchers since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, showing access to the traditional Chinese learning. Therefore, scholars started to revise and discuss the book in the Reign of Emperor Jiaqing. After the Republic of China Period, the study on Si Ku and Si Ku Quan Shu Zong Mu became an autonomous discipline, and the complement and continuation of the book were one of its branchwith the most outstanding achievements. On one hand, combing the research achievements of the period brings a better understanding and inheritance of traditional bibliography, on the other hand, it can also absorb Western social science research methods to surpass the predecessors in the width and breadth of research with outstanding investigations. A review of the main achievements of the supplementary and continuation of the book during this period also inspires un for exploring the contemporary value of the bibliography.

The fourteen volumes of the Qiantang Ji held by the Seikado Bunko Library in Japan are the sole Song Dynasty block-printed edition of Qiantang Ji, by Wei Xiang, a scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is the original edition of the prevalent edition. There are many lost poems, essays and Wei Xiang’s self-annotation, absent from the current edition, showcasing historical value for studying the political ecology of the Northern Song Dynasty and the activities of literati communication. For a long time, the popular edition of the Collection of Qiantang in academic circles is the Collection of Wulin Wangzhe engraved during the reign of Guangxu (and Quan Song Shi and Quan Song Wen compiled based on this book). The Guangxu editions are very different from the original Song block-printed version, and had omitted several poems and self-annotations of the author. By examining the edition held in Seikado Bunko, we can shed new light on itsliterature and historical value.