In the context of the construction of “Double First Class University” and “New Liberal Arts”, all levels of professional education in the discipline of library and information archives management are undergoing rapid change and uncertainty in Chinese mainland. In recent years, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council has made dynamic adjustments of educational institutions with undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs six times, involving as many as 90 on LIS programs. Due to the non-rigorous research dimension and structure, there is always a lack of empirical research on professional education based on complete LIS first-level disciplines, especially the lack of attention to the trend of disciplinary adjustment. In view of this situation, this research collects vital information from multiple channels, takes the institutions with LIS programs in Chinese mainland as the research object, and analyzes the establishment and enrollment status of such institutions. The main research findings are summarized below. Firstly, the scale of LIS disciplines has reached a historical high, with a total of 107 disciplines at various levels, including 41 undergraduates, 93 masters (57 academic masters and 75 professional masters), 17 doctors, 14 post-doctoral and 4 junior colleges; Secondly, the regional distribution of disciplines is more balanced, and currently 29 provinces have set up relevant levels of LIS disciplines. Higher-level educational resources such as doctoral educational institutions are highly concentrated, mainly in Beijing, Jiangsu Province, and Hubei Province. Thirdly, from the perspective of diachronic analysis, the undergraduate level tends to decline steadily and develop more towards higher level; the master level represented by professional master’s degree develops rapidly; the departmental background of LIS discipline setting is more diversified, and the traditional academic master’s degree has a certain tendency to shrink; the doctoral level shows a steady growth and the cultivation quality improves year by year. Facing the possible mismatch between supply and demand in the LIS labor market brought by the continuous expansion, we propose a collaborative governance model of multiple entities under the guidance of combining supply and demand, and introduce LIS professional associations as pivotal entities, so as to achieve a dynamic balance between the supply scale, structure, quality and market demand.

The improvement of public library service efficiency is directly related to the construction of modern public cultural service system. The paper takes space as the starting point, uses the super-efficiency SBM model to measure the service efficiency of public libraries in 31 provinces (municipalities) in China from the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” to the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, adopts geographic detectors to quantitatively analyze the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics of library service efficiency, and explores the influencing factors and influencing mechanisms in depth. Research shows: (1) The overall level of service efficiency of public libraries in China since the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period is mediocre, and the service efficiency of 31 provinces can be roughly divided into 5 levels; (2) There is obvious spatial heterogeneity in the service efficiency of public libraries, which is affected by factors such as economic development level, education level of residents, fiscal decentralization, urbanization level, facility network, library activity, and team building. The factors affecting service efficiency during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period mainly include the level of economic development, fiscal decentralization, and library activity, whereas the influencing factors during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period include a new facility network based on the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period. During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the education level, urbanization level and team building of residents were newly added; (3) The spatial differentiation of public library service efficiency in China is determined by policy. It is the result of the continuous circulation of the six-element influencing mechanism of financial security, talent introduction and structural adjustment, social security and social equity, structural transformation and function expansion, cultural equipment management and network operation, as well as activity management and activity innovation.

This study investigates the conditions of rural public digital culture services, understands usage intentions, and analyzes the influencing factors of user churn. Field surveys were conducted in rural service stations of National Public Cultural Demonstration Zone. Based on the S-O-R (stimulus-organism- response) theory, grounded theory was used as an analysis method, and a combination of field visits and semi-structured interviews was used to collect corpus. By Nvivo11, the authors combed and analyzed the corpus and identified the influencing factors of user churn and its mechanism. The study discovered the relationship between stimulus, organism, and response elements in rural public digital cultural services, constructed a user churn model, and proposed suggestions targeting at the impact of substitutes, information literacy, information, and service system environment on user churn, in the hope of avoiding user churn and improving the efficiency of rural public digital cultural services.

“Book therapy” (or “reading therapy” and “bibliography”), which originated in the West in the 19th century, has been recognized and accepted by people to a certain extent after introduced to the Chinese mainland at the end of the 20th century. The article mainly recommends and reviews ten representative works with Chinese localization theory and practical connotation, such as Reading Therapy and Reading Therapy of the Children. It considers them to be professional textbook which should be studied and familiarized with by reader service staff in public libraries, academic libraries, and hospitals (nursing homes) libraries (reading rooms). It also calls on relevant libraries to actively introduce and vigorously promote “reading therapy” services, and creatively set up space such as “heart-warming rooms”, “worry-relieving stations”, “psychological stations”, “happy book bars” and “spring study rooms, and to train librarians with knowledge of psychology, reading culture and other related disciplines as soon as possible, in order to deepen and expand the library reader service, further promote the national reading, and creatively implement the “Cultural Benefits Project”.

From the perspective of reading therapy, this paper focuses on the novels and essays of Bi Shumin, a well-known contemporary female writer who also holds a physician license and atherapist license. It explores the therapeutic value of her works beyond the literary value. It is believed that the plain language, warm feelings and enterprising thinking in her works, together with her years’ experience of practicing medicine and psychological consultation, generates the healing power over and comfort to the readers. She lives up to her name as “literary psychological healer” and “white angel in literary world”. It is suggested that her works should be included in the list of reading therapy and recommended by public library and school library.

By integrating the theory of general education, this paper makes a comparative study of the Civilized Campus: Campus Reading Promotion and the Branch Reading: Reading Promote Talent and introduces the theoretical and practical value of these two books in terms of reading promotion on campus. On this basis, four feasible paths for college libraries to improve general education are putting forward: compiling campus-wide classics reading bibliographies and scientifically allocating the proportions of humanities, social sciences and science and technology bibliographies; creating regionally-featured reading promotion activities and focusing on the promotion of humanities and other digital reading resources; using library reading promotion platforms or applications to stimulate college students’ enthusiasm for reading; re-designing the library space that should be conducive to the development of reading promotion.

Exploring the utilization and research of red literature in libraries will effectively support and promote the research in the history of the Communist Party of China, modern Chinese history and regional history, which is of great significance for inheriting the red gene, carrying forward the revolutionary spirit and educating people. Taking Renmin University Library of China’s efforts of sorting out red literature catalogue, building red literature platform, digitizing the red literature and planning red exhibition as examples, this paper discusses the way of mining and researching of red literature, and explores the law of red literature research through interlibrary cooperation, cooperation with experts from different departments, and project research.

O2O service is a new service mode. Some university libraries introduce O2O service according to their own actual situation, and have achieved certain results through practical exploration. Among them, Xidian University library is one of the earliest university libraries to realize O2O service. Based on the three-year user data of O2O service platform of Xidian University, this paper makes statistical analysis and comparison on the use data of each functional module, and puts forwards suggestions and solutions according to the actual situation of universities, so as to provide reference for the innovation and development of other university libraries.

The basic elements of university library have changed greatly. The Art Library of Harbin Normal University studies the library space planning strategy based on user needs in order to provide support and feasible solutions for the library’s space service innovation. The paper analyzes and proposes the key elements, characteristics and spatial service framework of the new spatial layout. Through the analysis of the orientation, function and characteristics of library space service, it extracts the schemes and strategies that should be adopted in space service. Space service has become an important service mode of library development in future. According to the service object, the principle of space management should be finalized while the new service scheme should fit the space. Also, an effective evaluation system should be established as part of efforts to reconstruct the space service framework based on user needs.

The establishment of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has finally brought literature and travel together, which also marks a new era of integrated development of culture and tourism. Local literature is not only the first-hand material to record local history and culture, but also an important resource to study local politics, economy, human geography, customs and social development. Grass-root public libraries systematically sort out local literature resources and deeply study and excavate the connotation of local culture, which is not only conducive to promoting the development of local culture and tourism integration, but also brings new historical opportunities for their own development.

Automatic information extraction from genealogical text is the key to exploiting genealogy resources efficiently. Recently, deep learning has achieved remarkable success in information extraction from genealogy text, but has been limited by a lack of labeled data in this field. This paper aims at developing a bootstrapping-based method targeting at small-scale labeled genealogy text, which extracts information from biographies of family members. To be specific, the method starts with a small-scale labeled data and uses the BiLSTM-CRF model to predict label sequence, with those samples with the highest confidence scores chosen and added to the labeled data. In this way, the labeled data is incrementally expanded and the trained model can predict label sequence for given genealogy text, which is further used to derive entities and relationships. According to the experiment on real dataset, the proposed method can extract the information from digital genealogy text based on a small scale of labeled data, which makes deep learning methods more effective and practical for information extraction from genealogy records. The proposed method with a size of 250 achieves similar performance to that of the BiLSTM-CRF model with 1800 labeled data.

The paper introduces the influence of the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in the United States on the practice of information literacy instruction by researching English literature about the Framework after 2014. The research finds that the Framework has influenced the concept of information literacy instruction abroad, reformed teaching content and methods, and deepened the instructional evaluation. In terms of teaching content, the Framework transformed information literacy instruction from skill-based to threshold-based, promoted the redesign of different types of information literacy courses, and expanded the scope of teaching content from higher education to everyday life. In terms of teaching methods, the Framework adopted the teaching strategies of visualized education stories and short essays, put into practice service learning, and carried out the self-reflective and inquiry-based information literacy instruction. Influenced by the Framework, instructional evaluation shifted from quantitative to qualitative or their organic combination, and from summative to formative or organic combination of both.

This study aims to explore the user’s information search process and search behavior in the context of research-oriented tasks, so as to better provide effective decision support for related information and scientific services targeting at academic users. Based on Kuhlthau’s information search process model and research task situation, this paper explores the information search behavior at three stages—pre focus, focus formation and post focus—from a macro perspective. First, through the combination of key event method and Micro-Moment Time-Line interview method, the data collection of 21 interviewees is completed; then, the results are analyzed by content analysis method and induction method, and the performance of academic users in different information search stages is explored from three dimensions of information demand, information search strategy and emotional state. The results show that the information search behavior of academic users in the context of research task is a complex process. At three different stages of information search process, user characteristics, such as subject background, prior knowledge, perceived task complexity, academic level, are a moderating variable, and have a significant impact on the search process, thoughts, actions and emotion.

We have has entered the post- COVID-19 epidemic era. Taking the Internet users as the research object, this paper explored the health information needs of the public in the post-epidemic era, in order to provide the basis for the information release and policy making of relevant departments. Taking the social Q&A platform “Zhihu” as an example, a coding system of user health information needs was constructed by combining LDA topic model with manual annotation. The characteristics and evolution rules of user health information needs were revealed from the dimension of time and topic through cycle division, content analysis and needs intensity analysis. In the post-epidemic period, Internet users’ health information needs are mainly concentrated in three aspects, namely, COVID-19 related knowledge, epidemic prevention and control, and social impact. The core need of users is “epidemic prevention and control”, while the unique need is “COVID-19 vaccine”. The research shows that the health information needs of users are still highly sensitive to the epidemic in the post-epidemic era, and also reflect the epidemic prevention and control status.

Physical means and water treatment are often applied to paper cleaning and remounting during the process of restoration. However, when it comes to seriously damaged paper in ink or pigment, careless treatment can easily do harm to paper documents. Enzymes can catalyze the hydrolysis of adhesives, therefore, fragile documents would be separated easily with less physical damage. In this article, the related researches at home and abroad on the application of three common types of enzymes, namely, alpha-amylase, protease and lipase, in the process of cleaning and remounting are introduced, whereas influencing factors, application effects as well as safety of enzymes are analyzed in order to provide some guidance in actual restoration work.

The Poems of Pre-Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, edited by Lu Qinli, is a masterpiece of poetry before the Tang Dynasty. Due to the limitations of working conditions, heavy volume, and compiled by one person, there are some inevitable omissions. In the past forty years, the academic research on this book has produced considerable results, especially in adding missing works, examining works, correcting authors’ biography, discussing compiling styles, and revealing collation errors. But there are still many mistakes in the text that have yet to be cleaned up, such as repeated compilations, wrong sources of literature, wrongly accepted works, Tang poems mistakenly included, and errors and omissions in texts. Since this book is at the core of the pre-Tang literature, it is slightly explained to provide some references for further revision.

There are many hints in Shi Shuo Xin Yu (also known as A New Account of the Tales of the World) about the time of Wang Xizhi’s birth, engagement, and death. Regarding Wang Xizhi’s birth time, it is stated in The Twenty-seventh Chapter of False Intent: when Wang Dun rebelled for the first time, Wang Xizhi was less than ten years old. It can be seen that Wang Xizhi was born no earlier than 313 AD. Concerning Wang Xizhi’s engagement time, The Sixth Chapter of Yaliang states: when Xi Jian was in Jingkou, one of his former students wrote to Wang Dao (Wang Xizhi’s uncle) to ask Wang Xizhi to be Xi Jian’s son-in-law. Xi Jian began to guard Jingkou in 328 AD. It can be inferred that Wang Xizhi’s engagement date should not be earlier than that year. As for Wang Xizhi’s death time, The Eighth Chapter of Appreciation says: Yu Qian (pet name Ni) wrote the inscription for Wang Xizhi. Yu Qian was killed by Huan Wen in November 371 AD. The Twenty-fifth Chapter of Pai Tiao writes: when Emperor Jian Wen was walking on the temple, Wang Xizhi and Sun Chuo followed him. Emperor Jian Wen took the throne in November 371 AD. Hence, it can be extrapolated that when Emperor Jianwen took the throne, Wang Xizhi was still alive. It follows that the time of Wang Xizhi’s death should be 371 A.D. Therefore, Shi Shuo Xin Yu shows that Wang Xizhi’s true birth and death time was between 313 AD and 371 AD.

The Biography of Blessed Friar Odoric translated by Guo Dongchen was collected in the Library of Hubei Province. It was published at the College of Chongzheng in the fifteenth year of Guangxu(1889). It was the earliest Chinese translation of Italian Franciscan Friar Odoric’s travelogues to the East. This book in the Library of Hubei Province was damaged and lost one page. In the prefaces of Hu Hong and Guo Dongchen the translation’s process was explained in detail. The book contained the Friar Odoric’s travel, many events of Friar Odoric and Guo Dongchen’s notes. This book was quoted by scholars who studied the spread of Catholicism in China and the history of communication between China and the West. It is of great value to the studies of the spread of Catholicism in China and the history of communication between China and the West.