This paper discusses how the development of omnimedia and big data are triggering a new reading revolution, ushering in a new era of reading (It tries defining “mega-reading” as “a new era of reading”). It clearly points out the necessity for traditional library to transit into smart hybrid library accordingly.

There has been a global “Library Rejuvenation” since the 1990s, and a number of new libraries are emerging or being rebuilt, many of which are iconic buildings. At the same time, library has gone through a period of transition from book-oriented to people-oriented. The past 20 years of “Library Rejuvenation” has witnessed how the library architecture is becoming increasingly rational and returning to its origin. “People-oriented” is now the guiding ideology behind the library architecture. Shanghai Library East, which stands out in the era of “Library Rejuvenation”, is truly a piece of world-class work in both appearance and function. This paper examines Shanghai Library East in the context of global library construction over the past two decades, focusing on three themes, namely, return, transformation and cooperation. It elaborates how the library design has evolved from emphasis on aesthetic look to emphasis on function, from book-oriented to people-oriented, and from an architect’s work to a collaborative work between architect and users. By making such an in-depth comparison and analysis of the architectural features of Shanghai Library East, the paper demonstrates its influence on the field of library design.

The omnimedia has spawned more interconnected, more convenient and more diverse reading needs, which has put forward urgent requirements for transforming the service concept and reading promotion mode of public libraries. This paper takes the practice of the visual identity system upgrade of Shanghai Library as an example, and discusses the feasibility of conveying the transformational strategy of the library to the public by shaping a brand-new institutional image. Practice shows that the upgrading of visual identity system is an effective way for public libraries to integrate into the omnimedia era, and also a feasible way to build a new transformational institutional image based on own characteristics and development concepts.

China provides a more standardized legal basis for libraries to play their social roles. This report systematically summaries the laws, department rules, local regulations and government rules, system of Party regulations, and regulatory documents of the State Council related to the library since the promulgation of the Public Cultural Service Guarantee Law of the People’s Republic of China, and presents the new requirements, new guidance and new focus of China’s laws, regulations and policies on library work. It should be noted that the special laws and regulations of library and department regulations are not the focus of this report. The research results show that in recent years, libraries have received increasing attention from all relevant departments and all fields of the society. The main contents of relevant laws and regulations system of libraries in China includes striving to promote the integrated development of libraries and related undertakings or institutions, improving the safety management ability of the library, and strengthening the construction of inclusive society through libraries.

It is conducive to libraries and other information service institutions to improve information service modes and efficiency. Hence this paper explores the role evolution of users in scholarly communication under the background of open access. By using the relevant theories of scholarly communication and of field, this paper analyzes the key factors which cause the evolution of users’ roles, and analyzes the main characteristics of their roles’ evolution. It holds that under the background of open access, the research habitus of users and the relationship between users in the scholarly communication have evolved, and the distribution structure of capital and power in the scholarly communication has been shaken. It forms a user-centered dynamic interaction field. Libraries, information centers and other information service institutions need to closely track and pay attention to the users’ role evolution, and improve information service modes pertinently, so as to achieve a win-win situation with users.

Artificial intelligence involves various fields of human society, and interdisciplinarity is its basic characteristic. Studying the interdisciplinary structure of artificial intelligence and the relationship between subdisciplines is important for the government to formulate the development strategy of artificial intelligence. In this paper, we used the data of AI-related literature resulting from Web of Science between 2017 and 2020, and by way of bibliometrics and social network analysis, analyzed data from multiple perspectives, such as disciplinary networks, disciplinary clusters, disciplinary individuals and disciplinary keywords, to reveal the interdisciplinary characteristics of AI. The study found that: 1) AI-related literature contains 237 disciplines, accounting for 94% of the core collection of Web of Science, reflecting the strong interdisciplinary character of AI. 2) The disciplines of AI are naturally clustered into 15 main disciplinary clusters, and 5 major disciplinary clusters are in a mature, core position in the disciplinary ecology. 3) The five major disciplines of computing and materials have the largest number of AI research results and the greatest influence on AI in other disciplines. Life science such as medicine and pharmacy AI literature has the largest number of citations, and features high-quality AI research or applications. 4) The relationship between AI sub-disciplines based on disciplinary core terms shows that two-thirds of the dichotomous disciplines are relatively close, but overall, there exists a huge difference, with the phenomenon of “those who are close are extremely close and those who are distant are extremely distant”.

In recent years, scientific research integrity has attracted widespread attention. To promote the professionalization and normalization of research integrity management, we must first manage research data, strengthen the management of original records of scientific research work, standardize the management and audit of research data, and ensure the quality of research data. With the guidance of scientific data management “FAIR” and multi-center governance theory, the paper explores the collaborative symbiosis relationship among university research data stakeholders centered on scholars, colleges, disciplines, and schools, uses the responsibility matrix (RASCI method) to sort out the tasks, roles, division of labor, responsibilities, and so forth, then proposes a multi-center-driven university research data governance framework. The framework includes the stages for data production, architecture design, and the implementation of data governance. It covers the life cycle of research data and the life cycle of data governance. It is intended to provide a theoretical model for university research data governance.

Regional integration is the only way to achieve high-quality development. This paper puts forward four characteristics of regional integration of public libraries, including the integrated layout of service system construction, the integrated promotion of document resources development, the integrated realization of basic service functions, and the integrated supply of reading promotion activities. Based on the main practices and relevant results of the implementation of the great improvement of public library services in Zhejiang Province, this paper summarizes some enlightenment of regional integration to promote the high-quality development of public libraries, which provides reference for the implementation of integrated development of libraries in other regions.

The special literature is an important content of library literature resource development. However, due to resource, manpower, technology and capital constraints, it is not easy for a single library to carry out special literature development. Starting from the construction of a union catalog of special literature, the paper proposes a low-cost, high-efficiency and reproductible model for building special literature, which obtains clues of special resources by searching international large-scale comprehensive and thematic union catalogs, uses the cooperative method to realize resource sharing, and builds a union catalog of special literature integrating inquiry and acquisition. The article takes the practice of sorting local collection of Hangzhou during the Republic of China period as an example, combines resource collection requirements with the function of union catalogs, selects appropriate union catalogs at home and abroad to carry out literature collection and collation, and obtains global distribution clues and a large number of digitized original texts of Hangzhou local collection during the Republic of China period. On this basis, it discusses how to use these resources and technologies to carry out international cooperation to build a union catalog of special literature to promote the development of special
literature.

Right into the early 20th century, library industries were just unfolding in both China and Japan, and they could not cover broad areas, especially the rural areas far away from the cities. Enlightened by the US experience, Sano Tomosaburo in Japan devoted himself into the circulating library during his tenure at the Akita country library. From 1903 to 1915, Sano's circulating librarianship flourished in Yamaguti country with his tenure transfer. Under his influence, some private organization began to follow suit. The circulating service of the Japanese rural library presents the outstanding characteristics, including the purpose of the library industry development, the standardized management, the establishment of a library respecting the readers’ needs, and the circulating plan with efficiency priority. At the same time around the 20th century, in China, the Capital Education Administration Bureau Circulating Library appeared and served around the capital suburbs, the Circulating Library of Boone Library appeared and served around Wuhan. In the 1920s and 1930s, the rural libraries circulating service made great progress. Based on the study of historical materials, this paper compares the different development characteristics between China and Japan, both learning from the American service, and discusses the basic attributes of the diversity and flexibility of the rural libraries circulating service.

With the increasing scale and fund proportion of electronic resources in library, electronic resources performance analysis has become an important aspect of collection analysis and input-output analysis of libraries. In this paper, the electronic resource performance evaluation system is taken as the research object, while the ERS system and Polyinfo system are analysed in the following areas, namely, the statistical data analysis source, system architecture and workflow, the main function of the system as well as the evaluation of the testing results. Combined with the testing process of Shandong University Library, this paper puts forward that the system testing needs to be promoted comprehensively and collaboratively from the aspects of ideological understanding, joint participation of departmental organizations and key disciplines. It aims to provide reference for the deploying of electronic resources performance evaluation system and to explore a scientific and efficient evaluation for domestic university libraries.

The article takes Pudong Library’s Home Reading Kit for Children Aged 0-3 Years Old program as an example to explore the characteristics and essence of the mode shifting from children-oriented to family-oriented. It explores the localization of such a service mode by means of literature research and case studies. Pudong Library’s Home Reading Kit for Children Aged 0–3 Years Old program well embodies the new service’s essence and highlights its own characteristics such as diversified social cooperation network, instrumental reading resource package, growth mindset family guidance course, three dimensional reading promotion activities and community communication platform. It provides reference for the promotion of “family-oriented” service mode in China.
Keywords Family-oriented, Public library service for young children, Service

Introducing evidence-based medicine into medical information retrieval course, the paper explored the effective integration of them from concept to practice, in order to provide reference for cultivating and improving students’ information literacy and evidence-based ability. This paper used the method of empirical research and took the graduate students of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese
Medicine as the research object. Based on the analysis of the connotation and relationship of evidencebased medicine—metaliteracy—medical information retrieval, it defined the teaching concept, and developed teaching design and teaching practices. The multi-dimensional integration pattern constructed in this research promoted the effective integration of independent learning and inquiry learning. It not only effectively enhanced students’ evidence-based awareness, but also improved their information literacy and evidence-based ability, achieving good teaching effect in the end.

In order to explore the citation characteristics of data papers, this study took 1 473 data papers in the journal Scientific Data as an example, grabbed the full text data of data papers, and extracted relevant information about citation behavior for analysis from the perspective of citation location. After research and comparison with general academic papers, it found that the citation position of data papers is “top-heavy”, and the citation age and citation intensity of different citation positions are significantly different.

With the integration of the aging society and the digital society, researches on the digital life of senior citizens have attracted attention from many countries and fields. This article used open-ended interviews and grounded theory to collect and analyze data and took smart phones as an example to conduct research on the digital life of senior citizens. The authors selected 7 representative locations in a provincial capital city in central China to conduct interviews and analyzed the senior citizens’ behaviors in using smartphones and the factors affecting them, with the help of the grounded theory three-level coding analysis method. While revealing the status of senior citizens’ use of smartphones, the authors identified the influencing factors such as personal capital, interpersonal network, social environment, and equipment performance. At the same time, these factors influenced each other. Based on the above conclusions and in view of the national strategy of active aging, it proposed a solution to improve the digital life of senior citizens.

The page number is one of the most inconspicuous but indispensable elements in modern books, but this element did not appear with books. The earliest symbol with partial function of page numbering in Chinese books probably was the Jian Hao（简号）in the era of the booklet, but the symbol was very different from the page number, and was not widely used. In the first few hundred years after the paper age, scrolls, the main form of Chinese books, did not use any page numbers. The most used page number was in the form of Fanjiazhuang (Buddhist-classic binding), but also not widely used. The reappearance of the foliation on Chinese books may have been derived from block printing, and its function is to ensure that the paper is in order. As the symbol became popular, page numbers had a deep impact on the reading and utilization of books. However, Chinese books independently generated pagination system has certain defects compared with the Western pagination system. In modern times, with the introduction of Western civilization, the page numbering system on Chinese books was gradually replaced.

Family Letters from Qian Yan Tang, was published by Xuehai Monthly in 1944, contained a set of twelve letters collected by Qu Zhongrong, which has quite a lot of mutual evidence with Chen Yuan’s “An Explanation of the Fifteen Handwritten Letters of Qian Zhuting”. The chronological interpretation of the journals in the Xuehai Monthly reveals that these twelve letters were all written in Qian Daxin's old age when he was lecturing at the Ziyang Academy in Suzhou, and the events written in the journals are useful in clarifying the historical facts of Qian Daxin’s later years with Wang Chang, Ji Yun and others. The letters are written in a simple style and provide a glimpse into Qian’s daily life.