In recent years, the research of knowledge discipline based on library and information science has gone through three stages: embryonic stage, development stage and transformation stage. In these three stages, knowledge theory experienced initial creation, prosperity and localization, while knowledge technology experienced rising to break through. The rudimentary stage of knowledge discipline draws lessons from the advanced western theory to promote the theory of library and information science to break through the science of experience. The development stage of knowledge discipline develops from western experience reference to the refining and application of Chinese experience, and the transformation stage of knowledge discipline generates Chinese approach. These three stages form four research directions, which are knowledge theory, knowledge management, knowledge service and knowledge technology. The contribution of knowledge discipline to library and information science is expected to achieve positive innovation in the future, export Chinese theory, and promote Chinese knowledge school to the world.

The participation of “new rural talents” in the development of rural culture connects the logic of national administration with the logic of rural autonomy and has comparative advantages. This paper makes a case study of the rural reading promotion project of “Walking Book Box”, and finds that the government, through cultivating “Project-based rural sages”, is participating in rural culture construction, promoting the information communication between the government and the villagers, improving service efficiency and promoting service innovation. Different from the traditional rural sages and the endogenous new rural sages, the operation of “Project-based rural sages” is a governance strategy led by the government to complete the task of project governance. “Project-based rural sages”is basically a kind of mobilization participation. Local governments should take the initiative to cultivate new townsfolk to enhance their publicity, governance ability and governance willingness.

In view of the interdisciplinary nature of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), this paper discusses the construction scheme of its classification organization. The thesis introduces the theory and methodology of domain analysis and proposes three steps to realize the construction of the classification organization of ICH information resources, based on the exploration of the construction strategies that fit the characteristics of ICH information resources, and then improvement of the construction process. The study concludes that a systematic taxonomy incorporating grouping techniques is suitable for presenting the organizational structure of ICH information resources, and that a combination of bottom-up and top-down logic should be adopted to realize the design of the taxonomic organization by taking information resources as the basic material and reviewing them together with experts in the field, and then repeatedly validating the design of the taxonomic organization. The thesis illustrates the theory and method of constructing a step-by-step classification organization scheme, which provides a scientific basis for the subsequent organization and content revelation of ICH information resources. It will also provide reference for the construction of classification organization in related disciplines within the industry.

Safety and security situational awareness system is the key support for effective monitoring, prevention and resolution of safety and security risks, and its operation is inseparable from the support of safety and security intelligence system. Therefore, the research on safety and security situational awareness system based on safety and security intelligence is of great significance. Firstly, this paper makes a comparative analysis between safety and security situational awareness system and safety and security intelligence system. Secondly, this paper clarifies the connotation of safety and security situational awareness system based on safety and security intelligence. Moreover, this paper proposes and analyzes a framework for safety and security situational awareness system based on safety and security intelligence. Finally, it takes the prevention and control of epidemic as an example to analyze the application of safety and security situational awareness system based on epidemic intelligence. The research shows that the safety and security situational awareness system based on safety and security intelligence is an organic integration between safety and security situational awareness system and safety and security intelligence system; its framework is composed of one organization, one safety and security intelligence source, three institutions, two workflows and three networks.

This paper reviews the history of American library consortia, and analyzes the crisis they are facing in the new era, such as continuous huge profits of the traditional publishing industry, open access movement, and changes in user demand. The reform path in promoting open science, coordinated sharing and long-term preservation of resources across consortia, new generation library service platforms, alliance-led business model innovation, and shared local digital archives and special collections are elaborated. On this basis, it points out the reference and inspiration to the development of library consortia in China from five aspects: demand-driven, strengthening cooperation, actively integrating into the open science movement, co-building and sharing service facilities, as well as changing roles.

Considering the unique demands posed by music materials and the complexity of cataloguing such documents in a rapidly changing discovery environment, the Music Library Association released in 2012 the first version of Music Discovery Requirements (MDR1), a document specially compiled for music librarians, developers who create and design music discovery interfaces, and related professionals. The revised version, MDR2 was published in 2017. This paper aims to introduce the current situation and experience of music cataloging practice in the United States through an interpretation and analysis of the main content and revisions of MDR, with a view to shedding some light on music resource description in today’s discovery environment.

Open access (OA) resources have become an indispensable part of library resource development. The selecting and collecting of OA periodicals in line with the collection scope of library and cataloging in the library automation system will make them organically integrated with the subscribed resources, efficiently enlarge the scale and scope of library resource collection, and provide readers with richer, more complete and continuous retrieval and acquisition services.

To understanding the behavioral preferences and attitudes of users of academic social networking sites, and to provide an important reference for online scientific communication research and practice, we obtained information on platform usage and attitudes of users of mainstream academic social networking sites through questionnaires, and then conducted statistics and tests on the survey results to analyze the differences in usage behaviors of users with different academic identities and disciplines. This study found that scientific communication behavior of users was significantly related to academic identity, but the disciplinary difference was not obvious. Among them, the faculty group valued online scientific communication more than students, but students were more likely to find publications of interest. Lecturers/assistant lecturers were more willing to seek scientific collaboration and had the highest level of agreement with the platform’s role in facilitating scholarly communication, while professors/associate professors were socially underrepresented. In addition, the platform had a limited role in identifying job opportunities and project funding.

Taking the “Picture Book Meets Improvisational Drama” activity as an example, it analyzes the design concept, implementation process, effects and characteristics of conducting improvisational drama in public libraries, reflects on the existing shortcomings and considers the direction of further development in future in the hope of enlightening the reading promotion activities of public libraries.

Automatic word segmentation is the foundation and key step of digital humanities research related to intangible cultural heritage, and it is the prerequisite to in-depth exploration of intangible cultural heritage internal information. We constructed automatic word segmentation models for the application text of national intangible cultural heritage projects. We compared the segmentation performance of CRF, Bi-LSTM-CRF, BERT, RoBERTa and ALBERT on intangible cultural heritage texts. And, the results of Han LP, Jieba, and NLPIR, general CWS tools were compared. In all 14 models, the RoBERTa model had the best effect, with an F-score of 97.28%, and ALBERT had the fastest training speed under the same conditions of PTMs. The word segmentation model was used to construct the intangible cultural heritage text domain vocabulary and segmentation corpus, whereas the intangible cultural heritage text vocabulary distribution was analyzed and mined. We developed the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Text Automatic Segmentation System (CITS), which provided a tool for the automatic segmentation of intangible cultural heritage texts and the multi-dimensional visual analysis of the segmentation results.

The Yushan Yaji is a classic fusion of ancient Chinese literati communication, and is held at Wuzhong which was the most important literary center in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. Taking the Yushan Yaji as an example, this work uses social network analysis (Ucinet) and visualization methods (Gephi, QGIS) to study the social networks of the literati in Wuzhong area from a digital humanities perspective. This manuscript attempts to present the full picture and characteristics of literati interactions, and thus reveals the evolution of literary trends during the Yuan-Ming transition. The research demonstrates characteristics of a “center-margin” structure among the social network of the literati and their community, and that the poetry gatherings objectively promoted the spread of Tieya’s poetic style in the literary field in the late Yuan Dynasty. The Yushan model had a profound impact on the life philosophy of later generations of literati.

Information search competency is the core element of information literacy competency, and it is also the core index to evaluate the learning outcome of information literacy education from practical paradigm. In the context of the ACRL Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education, and focusing on “exploratory academic information search”, we carried out embedded information literacy education. The task-based information search ability test was used to simulate learners’ academic information search scenarios, and learners were assessed by their performance in completing tasks. By comparing the test results of the pre-test and post-test between the experimental group and the control group, the teaching effectiveness of the embedded information literacy education program was tested. The pre-test results showed that most of the students’ academic information search competency needs to be improved—60.39% of the students can only complete simple academic information search tasks. The post-test results proved, from practical aspect, that this information literacy education project had improved learners’ information search competency. The average post-test score of the experimental group participating in this project was 11.79 higher than that of the control group, and the practical search competency was improved by an average of 1 grade. This study evaluated the teaching effect of information literacy from the practical perspective of users’ information searching competency. It provides reference for exploring and improving the teaching effect under the practice paradigm.

This paper makes a comparative analysis of the service-learning practices between Chinese and American academic libraries. It finds that there are three types of service-learning cases in American academic libraries: direct participation in teaching and research, indirect participation in teaching and research, and cooperative participation through projects in teaching and research. Their characteristics are as follows: cases of direct participation in teaching and research occupy a dominant position, while those of indirect participation and cooperative participation through projects are in a subordinate position; the embedded information literacy instruction is mainly adopted, and the teaching content focuses on the real-world information; some cases use the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education for reference. In contrast, the service-learning practice in Chinese academic libraries is in its infancy, among which the representative one is the leading case of Sichuan University Library. By referring to the service-learning cases in American academic libraries and combining with China’s national conditions, this paper puts forward two implications: (1) in colleges and universities that have launched service-learning courses in China, their libraries can try to directly participate in those courses in the form of embedded information literacy instruction, or indirectly participate in them by establishing subject guides; (2) in colleges and universities that do not offer service-learning courses in China, their libraries can try to carry out the leading service-learning cases by combining labor education and relying on their own voluntary service.

The ancients attached great importance to the protection of paper documents, and took many measures to enhance its durability, so as to preserve it for a long time. Many of these measures depended on time and crucial moments. This paper discusses the protection tips related to time from the aspects of the selection of raw materials for paper making, the preservation process of paper documents, and the mounting process of paper documents. It summarizes the protection skills related to the crucial moments from impregnation, cooking, sizing, making the syrup and so on, in order to provide reference for today’s protection work of paper documents.

Pest prevention is a challenge and priority in the preservation of paper documents and archives. The anti-pest paper dipped in pyrethroids can be used by methods of contact toxicity and repellency against common pests. This article improves the formulation of pyrethroids on the basis of relevant application research, further enhancing pest-proofing while ensuring the safety to human beings. Based on nearly three years of practice in the use of anti-pest paper in the general stack of ancient books in Shanghai Library, this article initially verifies the feasibility and effectiveness of the anti-pest paper for pest control of ancient books, and provides a solution to preventing pests for libraries, archives and other institutions.

Chen Yan, also known as Chen Shiyi, he is a famous engraver in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. He engraved the writings of himself and his family in the name of “Shiyishi”, known as woodblock in the Shiyishi. The paper classifies and analyzes the types and contents of the published and extant documents of Chen Yan’s Shiyishi, compares them with Chen Yan’s Shiyishi engravings collected in the library of Sanming University, and sorts out the differences and analyzes the reasons. The engravings of Chen Yan’s Shiyishi make up for the lack of existing documents. It is the original physical archive material that supplements and improves the existing Shiyishi Series catalogue and the catalogue of woodblock in the Shiyishi. It also adds new content to Chen Yan’s literature and related research. It is extremely difficult to inherit so far, and its cultural relic value is self-evident.

The annotated edition of the Tongsubian collected by Xu Xingke in the Hubei Provincial Library contains 500 comments on vulgar expressions, handwritten by Huang Kan. As Huang Zhuo only includes 365 of these comments in his Remarks on the Tongsubian, the Tongsubian in Xu Xingke’s collection supplements the incompleteness of Huang Zhuo’s edition. The 135 comments left out by Huang Zhuo not only reflect his selection strategy in his compilation of the Remarks on Tongsubian, but also represent a complete overview of Huang Kan’s research on the Tongsubian.

Yue Jiazao’s some rare ancient books are collected in the library of Beijing Normal University. The author has compiled four types of inscriptions and postscripts in his books, transferred them and made further research and interpretation.

This paper introduces the background of Shanghai Literature Exhibition in 1937, details its specific process from the aspects of objective, organizer, date and venue, chronicles of events in preparation, numbers, types, characteristics and sources of items on display, processing and storage of displayed items, exhibition and follow-up operations. The author also analyzes its influence on enhancing patriotism, protection of local literature, the relationship between literature collection and use, and the understanding of Shanghai culture.