Dear colleagues of Shanghai Library, dear colleagues in China and in other parts of the world,If you listen to me. I’m Barbara Lison, President of IFLA, and I am happy that I have the opportunity to talk to you on behalf of IFLA and at the occasion of this wonderful new building in the Shanghai Library, the east building which is a new landmark to the whole city of Shanghai, I would like to talk to you about IFLA, and how IFLA works together with the libraries, how IFLA supports the libraries, and how IFLA supports you.

The studies on the open data ecosystem have theoretical and practical implications for thedata market and digital economy. This study is to review the status quo in the research on open dataecosystems and identify the directions of future studies by finding the weak sides of existing literature.The research methods are systematic literature reviews. The investigated literature databases includeSemantic Scholar, ACM Digital Library, IOS Press Content Library, Sage Journals, Wiley Online Library,Taylor & Francis Online, ScienceDirect, Oxford Academic, Emerald, ProQuest, and CNKI. After asystematic review, this study extracts a topical framework for the research on the open data ecosystem andthen discusses the status quo of each topic. The research domain of open data ecosystems is a tributaryof the research on the open data, which is still in the middle of development and needs the attention ofresearchers, especially regarding models, elements, and effectiveness assessment of open data ecosystems.Furthermore, the governance structure, operational mechanism, the nurturing and evolution of the opendata ecosystem could become the topics of future studies.

As an important information resource, scientific data has become a new object of academiccitation. Through literature research and network research, this paper sorts out the generation anddevelopment process of scientific data citation. It then summarizes six main research issues of existingachievements—the subject of scientific data citation and its responsibilities, the object of scientific datacitation, the technology of scientific data citation, the scientific data citation standard, the behaviors andcharacteristics of scientific data citation, and the evaluation of scientific data citation. Finally, it suggestsstrengthening the research on scientific data citation standards, infrastructure of the whole process anddata citation functions.

From the perspective of safety and security intelligence (SI), safety and security intelligencefailure (SIF) is the main cause of safety and security management failure. Therefore, the study of SIFavoidance strategy is of great theoretical and practical importance. Firstly, based on the intelligencefailure theory and safety and security science, this paper puts forward the SIF under the big safety andsecurity concept, and discusses the types of SIF with examples. Secondly, by analyzing the causesand countermeasures of SIF with the Wuli-Shili-Renli System Approach (WSR), the paper proposes aSIF avoidance strategy system based on WSR. Finally, this paper takes the prevention and control ofCOVID-19 epidemic as an example to analyze the application of the established SIF avoidance strategysystem. The research shows that the SIF avoidance strategy system based on WSR emphasizes onsolving the SIF problem from the overall perspective of “Wu” “Shi” and “Ren”, including adapting to SIattributes, improving SI environment, and understanding SI personnel.

As an ontology model, BIBFRAME is the key to the realization of linking of librarybibliographic data, and has been widely used in the library community. Based on the class and propertyanalysis of BIBFRAME model and vocabulary released by the Library of Congress, this paper discussesthe application of BIBFRAME model in linked data based on PCC, LD4P and Share-VDE projects, inorder to explore the key elements in the design of library linked data. Through the analysis, it is found thatBIBFRAME provides support for Linked Data Projects from the aspects of term mapping, model expansionand platform application. In other words, BIBFRAME provides a set of terminology system to realize thesemantic transformation of CONSER standard record. The paper also expands the BIBFRAME model andconstructs the bibliotek-o ontology model, which provides a good demonstration for the expansion andapplication of various thesaurus resources such as ontology. It provides a hierarchical structure search basedon BIBFRAME work, instance and item for the construction of the project platform. And the developmentof BIBFRAME is considered from two aspects: dynamic adaptability and reuse.

Affected by the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, all colleges and universitiespostponed the start of the 2020 spring semester. The demand for off-campus access to the library’selectronic resources increased sharply. While expanding off-campus access methods and the bandwidthof off-campus access system, university libraries needed to effectively guide patrons to access in themost optimal way. We sorted out the off-campus access methods of electronic resources, and ranked themaccording to the strength of recommendation as the data basis for guiding users. The WeLibrary WeChatmini program was developed to provide users with one-stop access to electronic resources off-campus,and to guide users to access electronic resources in the best way. Through the drainage of multiple accessways, the peak number of visitors to the off-campus access system decreased from 400 to about 300, andthe access to electronic resources through shibboleth mode increased significantly–for example, CNKIincreased from 35% to 66%–which ensured the off-campus access of faculty and students to libraryelectronic resources.

As one of the major cultural projects benefiting the general society, Farmhouse ReadingRooms project is a core element of rural revitalization. Along with the development the urban-ruralpublic library service system integration, Jiaxing city aims at upgrading the farmhouse reading rooms,and focuses on the construction of auditorium library. It adopts a constructive idea of government-led,integrated development, unified management and pluralistic integration, and takes innovative practicesin terms of resources, functions, services and management. It provides a generalizable, replicable andeffective sample for the enhancement and sustainable development of rural public reading service system.

Drawing on cultural scene theory, we explore reading promotion in college libraries fromthree dimensions of authenticity, drama and legitimacy, as well as their sub-dimensions. Taking the scenebasedreading promotion activity of Xiangtan University Library, the play “Original Intention”, as anexample, we conduct scene interpretation and scene measurement to elaborate the practice of readingpromotion. The overall performance is good, but we also notice slight deficiency in four sub-dimensionsof rationality, self-expression, good will, and fashion. We thus propose to discover quality promotioncontents from the dimension of “authenticity”, to construct inclusive cultural scenes from the dimensionof “legality”, and to guide immersive experiences from the dimension of “drama”, so as to enrich thescenario-based reading promotion practices by college libraries.

The mastery of job skills of reading promoters has a decisive influence on the success ofthe reading promotion; thus how to develop their job skills is a topic of interest for both researchers andpractitioners. A mixed method was adopted to address this issue. Firstly, through focus group interviews,six skills of reading promoters were established: familiarity with literature, user research skill, eventmanagement skill, hosting ability, publicity skill, and evaluation skill. Secondly, based on a large samplesurvey, we explored the reading promoters' self-assessment of their mastery of these skills. Specifically,the differences in self-assessments between different groups were compared and the relationship betweenself-assessment and job satisfaction was also investigated. Theoretically, the study adds to the bodyof knowledge on reading promotion, particularly reading promoters. Furthermore, it has a practicalimplication as to how to develop the job skills of reading promoters working in libraries.

The IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto was updated in July 2022 from its last versionpublished in 1994. This paper provides an unofficial Chinese translation of this document done by theauthor and compares the two versions based on this translation.

With the advancement of the global open access movement and the S plan, countries haveresponded positively and carried out open access conversion negotiations. Negotiations between theUniversity of California system library and Elsevier have drawn widespread attention. This paper analyzesand summarizes the negotiation process, practical measures, characteristics and successful experience ofthe open access transformative agreement in the University of California system library. In addition, thispaper also lists the suggestions for Chinese university libraries regarding similar negotiations based on the actual situation in our country.

In the context of new liberal art, the construction of the Digital Humanities Laboratory(DHL) for the cultivation of digital talents and the improvement of digital skills and digital thinking isat the right time. As an interdisciplinary public service unit of the University, the university library hasan irreplaceable advantage. The paper investigates the current state of the selected DHL in colleges anduniversities at home and abroad, compares those labs in terms of their research directions, achievements,infrastructures, and technological methods, and, by way of elaborating on the concept of “shared scene”,analyzes the four constituent elements and four critical nodes of creating DHL in libraries. Taking thelibrary at Shanghai International Studies University as an example, this paper explains how to integratethe four constituent elements into the construction of the DHL: space-time presentation, infrastructure,participants, and interactive experience. Also, it explores the integration model of the collaborationbetween the library and discipline programs under the context of new liberal arts. Finally, it suggests thatDHL pays attention to the four key elements: space, platform, training, and management so that DHL canmeet the needs not only of education but also of talent training.

Through an analysis of instructional cases on Digital Humanities at domestic and foreignuniversity libraries, this study summarized five essential points on the instructional content frameworkfor digital humanities: understanding the theories and research methods in each disciplinary; cultivatingdigital awareness and thinking; mastering digital tools, technologies and resources; managing data andinformation; and displaying achievements. Based on the Modular Theory, functions and advantages ofuniversity libraries, and characteristics of digital humanities, this study uses the five points summarizedabove to build an instructional content framework for digital humanities at university libraries. Theframework has three levels: core content level, module level, and subject level. The framework can serveas a standard for university libraries to provide instructions on digital humanities.

The National Review is a publication jointly published by the Japanese organizations of theCommunist Party of China and the Tokyo Branch of the Kuomintang during the first cooperation periodbetween the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China. First published in Tokyo, Japan, in June1925, there were three issues of it. Under the guidance and operation of the early Japanese branch of theCommunist Party of China and the Communist Youth League, The National Review was an importantmedium for the Communist Party of China to spread Marxist Leninist theory and to publicize the nationalrevolutionary movements abroad. As far as the value of historical data is concerned, The National Reviewdirectly reflects the ideological level and revolutionary activities of the early Japanese branch of theCommunist Party of China, the Communist Youth League and their members. It was also an importantdocument of the research on the history of early propaganda of the Communist Party of China.

During the late Ming Dynasty, literati’s requirements for refined and elegant lifestylesincreased compared with the early and middle Ming dynasties. At this time, a book named SuperfluousThings, written by Wen Zhenheng, depicted the typical lifestyle. Wen’s writings on paper, calligraphy andpaintings, brush and ink, and fittings embodied measures and ideas of the ancient people in calligraphyand painting collection, appreciation and protection. Based on his writings on the protection measures,this paper discusses the protection thoughts of painting and calligraphy reflected in Superfluous Thingsfrom two aspects, namely influencing factors and comparative studies of protection thoughts, which canprovide references for the protection of modern paintings and calligraphy.

The nine manuscript copies of the “Catalogue of the Qun-bi Lou Collection” in the ShanghaiLibrary were compiled in the 1906, 1916, 1927, 1928 and 1930s respectively, and are important recordsof Deng Bangshu’s book collecting, proofreading and vending activities during more than thirty years.The compilation style is slightly simpler than the two published catalogs, but it is of documentary valuein presenting the collecting interactions among friends and the details of Deng’s book collection, and incorrecting the errors of previous studies.

The Bower Manuscript unearthed in Kuqa, Xinjiang started the modernization ofArchaeology in Central Asia. Its form is “Pothi”, a specimen in the development of book binding form inChina. Its style has certain reference value for identifying contemporary Sanskrit texts. Bower Manuscriptis the oldest extant Indian Sanskrit medical book. It is of great significance to study the inheritance ofschools of Indian medical history and the development of Buddhist medical history. The oldest dicedivinationrecorded in the Bower Manuscript provides references for the historical interaction betweendice divination in India and Xinjiang and Tibet, China. It provides the earliest Sanskrit text of the Mahāmayūrī-vidyā-rājan, which provides empirical materials for studying the origin of this classic. It is alsoof great significance for studying the development process of early Esotericism of Buddhism and theinfluence of early esotericism on Chinese civilization.