As one of the fields that first paid attention to the metaverse and followed its latestdevelopment, the library communities in higher education have conducted rich and brilliant theoreticalresearch studies and practical explorations. This paper comprehensively reviews the progress of theories andpractical applications from the following perspectives: The cognition of the metaverse library; The possiblefields of metaverse technology integration into the library; The application and exploration of the metaverselibrary; The theoretical principles, building path, and technology infrastructure for establishing the metaverselibrary; And the practical cases of the library’s metaverse applications implemented in the Shanghai Libraryand Fudan University Library. Finally, this paper summarizes the existing problems and difficulties, and thenoutlooks the future development trend and vision. Hopefully, this paper can provide helpful information forthe future development of the metaverse library.

This paper reviews the library social education thoughts of Liu Kwoh-Chuin, a famousscholar of library science. Liu regarded library as an important social education institution. Liu’s theoriesof social education of library included allowing libraries to help popularize education, constructingcommon spirits of nation and civil society through social education of library, promoting children’sreading by social education of library and advocating book education to develop culture. His goal wasto improve the society, and his theories of social education of library were changing with the changeof social ideas. He also combined the theory and practice of social education of library and had somecontributions in social education practices. His theories can be drawn upon by library in social educationimplementation.

The development of local public library standard started late in China, and has not evolvedperfectly yet. It requires theoretical guidance and practical reference. The United States is one of themost developed countries in the development of library laws and standards in the world. Therefore, thisarticle, based on per capita GDP and taking into account other regional factors, extracts the public librarystandards of a total of 21 states, and by means of content analysis, explores the similarities, differencesand characteristics of public library standards among regions with different economic development levelsin the United States. It concludes with the following enlightenment on the establishment of local publiclibrary standards in China: For the need of a balanced and adequate development, the comprehensivelibrary standard should be the first priority of local library standard; The purpose of standard formulationshould be specific and functional; The formulation of standards should follow specific principles.Standards should be different yet converging; The content of the standards should embody the ideas andconcepts of equality, inclusiveness, openness and high-quality development; The establishment of librarystandard in different areas of economic development should follow its internal law.

The judicial application of the Public Library Law is an important standard to test thelegislative effect of the law, and also provides a window of observation for promoting the futureimprovement of the law. Since its promulgation in 2018, the Public Library Law has played a significantrole in judicial practice. Through the statistical analysis of 165 judgment documents in the past three yearsafter the promulgation and implementation of the law, it is found that the judicial application of the PublicLibrary Law shows the characteristics of increasing cases year by year, uneven regional distribution anddownward shift in court level. In judicial practice, the Public Library Law claims the rights, declares thevalue, and enforces standardization. However, the law has many problems, such as excessive declarativeprovisions, weak direct binding force and low frequency of judicial application. In the future, it isnecessary to improve the legislative quality of the Public Library Law, perfect the reasoning componentof court judgment documents, and strengthen the popularization of law, so as to better promote the furtherdevelopment of China’s public library cause.

Childhood is an important period for developing independent reading ability. Based onthe framework of PIRLS2021, the paper designs and puts forward the independent reading standardsassessment model and methods. Grade 4 pupils in Nanjing and Huzhou were selected as the examinees.The results shows: (1) Independent reading ability is not only the important part of reading literacy, butalso the external reflection of reading literacy. PIRLS2021 reading literacy framework is applicablein Chinese context. (2) Independent reading ability is different from language ability, and regionaldifferences have limited impact on children’s autonomous reading ability. (3) In terms of reading purpose,there is a positive correlation between emotional reading and cognitive reading. The enhancement ofemotional reading ability can promote the level of cognitive reading ability. (4) In terms of reading ability,the positive correlation among four abilities, namely, retrieval, reasoning, integration and evaluation, andthe reading evaluation ability is the most noteworthy aspect.

Research on the Optimizing Construction of Paper andElectronic Digital technology and intelligent services have accelerated the development of “paper andelectronic literature” in university libraries, enriched the reading channels and broadened the readingscope. This paper puts forward optimizing strategies to solve the problems in the development of “paperand electronic synchrony” in university libraries.

With the development of the times, the group of library users who are eligible for“borrowing without deposit” due to their credit score, is expanding continuously. This paper analyzestheir characteristics based on the data of Ningbo Library in 2020, and puts forward the correspondingdevelopment strategy.

There were already many studies on the norms of citation description in ancient andcontemporary China, but few scholars noticed the evolution of the norms of citation description in modernChina. By using the method of historical research, this paper reviews the westernization process of thenorms of citation description in the period of the Republic of China from four research perspectives: theconsciousness of citation description, the elements of citation description, the type setting of referencesand the annotation of citations. It holds that the experience of westernization still has enlightenmentand significance for the present, especially in terms of nurturing international vision, keeping the localtradition, and adhering to the goal of standardization.

Yunnan has a vast collection of ancient minority books, which are important forunderstanding minority languages, history, religion, literature, and art. This paper collates the mainachievements in the publication of Yunnan minority ancient books, analyzes and summarizes the practicalproblems of publication and development, and puts forward suggestions for optimizing the publicationand development of minority ancient books in order to provide reference for future publication anddevelopment of minority ancient books.

There are much more interpretation and exploration of reading and reading promotion bypublic libraries in the new era of reading. This paper discusses the new thinking and new practices ofreading promotion carried out in the new environment after the opening of the Shanghai Library East.

concerns about people with autism. Bibliotherapy has gradually entered the field of autismintervention in recent years. Based on the analysis of the mechanism of action of bibliotherapy on autisticpatients, this study analyzes the application value of bibliotherapy for autistic patients, and proposes thekey and path of bibliotherapy applied to autistic patients, in order to provide a beneficial reference for thelibrary to develop bibliotherapy for autistic patients.

Digital humanities has been a research hotspot in the field of humanities, social sciences andinformation management in recent years. The academic circles have not yet unified their understanding.Criticism and reflection have always been there, whereas controversy and disagreement continue inthe digital humanities research. This paper attempts to sort out these disputes from the perspective ofcomparing digital humanities with its potential interlocutors from the four levels of digital humanities’concepts, research subjects, research paradigms, and technical tools in order to build consensus in thediscussion. It interprets the concept controversy from the dilemma of the definition of digital humanitiesas “umbrella”; explores the evolution of digital humanities research subjects from the perspective of roleconflict and role reconstruction; analyzes the alienation of digital humanities research paradigm from theopposition of scientific research and humanistic spirit; reflects on the tool paradox of digital technologyapplication from the perspective of labeling and algorithmic risks in digital humanities research.

is transferred. Today, with the high development of digital technologies, images should beincorporated into the data circulation link and become a “living” resource. The thesis first constructs thesemantic model of image knowledge from three parts: description level, organization level and contentlevel, which correspond to image metadata reuse, image reuse and content reuse respectively. Amongthem, the semantic model at the content level involves the four dimensions of the object target’s text, tag,region and semantic association. Based on the semantic model of image knowledge, the paper discussesthe construction of the image knowledge reuse chain from “reuse of images”, “reuse of annotations”and “hybrid reuse”. The case analysis part explores the advantages of image knowledge reuse from theperspectives of “image reuse”, “research independence” and “knowledge inheritance”, and tries to providenew research perspectives and operable paths for the digital humanities application of image resources.

In the post-truth era, fake news spread virally, hence, meta-literacy education with criticalthinking as the core becomes urgent and important. This paper discusses concepts of memes and metaliteracymemes, the advantages of using memes in meta-literacy education, and how meta-literacy memescan be used in fighting fake news—classification of fake news, identifying fake news, identifying newssources and readers’ self-awareness. It studies the teaching practice of using meta-literacy memes to resistfake news in Zhejiang University Library, so as to provide reference for other university libraries to usememes in meta-literacy cultivation.

To develop user personas according to patterns of user behaviors and user needs in thelibrary space and to provide essential information for the library to create precise and innovative servicestrategies. Taking Wuhan University as an example, this study divided the physical library space intosix user types according to working function and construction structure. By analyzing data extractedfrom the library system and questionnaire surveys, this study extracted the users’ behavioral data andneeds in different spaces. Through frequency analysis and the chi-square test, this study analyzed eachuser group in each user space. This study also visualized users’ data through cloud images to revealuser characteristics and develop multi-dimensional user portraits. This study developed user personas indifferent library physical spaces and identified the consistency and difference of the behavioral needs ofusers in multiple spaces. Therefore, this study provided a reference for those libraries planning to providedetailed user services in different library spaces.

The service and management of physical books has always been one of the important contentof university library work. The article introduces the concept of user portraits, based on the data ofShenzhen University’s phsycial book collection service system. Through data distribution statistics, usingcontent analysis and keyword extraction TF-IDF methods, it mines, describes and presents user attributes,user behavior preferences and the characteristic tags of user interest preferences, and constructs examplesof library user portraits for reference in library paper interviews, services and management decisionmaking,so as to improve the efficiency of physical book utilization.

The manuscripts of The Chronology of Pan Yue and The Chronology of Lu Ji in theNational Library are the earliest known Pan Lu chronologies in the Republic of China. It is designated asanonymous by the summary of The Collection of Manuscripts of Chronologies in the National Librarybecause of the lack of the author’s name, the time of compilation and bibliographic description. Afterresearch, we found that the two chronologies were first compiled in the 14th-15th year of the Republic ofChina when He Rong was studying at Beijing Normal University. After slight modifications, they werepublished in Zhiyong Series, and copied by Zhu Xizu into the chronology of the same name. He Rong’smanuscripts of great academic value were compiled by reference to various histories and Pan & Lu’santhology.

The manuscript copy of Kui Yong Liu Du, which is in Shanghai Library, came from NaitoKonan. Naito Konan hired copyists to transcribe the original copy of Kui Yong Liu Du collected in KyotoPrefectural Library. One of Naito Konan’s transcripts was sent to Zhang Yuanji. Zhang Yuanji acceptedthe transcript and donated it, and now the transcript is in Shanghai Library. There are handwriting wordsof both Naito Konan and Zhang Yuanji on the title page of this transcript. Prof. Lai Xinxia in his paperargued that the transcript of Shanghai Library was an incomplete version because of Naito Konan’sdeliberateness. After comparing all the copies of Kui Yong Liu Du, we can get the conclusion that thetranscript in Shanghai Library is a complete version. This paper also researches the friendship betweenNaito Konan and Zhang Yuanji as well as the details concerning Naito Konan’s sending this transcript toZhang Yuanji.