Chen Li briefly reviewed the historical background of the publication of Library Service Manifesto. He pointed out that several incidents concerning library service at the beginning of the 21st century call the public attention to the welfare nature of public libraries, and triggered discussions among librarians and library academics. The pilot reform on the cultural system and new policy of “free library, free museum and free gallery” jointly promoted the formulation of Library Service Manifesto. Wu Jianzhong pointed out that domestic library has reached a new level in terms of standardized services and professional improvement in the past 15 years under the guidance of Library Service Manifesto. The revision is an inevitable step towards service of higher quality in the new era, and serves as an important symbol of the maturity of the industry, as well as an open commitment to the joint development of libraries and society. Cheng Huanwen explained the symbolic significance of Library Service Manifesto as reflected in three aspects. First, it symbolized the self-regulation of the industry. Second, it stood for the understanding of the fundamental values of library industry. Third, it bespoke the return to rationality when libraries should think about how to integrate the values of equality and freedom into theoretical research and practices. Zhou Deming, while endorsing the role of Library Service Manifesto in promoting the development of library, reminded us that a higher level of professionalism would be emphasized in the future, calling for the exemplary role of chief librarians, advanced development of librarian team, novelty of technology and the continuity of innovation. Ni Xiaojian believed that Library Service Manifesto, although promulgated 15 years ago, still stood true in terms of its historical significance, guiding the nation towards service concept, people orientation, cultural rights, non-discriminatory service, open and cooperative mentality, and library spirit. We should, in accordance with the requirement of library development and characteristics of libraries of each level, further improve the content of the Library Service Manifesto, and keep the emphasis on the people-oriented service concept that endorses integrity and innovation. Na Yan suggested tapping further into the cultural connotation of Library Service Manifesto, and improving its content while ensuring that we stick to our unique path, answer the call of the times, enable the continuance of services, and remain to be open, inclusive, reciprocal and ready for exchanges.

In 2008, the Chinese Library Association issued the Library Service Manifesto, which was a milestone in China’s library industry. Fifteen years have passed, and facing the development of the times, we need to review and reflect on the library service concept and core values represented by the Manifesto. Therefore, the paper makes a textual analysis of the IFLA Trend Report issued by IFLA in the past five years (2018–2022), and sorts out and analyzes the content of the reports from seven aspects: “participation in social construction”, “equality and rights”, “eliminating the digital divide”, “universal openness”, “humanistic spirit” and so on. From this perspective, and based on the content of the Library Service Manifesto and the development trend of the industry, the paper proposes inspiration and thinking for the development of libraries..

The library service philosophy of “universal openness to the society, equal service, and people-oriented” as established in the Library Service Manifesto has played an important role in promoting the development of Chinese libraries. The article sorts out the main service philosophies of foreign libraries, reviews the process of Chinese librarians constructing library service philosophies, clarifies the concept and basic connotation of library service philosophy, and analyses the reflections and discussions on the philosophies about the public nature of libraries, people orientation, nation-wide reading, cooperation and sharing after the publication of the Library Service Manifesto. The article proposes that it is necessary and inevitable to revise the Library Service Manifesto moderately in advance, promote and reconstruct the library service philosophy, and further clarify the basic principles of reconstruction to meet the needs of library development.

During the period of the Republic of China, the great strides of the library cause and the self-needs of the development of Buddhism promoted the rise of the Buddhist library. Up to 1949, a total of 14 provinces across the country had established Buddhist libraries, mainly located in the present-day Yangtze River Delta region.The 1930s were the golden period for its development.Compared with traditional monastery libraries, Buddhist libraries exhibit the characteristics of being public, academic and pioneering. By arranging and analyzing the activities carried out by various Buddhist libraries, the paper identifies their major contributions to be promoting Buddhism, advocating Buddhism and innovating the classification of Buddhist scriptures. In sum, the Buddhist libraries in the period of the Republic of China were Buddhist undertakings, cultural undertakings and public welfare
undertakings.

Since modern times, the social landscape has changed dramatically. This paper discusses the development characteristics of Jiangsu private collections of books in modern times and its social direction from the perspective of historical context by focusing on the modern Jiangsu bibliophile group. From the spatial dimension, the bibliophile groups in modern Jiangsu are mainly located in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Suzhou. From the perspective of time sequence, the private collections of books went through the phases from prosperity to decline after the short-term prosperity in the early and middle period of modern times. The thoughts and characteristics of Jiangsu bibliophile group reflect the modern characteristics of “public use of private collection”, “equal emphasis on both collection and use” and “industrial and commercial industrialists have become a group of emerging bibliophile”. Based on the textual research and sorting out the main flow direction of private collections in Jiangsu, the visual Sankey diagrams are used to dynamically reveal the social flow direction of private collections of books in Jiangsu through the ways of “sale”, “donation” and “loss”. It shows that in the evolution of private and public collections in modern times, private collections have developed from the regional characteristics of long-term accumulation in Jiangsu, to the flow of their collections throughout the north and south of the country, and even spread abroad. The history of dispersing private collection into public collection, which gradually developed from a high degree of concentration to openness, can provide a reference for exploring the development of modern Chinese society and culture.

The purpose of the study is to investigate and analyze health information service projects for minors in US public libraries, with the aim of understanding the current state of service and providing references for Chinese public libraries to carry out related services. The study employs a network survey and case analysis to analyze the project types and service characteristics of thirteen public libraries that have developed successful juvenile health information service projects. The result reveals that health information service projects for minors in American public libraries are categorized into experiential projects based on social and emotional skills training, intervention projects based on physical fitness improvement, and learning projects based on balanced health information literacy. Establishing a social participation network based on resource linkage is crucial and requires in-depth community involvement. Additionally, it is important to explore demand, expand service projects, and provide ubiquitous extended services. The study also suggests segmenting groups and designing differentiated grading projects for minors. The findings of the study provide valuable insights and recommendations for Chinese public libraries.

This study focuses on the application of RFID in Shenzhen University Library to monitor the utilization of the library’s collection resources. It introduces the overall design, concrete implementation path, main functions and application scenarios of the book reading behavior monitoring system of Shenzhen University Library, and then summarizes the beneficial experience to provide solutions for libraries.

According to the modern library concept and trends of openness, wisdom, inclusiveness and sharing, Shanghai Library investigated the FOLIO open source library service platform, and created Yunhan, the Chinese version of FOLIO. With the open technology and the concept of “platform + application + community”, Yunhan library service platform is constructed in the Shanghai Library East to support intelligent service. The platform is self-hosted, scalable, cloud-native and observable, covering the unified management and discovery of library resources, full-scene services, and supporting a wide range of smart service scenarios. The paper discusses the construction, mentality, competitiveness, and sustainability for intelligent library service platform. The exploration of the Yunhan library
service platform in Shanghai Library is of great significance to the construction of intelligent library in
China.

The paper investigated the status of reading promotion organization construction in 42 first-class university libraries by means of website survey, interview and literature survey, analyzed the characteristics of typical organization structure and its embodiment in the design of library reading promotion organization, and proposed a matrix organization design involving the library director, full-time section, related sections with promotion responsibility and individual stimulated policies. The design is conducive to the institutionalized and professional development of reading promotion, as well as the innovative development of the overall promotion work of university libraries.

Ancient classical dictionaries are important cultural heritages of collections, and semantic association and knowledge discovery of ancient Chinese words can be realized by organizing the knowledge in them. Knowledge graph is a significant knowledge organization technique in artificial intelligence. The dictionary definition of knowledge graph is composed of entities, concepts and their relationships, which can realize intelligent retrieval and knowledge discovery. This article analyzes in depth the style and content structure of ancient dictionaries, designs the lexicographical knowledge ontology based on lexical semantics, termontography and resource description framework standards, and puts forward an idea to build a model through lexicographical knowledge graph on the basis of the structuralized knowledge representation of lexicon, concept and definition. According to this model, this article conducts the extraction of vocabulary concepts, relations, definitions and examples, finishes the transformation, storage and dissemination of associated data in the meantime. Finally, taking the classical dictionary Erya as an example, the article expounds on the construction process of knowledge graph of ancient dictionaries and its application in semantic search, intelligent learning, digital humanities and other scenarios.

With the implementation of policies such as the Action Plan for Enhancing Digital Literacy and Skills for All, digital literacy education has become one of the research hotspots in the field of library science. In order to provide reference for the development of similar courses in China, the paper adopts the methods of network survey, comparative research, and inductive analogy to explore the current status and characteristics of digital literacy education in foreign library and information science (LIS) colleges. According to theoretical analysis and practical research, the content of the digital literacy courses is divided into six dimensions, including learning and operation, application and innovation, interaction and reflection, safety and ethics, interdisciplinary digital literacy, and digital empowerment of traditional courses. These courses are mapped with the above dimensions. Research shows that foreign LIS colleges have relatively complete systems, more balanced categories, better use of the advantages of LIS disciplines, and focus on both technology and humanistic orientation. These aspects are worthy of reference for domestic LIS colleges.

Nobel laureates are representative of outstanding scientists, and their research mode, once revealed, can be helpful to promote the development of science. In the study, we take the Nobel laureates in physics from 1902 to 2016 as an example. A combination of BERT semantic model and AP (Affinity Propagation) clustering is used to detect the research topics of each laureate’s papers. Then the research characteristics of laureates are analyzed from two perspectives: concentration and diffusion. The empirical analysis of the Nobel laureates in physics shows that they share a similar pattern of research behavior, which is “concentration, continuation and extension”. Although laureates will conduct multiple research topics in different periods throughout their careers, they remain focused on the Prize-winning topics while being active in their research. And with the growth of age, they would gradually expand research into other topics beyond the Prize-winning topics.

As the infrastructure to realize the open sharing of humanities and social sciences data, the scientific data management and sharing platform has important practical significance and academic value. By using the method of network investigation and literature research, this paper studies and compares the current development status of data management and sharing platforms for humanities and social sciences at home and abroad from four dimensions—construction foundation, data foundation, management foundation and service foundation. It summarizes the development characteristics and shortcomings of platforms in China, so as to provide useful reference for the platform construction. From four aspects—strengthening the cooperation and communication in platform construction, ensuring the quantity and quality of data resources, improving the policies and functions of data management, and improving the demand and efficiency of platform services, this paper puts forward some suggestions for the future research and development of data management and sharing platform of humanities and social sciences in China.

The Yongle Canon is a national treasure and has important documentary value for compiling ancient books, but unfortunately only four out of ten-thousand of the Yongle Canon survive and are scattered all over the world. In 2020, two volumes suddenly appeared at an auction in France, and were auctioned by a Chinese person who spent huge funds, they finally overcame the impact of COVID-19 and were returning to China smoothly. This process has attracted attention from both domestic and abroad. This article attempts to sort out the two volumes of Yongle Canon’s appearance, return process, shape, special features and quotations, so as to reveal the overview of the two volumes of the Yongle Canon for the world.

Huang Shang has abundant collection of books, and has written a large number of colophons and postscripts which have both academic and literary value. Most of these colophons and postscripts that are written in Huang Shang’s published works have been edited. But some of the colophons and postscripts, which be written in Huang’s unpublished works, have not been edited. While these old unpublished works have been collected by various libraries. Now, by collecting Huang Shang’s colophons and postscripts which have been found in six kinds of ancient books in the Shanghai library and the National Library together, then we can discern the process of the delivery and collection of all books by textual research, and explore the concept and characteristics of Huang Shang’s ancient book collection, so as to comprehensively understand Huang Shang’s collection of books and his colophons and
postscripts.

Wen Lan Ge Gong Chao Si Ku Quan Shu Dai Fang Mu is the catalogue of missing books and volumes generated in the process of supplementary copying Wen Lan Ge Si Ku Quan Shu. There are two versions that can be seen so far: in addition to the popular lead-printed edition, there are also manuscripts in the library of Shandong University. There are differences between the two versions, which respectively reflect the supplementary copying of Wen Lan Ge Si Ku Quan Shu at different stages. The Shandong University’s edition was compiled between the 14th and 20th years of Guangxu Dynasty, while the lead-printed edition was revised by Yuan Jiagu during the Xuantong dynasty. Wen Lan Ge Gong Chao Si Ku Quan Shu Dai Fang Mu reflects the historical details of Ding brother’s “ Supplementary Copy in Guangxu dynasty”, and also reflects the promotion of cultural undertakings by the opening of public libraries during the Republic of China.