Constructing future learning centers in academic libraries is an effective way to promotethe digital transformation of higher education and improve the quality of digital services in libraries. Byinvestigating the status quo of academic libraries participating in the construction of learning centersaround the world, this article summarizes excellent experience from the aspects of naming, constructionsubjects, space planning, and service content of learning centers, in order to provide references fordomestic academic libraries to build future learning centers.

The development of Education 4.0 has led to the establishment of future learning centers,aiming to promote student autonomy, collaboration, and teamwork in the learning process. In this context,libraries, leveraging their accumulated expertise in smart library construction, are poised to play asignificant role in the development of future learning centers. Based on an analysis of the characteristicsand multifunctionality of future learning centers, this paper proposes the integration of scenario-basedconcepts into the design of these centers, specifically tailored to the competency development needs offoreign language institutions. These specialized scenarios encompass language proficiency cultivation,cross-cultural communication, interdisciplinary integration support, and overseas experiential learning.Furthermore, the paper presents a comprehensive integration and construction approach, encompassingresources, spaces, technologies, and personnel, drawing upon the prior practices and explorations of theShanghai International Studies University Library. This research provides strategic recommendations tofacilitate the transformation of students’ learning approaches in the future.

Today, with the rapid development of information technology and artificial intelligence,digital and intelligent transformation is reshaping the landscape of higher education. The global strategyfor education digitization is accelerating, and the education paradigms and learning methods are constantlychanging. In 2023, the Department of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education emphasized theneed to explore and promote pilot programs for future learning centers. This initiative aims to leveragethe advantages of university libraries, integrate diverse learning resources within schools, and harnessthe potential of new-generation information technology to establish grassroots learning organizations thatsupport the transformation of learning methods. This paper takes knowledge-driven smart education as itsfoundation to empower top-notch talent. It presents a concrete vision and implementation pathway for theconstruction of “Future Learning Centers,” encompassing the mission, construction paradigm, content,and mechanism system. The Future Learning Center has been gradually implemented in the library ofBeijing Institute of Technology. The intention is to provide valuable insights for the development of a newparadigm in first-class talent training.

In the environment of innovation and development of China’s higher education, the constructionof future learning center is an important direction of library work during the “14th Five-Year Plan” periodand even in the future. This paper takes the construction of the library of National Cyber Security College asan example, summarizes the practical experience of its space construction and system construction, and putsforward some thoughts and suggestions for the future construction of the learning center.

The construction of the future learning center requires the library to pay close attention to thenew development and new needs of higher education, and serve the teaching and educating people in thenew era. This paper points out the application scenarios of the future learning center in the constructionof smart libraries, and takes the exploration of the library of Xi’an Jiaotong University as an example tosupport students’ independent learning and lifelong learning by reshaping the three service scenarios ofspace, resources, and learning. The future has come. When the library is transforming and upgrading to asmart library, it must take the initiative to attack and actively research based on the construction conceptof the future learning center, integrate into the general environment of the future learning center, andexplore how the smart library can serve the future learning center.

In August 2022, the Harvard-Yenching Library welcomed its fourth director, Mr. YangJidong, who was interviewed by Dr. Kong Fanjing and Dr. Qian Lixiang, visiting scholars from theInstitute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University. Initially, Director Yang reviewedhis interdisciplinary research experience, shared insights from his management positions in severalesteemed U.S. colleges and universities, elucidated three opportunities in assuming the role of directorat the Harvard-Yenching Library, and disclosed the existing challenges in terms of space and staffing,along with the corresponding measures to address them. Subsequently, Director Yang introduced thecurrent status of construction and digitization efforts concerning special collections, such as rare books,within the Harvard-Yenching Library. He expounded upon the content and methodologies employed insubject services and expressed anticipation for changes in library service models in the post-pandemicera. Finally, Director Yang shared his perspectives on the utilization of metaverse technology in libraries,highlighting two prominent trends in the contemporary library industry: special collections and digitalhumanities. He appraised the digital humanities projects at both Harvard and Stanford Universities andprovided recommendations for the development of digital humanities in China.

The academic evaluation system is an important vane for creating a good academicecological environment and leading the prosperity and development of academic research. This paperreviews On the System of All-Round Evaluation of Research by Professor Ye Jiyuan to give reference forthe research and practice of academic evaluation. This paper analyzes and comments from four aspectsincluding the chapter structure, content characteristics, core ideas and unique value. This book is forwardlooking,predictive and instructive, and reflects Chinese characteristics. It provides new exploration andexperience for the development of academic evaluation system with Chinese characteristics.

Specifications of Public Library Service for Persons with Dyslexia is the first nationalrecommended standard to guide public libraries at all levels in carrying out services for persons withlearning disabilities. The development of integrated services for people with dyslexia in public librariesis an important and organic part of improving public cultural services. Using content analysis andcomparative research, the authors analyze the similarities and differences between the Specifications ofPublic Library Service for Persons with Dyslexia and the internationally accepted guidelines, and pointout that the historical schema and future trends of services for dyslexics in public libraries are mainlytmanifested in: the policy direction from inclusive education to integrated development, the practicalmotivation from local exploration to national promotion, the theoretical dimension from humanisticconcept to institutional tools, and the realization framework from one-dimensional promotion to industrycommon initiative. Based on this, the implementation path for the development of integrated servicesfor dyslexic groups in public libraries is proposed: to promote multi-subject collaboration of integratedservices for dyslexic groups, to improve the integrated service promotion system, to build a brand ofintegrated service activities, and to provide integrated services for dyslexic groups in China.

The development of intelligent libraries in universities in Education 4.0 environment cansolve the problem of social needs and higher education gap. Based on data connectivity, it supportsstudents’ personalized learning and stimulates their innovation and creativity by creating a learningenvironment across integration. Constructivism and informal learning theories drive the constructionof intelligent libraries from the perspective of collaborative and all-time knowledge services. Basedon the exploration of its predecessors, Shanghai International Studies University Library proposed theways to realize intelligent libraries in colleges and universities, initiated practices in some areas andcontinuously summarized the experience and thoughts from the process, in order to provide reference forthe construction of intelligent libraries in colleges and universities.

In recent years, with the proposal of the cultural development strategy of “National Readingand Building Scholarly China” reading promotion has become the focus and hotspot of universitylibraries. From the perspective of readers, this paper builds a new service model that combines the readerrecommendation bookstore with the reading promotion of University Library based on the practice ofShanghai University Library. By focusing on the innovative reading promotion space that emphasizesresource and readers’ independent participation, the reading promotion service system aiming atcultivating readers’ habits, and the cooperation form of making full use of university resources to expandthe reading promotion service, this paper analyzes the advantages of bookstores in breaking through thetraditional barriers and service image of university library’s reading promotion, and the correspondingmain problems of current university’s reading promotion service. Finally, it summarizes the practicalexperience of bookstores in the development of reading promotion services to mine and meet thepersonalized needs of readers.

The knowledge organization and knowledge service research on the information of theSouthern Dynasties’ mausoleum stone carvings can improve learners’ immersion and interactionexperience, promote the semantic process, and promote the dissemination and utilization of culturalheritage through the knowledge graph development based on ontology. Firstly, based on the demandanalysis, the feature concept was analyzed from the three perspectives of basic information, visualfeatures and cultural connotation to complete the construction of the ontology model of the SouthernDynasties’ mausoleum stone carvings. Secondly, Danyang Mausoleum stone carvings were studied n as anexample to complete knowledge acquisition and knowledge fusion, and the knowledge graph constructionwas completed with the help of the Neo4j graph database. Finally, through knowledge semantic display,knowledge query and knowledge discovery, the knowledge service design of the Southern Dynasties’mausoleum stone carvings is completed. The results show that the knowledge graph can reduce theknowledge threshold, display the cultural connotation, and improve the interaction between informationresources and audiences. This study provides a new idea for the development and utilization of theinformation resources of stone carvings in the Southern Dynasties, and also provides a new perspectivefor the inheritance and protection of stone carvings resources.

The development of digital humanities promotes the process of digitization of ancient booksof Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The study constructed the TCM database, explored the implicitrelationship between knowledge factors, and gave play to the knowledge service function of the database.Taking postpartum abdominal pain as an example, this study constructed the database of prescriptions forpostpartum abdominal pain through automatic word segmentation, text entity information acquisition,medicine performance information acquisition and data storage. By frequency analysis, the maintreatment methods of postpartum abdominal pain in ancient books of TCM were discussed. Based onthe improved Bina-Apriori algorithm, the compatibility law of puerperal abdominal pain was explored.Through the analysis of the diachronic distribution, this paper found out the times of greater contributionto prescription application, and realized the knowledge service function of prescription knowledge base.The application of digital tools in the construction and application of prescription knowledge base ofancient books of TCM can realize the structural representation of explicit knowledge and the deep miningof tacit knowledge, and provide support for the development of digitalization of TCM.

In the era of scientific and technological competition, the identification and mining oftechnological opportunities lay an important foundation for the formulation of scientific and technologicalR&D guidelines and policies. A quantitative method based on link prediction is proposed to transformthe task of technological opportunity discovery into a binary problem of whether there can be cooccurrencelinks between technological elements, so as to provide detailed data assistance and supportfor technological opportunity identification. Obtaining patent data in the field of privacy protection,constructing IPC co-occurrence network, training GNN model GraphSAGE, and after obtaining thelink prediction score, the authors identify the technology opportunities for sustainable development,breakthrough and innovation and the technology opportunities for transformation from the perspectivesof enhanced, newborn and declining links respectively. Finally, they analyze and put forward suggestionsbased on the identified technology opportunities.

The Qing Dynasty transcript Zhejiang Jiejin Shumu is collected by Harvard-Yenching Libraryof Harvard University. Through textual research on Achieve of Compiling Sikuquanshu, it can be learnedthat the original manuscript of Zhejiang Jiejin Shumu was a list to record the books presented to emperor byZhejiang bibliophile and compiled by Sanbao who is the Zhejiang governor in the 42nd year of the Qianlongreign. The reason why Sanbao submitted this copied list is to provide a detailed catalogue which can collatethe books presented to emperor by Zhejiang bibliophile for the Siku Quanshu office so as to sort and returnlater. By consulting Siku Caijin Shumu and Sikuguan Jincheng Shujidibu, Zhejiang Jiejin Shumu can be usedto check the number of books presented to the emperor by Zhejiang bibliophile and correct the errors of thebook titles in each version of the catalogues of submitted books. The book also includes some annotationswritten by Tan Dusheng who is a Beijing bookseller in the late Qing Dynasty. Qianlong Zhejiang ChengjinShumu which are collected by National Library of China and Nanjing Library are both the duplicates thatcopied by Tan based on Zhejiang Jiejin Shumu to make a profit.

Yuzhangshu is compiled by Guo Zizhang in Ming Dynasty in Wanli year. It is the firstprovincial chorography with more than 100 volumes in the history of Jiangxi Province, it is also amasterpiece of Jiangxi’s chorography. Unfortunately, Yuzhangshu has been lost and we only have afew research findings about the book. But in fact, this book has been widely quoted and corrected bymany local chorography of Jiangxi Province in the Qing Dynasty. Guo Zizhang’s Qiancao recorded thecomplete catalogue, notes and prefaces of Yuzhangshu. The compilation process and style characteristicsof Yuzhangshu can be understood through Qiancao. Yuzhangshu adopts a biographical style with morethan half of the characters’ biographies and adds memorabilia. At the same time, Guo Zizhang paid moreattention on historical and geographical contents and cataloging of local documents. The Yi Wenzhi surveyof this book is the first bibliography that specifically records books of Jiangxi province.