This article presents key insights gathered by the author during their participation in selectsessions of the 88th World Library and Information Congress (WLIC2023) held in Rotterdam, Netherlandsin 2023. The 88th WLIC showcased the evolving role of libraries as centers of innovation and knowledge. Under the theme “Let’s work together, let’s library,” the congress attracted over 3,000 delegates frommore than 100 countries, reigniting the perception of libraries as vibrant hubs of knowledge. This articleexplores ten thematic sub-conferences of the congress, including responsible AI usage, addressing toxicleadership, controlled digital lending, ensuring library accessibility, and the transformative potential of AIin academic libraries. Participants emphasized the potential of AI while also highlighting concerns relatedto privacy, bias, and information literacy education. The research methods employed encompassed datacollection, observations, and interviews with scholars and professionals. The discussion and reflectionsection underscored the potential of AI in libraries, emphasizing the significance of privacy, transparency,and AI literacy. Furthermore, this article delves into topics such as toxic leadership, library publishing,cybersecurity, and inclusive practices. It underscores the need for leadership to recognize the harmsof toxic leadership and promote inclusivity, advocacy for collaboration with the disability community,employee training, and designing for all. In conclusion, this article offers valuable insights into librarytrends, providing guidance on AI integration, workplace challenges, digital lending practices, and ensuringinclusivity.

The Satellite Conference on Information Literacy of the 88th World Library and InformationCongress (IFLA WLIC 2023) was held in the Netherlands. The theme of the conference was “LibrariesEmpowering Society through Digital Literacy Education”. Participants from multiple countries sharedvarious aspects of digital literacy, including news literacy and media literacy. This article aims to share thehighlights of the conference and provide reference for domestic digital literacy researchers.

On August 17—19, 2023, a satellite conference organized by the IFLA Art Libraries Sectionand the Rijksmuseum Library was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More than 90 participants fromover 60 related institutions in Europe and the United States discussed about the development of art historyliterature resources, digitization projects, the opportunities and challenges facing art literature and visualinformation in the field of digital collection, cultural heritage protection, and academic research, as wellas their future development. The conference centered around 4 topics: collections as data, data and ethicalperspectives, ongoing projects and local perspectives. This article introduces the content of the seminar,professional views and the future trends in Europe and America, in order to provide some clues for thedevelopment of art libraries in China.

management. Meanwhile, there are more and more problems in archival data, such as thedistortion, invalidation, loss of read, disorder, and divulge secret. Therefore, it is urgent to strengthen thecontrol of archival data quality. With the method of literature research, this paper analyzes the connotationand characteristic of archival data quality assurance. In virtue of the technology of traceability,immutability, ontology, sidechains, semantic blockchain, this paper discloses the characteristic of archivaldata quality assurance based on blockchain. This article proposes the strategies for archival data qualityassurance based on blockchain technology, from the aspects of rule of law construction, platform building,infrastructure construction, and talent cultivation, so as to promote the high quality development ofarchival data quality management and control.

This paper aims to identify major strategic directions of digital scholarship services ofacademic libraries in the strategic planning of world-class university libraries. Firstly, this paper obtained27 libraries’ strategic plans by accessing and reviewing the library websites of the top 50 universitieslisted in the QS World University Rankings. Then, the content analysis method was adopted to encoderelated terminologies for further refining the concept of digital scholarship services. Finally, it concluded24 digital scholarship terminologies related to digital scholarship activities and summarized 5 strategicdirections of digital scholarship services in academic libraries, that is, building digital infrastructures,advancing open scholarships, embedding in the academic life cycles, supporting digital empowermentsand expanding academic influences. Meanwhile, this study made proposals concerning the developmentof digital scholarship services in Chinese academic libraries, including building digital infrastructure tostrengthen academic competitiveness, enhancing digital literacy education to inspire digital competence,and implementing open scholarship services to expand academic influences.

With the development of digital scholarship and the construction of digital humanitiesprojects, more and more digital academic achievements are produced in diversified forms. As an importantpart of digital scholarship services, it has become an important task for university libraries to explore andpractice to provide support in publishing ways, construction methods and development strategies for theoutput of digital academic projects. Aiming at the three most typical types of digital humanities projectachievements, namely, digital academic works, digital application platforms, and digital research tools,and taking into account their achievements’ characteristics and library practical ability, a set of universitylibrary support system for digital academic diversified achievements is constructed, and targetedlibrary support strategies and practical promotion feasibility suggestions are put forward with a view togiving full play to the advantages of the library to support the publication, construction, development,dissemination and exchange of various digital academic achievements.

This article takes the main body of knowledge birth dissemination and utilization in theknowledge life cycle theory as the research path, explores the innovative value and innovative modeof reading promotion in metaverse library, and puts forward realistic challenges and implementationstrategies on this basis. The reading promotion of the metaverse library will increase the chances ofproducers to interpret the knowledge results, help the library to promote the innovation of multi-moderesources, and break through the barriers of readers’ reading participation. The innovative service modelsinclude: the knowledge producer model of creator integration; the knowledge disseminator model ofmulti-experience virtual reading and virtual librarian accompanying reading and multi-scenario embeddedreading; and the knowledge consumer model of user promotion. At present, metaverse library still facesthe challenges of space construction and security management, multi-modal resources development,and organization and innovation promotion. By creating a scene-driven library space, we can developand mine multi-modal resources, collaborate with cultural institution and explore new ways of readingpromotion.

Riding the wave of national reading, grassroots public reading space is becoming animportant grip on the cultural life of citizens and shaping the image of the city. The “Qiu Bai ReadingYard” is an innovative initiative of Changzhou to improve the effectiveness of public cultural services.Through literature, network and field research, this study selects typical venues with differentcharacteristics of “Qiu Bai Reading Yard” for case analysis, summarizes the general characteristics ofgrassroots public reading spaces, and draws corresponding inspiration from the development practice.Through the analysis of “Qiu Bai Reading Yard”, this study aims to provide reference and considerationfor the construction of public cultural spaces around the country, and promote the construction of a booklovingsociety.

Recently, with the increasing number of cultural heritage crowdsourcing (CHC) projects,the issue of project sustainability has gradually emerged and attracted the attention of academia.First, we collected domestic and foreign CHC projects and related literature, and identified thefactors influencing the sustainability of CHC projects through literature review and case study. Wethen adopted Delphi method to evaluate and determine the influencing factors. Finally, we proposeda framework including 7 primary influencing factors and 15 secondary influencing factors for thesustainability of CHC projects. The study aims to shed light on the practice of cultural heritagecrowdsourcing in cultural memory institutions and to provide a theoretical basis for future empiricalexploration of the project sustainability.

The entity recognition of the place in ancient poetry not only helps to deeply explore therelationship between ancient poems, but also helps to draw the distribution of Chinese poetry and promotethe study of Chinese classical literature in spatial dimension. The paper collected the data about theancient poetry of Nanjing and marked the place names with BIOES. Aiming at the lack of training data inthe field of ancient poetry, the paper proposed a place name recognition model in ancient poetry, whichused a data augmentation method and combined the pre-training model and CRF model, called DABERT-CRF model. In this paper, the training data was enhanced by the entity cross-exchange method.The context semantic information of the place names in ancient poetry was obtained by BERT model.Then, the CRF model was used to realize the constraint of the place name label and to generate the globaloptimal place name sequence. The average accuracy, average recall and average F value of the DA-BERTCRFmodel presented in this paper were 86.49%, 90.44% and 88.35% respectively.

Constructing multiple, systematic, flexible information literacy curriculum conducive to thediscovery of research hotspots and fronts in scientific research is not only the vital support for scientificinnovation but also an important development direction for research university libraries. This articlestudies the ability of knowledge creation and scientific innovation literacy on the part of researchers,investigates the domestic and foreign top research university libraries, and, on the basis of the ACRLFramework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, constructs information literacy instructionalcontents and support system that helps discovery of research hotspots and fronts. It also introducespractices of Peking University Library in this regard to provide preference for research universitylibraries.

This paper aims to analyze the factors impacting users’ behavioral intentions of accessingthe National Document Information Resource Guarantee Platforms (NDIRGPs). For this specificpurpose, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Technology Readiness Index (TRI) wereadopted to build a conceptual relationship model to verify the relationships among perceptions, personalattributes, and intentions. The following hypotheses were also proposed: users’ perceived usefulnesspositively influences their intentions of use; users’ optimism and perceived ease of use positivelyimpact their perceived usefulness; and users’ optimism and innovativeness of using platforms positivelyimpact perceived ease of use. Through designing a questionnaire survey to collect data and analyze therelationships among perceptions, personal attributes, and intentions, and building a structural equationmodel to test the hypotheses, we found that the users’ perceived usefulness was positively correlatedto their intentions of use. Users’ optimism and perceived ease of use were positively correlated totheir perceived usefulness, and users’ optimism and innovativeness of using platforms were positivelycorrelated to their perceived ease of use. Finally, we made some recommendations for further developingand improving the NDIRGPs.

In June 2008, the 20-volume Complete Works of Xiao Jun which was published by HuaxiaPublishing House covers almost all his manuscripts. this works provides the valuable documents andhistorical materials for Xiao Jun studies and the modern and contemporary Chinese literature studies.However, Xiao Jun created abundantly and published numerous articles in his lifetime. Editors failed toreview all documents and materials and resulted in a few omissions in the Complete Works of Xiao Jun.Recently, another five works written by Xiao Jun, which have not been collected in Complete Works ofXiao Jun, were discovered when I collected red documents in Yan’an period. This paper aims to annotateand interpret these five works and make a contribution to the study for Xiao Jun.

The woodblock-printed Shi Ji (Records of the Grand Historian) of Yuan Dynasty annotatedby Yang Shaohe in his Ying Shu Yu Lu was once lost after Fu Zengxiang looked over it, until the authorfound it recently in the Yuan’s complimentary books collected in the library of Zhejiang University.Through the physical research, it can be concluded that this edition is indeed a woodblock-printed whichreprinted by You Ming as Fu said. The reasons for people’s misjudgment are as follows: ① As a re-carvededition, its characteristics are similar to that of the Zhongtong edition, and Jianyang engraving editionin the early Ming Dynasty inherited the font style of the Yuan Dynasty; ② As a post printed edition, thewooden records of “Fengcheng You Ming Da Sheng Corrected” have been gouged out; ③ Five articles inthis book, including Shi Ji Zheng Yi Xu, which with a wooden record of “Fengcheng You Ming Da ShengCorrected and Added” have been taken away, so there is no any trace of You Ming; ④ The last seven linesof Dong Pu's Preface was cut off, and the words ‘Huang Yuan’ in supplementary copy on the basis ofShen Du Zhai’s edition which copied in Ming dynasty misled some people.