Chen Chao pointed out that by the midterm of the 14th Five-Year Plan, Shanghai Libraryhad basically built a world-class urban public library system, and had accelerated the transition intosmart hybrid library in the new era of reading. In the future, Shanghai Library will be committed to:innovation-driven transformation; strategy guidance and practice implementation; high-quality andsustainable development based on advantage; and building a new development paradigm. Wang Huijunpointed out that the professional development of public libraries was facing challenges from variousaspects such as new technologies, diverse demands, culture supply, and social transformation. Weshould reshape professional spirit, build a professional team, provide professional services, and realizeprofessional value. Chen Jun and Li Hao pointed out four aspects of professional work in NanjingLibrary: supporting the sustainable development of library through librarian specialization; promotingthe social reputation of library through program specialization; ensuring the professional developmentthrough system standardization; and supporting the equalization of public cultural services throughsystematization of international communication. Wang Jiantao pointed out that the influencing factorsof library specialization are multifaceted. To achieve high-quality development, libraries must enhancetheir professional abilities in five aspects: clarifying the functions of library specialization; clarifyingthe boundary of library outsourcing; strengthening the professional construction of library profession;promoting the professional capability of librarian; and connecting the researches and practices of library.Song Liping pointed out that the Hong Kong Public Libraries is committed to providing high-qualityreading activities, creating a good reading environment, providing diversified collections, and enhancingthe capabilities of librarians through continuing professional development, so as to unleash theirprofessional knowledge and potential, enhance their performance and achieve sustainable development oflibrary services.

The 2023 Annual Conference of Library Society of China was held in Zhengzhou. The themeof the forth forum was “Connotation and Shaping of Professional Competence of Readers’ AdvisoryLibrarian”. Participating experts discussed the professionalization of reading development in libraries, theconnotation of professional competence of readers’ advisory librarians, professional practice ability andacademic research ability, and so forth. This article aims to share the main points and highlights of theconference and provide guidance for the professionalization of reading development.

This article primarily discusses the data governance requirements and development patternsof large language models in the field of library and information science. Large language models rely onmassive amounts of text data for unsupervised pre-training and supervised fine-tuning. Domain-specificlarge models, on the other hand, are models that have been fine-tuned on domain-specific data to possessdomain knowledge and solve domain-specific problems to meet the needs of domain applications.The article aims to explore how to better apply generative artificial intelligence to libraries and relatedindustries to promote the development of smart libraries and provide the driving force for high-qualityservices. The article first reviews the breakthrough progress of generative artificial intelligence, and thenintroduces the basic principles and current applications of large models, as well as analyzes the datafactors and data requirements behind the various task capabilities of large models. Finally, the articlediscusses the application potential and development patterns of domain-specific large models. The maincontribution of this article is to analyze the application patterns and data governance of large models inthe field of library and information services, providing a theoretical basis and practical guidance for theapplication of generative artificial intelligence technology in the library industry. At the same time, it alsodiscusses the issues and limitations that need to be considered when applying and evaluating industryspecificlarge models.

Based on the concept and common technologies of artificial intelligence, this paperinvestigates the existing application and research exploration of artificial intelligence technology inthe library industry. It analyzes the trend of library technology development from the perspectivesof “technology development breakthrough” and “level of interaction with people”, and discusses thechallenges brought by the rise of AIGC technology to library knowledge service. In human society, withinthe different stages of the development of information technology, the mode of content generation and theinteraction level have changed. Libraries have followed these development trends, and experienced thetransformation process of automation, digitization and intelligence. The paper further discusses how tointegrate AIGC technology into professional work, as well as the implementation of AIGC technology inlibrary 3.0 environment. Finally, it considers the risks and challenges that AIGC technology may face inthe application of library

The application of digital humanities tools has lowered the entry threshold for humanitiesand social sciences computing, helped humanism to increase the probability of creating new methods,new rules and new theories, and gradually provided important methodological support for humanitiesresearch. Library has been a major force in the construction of digital humanities tools and services. Thispaper summarizes the current status of digital humanities tool construction through internet research andcase analysis, and summarizes the current practice experience and problems of Shanghai Library in digitalhumanities tool construction. It also outlines practical experiences and future directions in the constructionof digital humanities tools in libraries. This paper starts from the practical experience of Shanghai Library inthe construction of digital humanistic tools, and provides some ideas and suggestions for the library to bettersupport the development of digital humanistic tools from five aspects: multimodal tool development, digitalspecial collections construction, tool trendlines, tool platform integration, and embracing big languagemodels. It is proposed that libraries need to prioritize user needs in the construction of digital humanitiestools, gradually shift their focus to help humanities scholars in discovery scholarship, actively embrace thelatest technology, and adapt to advanced productivity development.

The intelligent service of ancient books in the new era has far-reaching significance forpromoting the creative transformation and innovative development of China’s excellent traditional culture.This article, through an analysis of the current status of intelligent services for ancient books, summarizesthe evolutionary path of these services. Taking the research service scenario of sequels to classical novelsin the Shanghai Library as an example, the article analyzes the challenges in constructing intelligentservice scenarios for ancient books. By combining practice and technological developments, it deeplycontemplates the utilization of digital humanities and artificial intelligence technologies for intelligentservices on ancient books in the new era. It puts forward suggestions to actively employ cutting-edgetechnologies like ChatGPT to address practical issues in intelligent services for ancient books, enhancethe construction of ancient book corpora, explore new modes of knowledge organization, establish acollaborative ecosystem, and promote innovation in intelligent services for ancient books

The paper takes the practical path of reading history research as a clue to sort out and reviewempirical research in this field. Through the overall investigation of reading history research since 2000, thispaper describes the diverse approaches from four dimensions: method origin, research object, historical datasource and research focus. On this basis, the paper concludes the achievements and deficiencies, hoping toprovide inspiration for the construction of the research framework of reading history. Nowadays, people’sreading behavior and reading mode are undergoing great changes. A review on studies of reading history ishelpful to understand the current reading trends and their far-reaching impact.

Zhao Wanli (1905—1980) was a famous scholar in the field of library science and classicstudy. During Zhao Wanli’s era, the main way of communication was by the correspondence. The mostcomplete collection recorded the information about the correspondences of Zhao Wanli is a book namedas The Chronological Biography of Zhao Wanli written by Dr. Liu Bo, however, there are still someomissions in that book. In this article, two letters of Zhao Wanli have been analyzed by textual research,the one was written by Li Fangfu in 1946 and the another one was written by Zhao Wanli in 1952. Bothtwo letters were not collected in Dr. Liu’s book. These two correspondences involve many importantevents such as the National Roosevelt Library and the Song edition of Jin Shi Lu, which are of greatreference value for the study of library history.

In the early years of the Republic of China, influenced by the late Qing Dynasty’s “StudyJapan” trend, the flourishing of social education, and the inducement of Japanese policies, there wasa renewed trend of visiting Japan for research purposes. The further development of modern Chineselibrary cause and library science research had a certain impact on the Japanese library cause and academiccognition of the explorers at the beginning of the Republic of China period. Their investigations primarilycentered around the management system and the social educational role of Japanese libraries. Whileacknowledging the achievements of Japanese libraries in terms of infrastructure, operational management,professional ethos, and social education activities, they also pointed out the issues present in theJapanese library science system. The visits by early Republican scholars to Japanese libraries objectivelypromoted the dissemination of advanced Japanese library concepts in China, facilitated the localizationand development of Chinese library science, and also expanded the scope of cooperation and exchangebetween Chinese and Japanese libraries.

After reviewing the development of ISBD and summarizing the changes of ISBD 2021Update, this paper explains the extension of the content to unpublished resources and the related changes.It also analyzes the significance of the inclusion of unpublished resources. At last, based on the difficultyof cataloging Chinese unpublished resources, the paper discusses the duel tasks of updating ChineseCataloging Rules and CNMARC.

Space value evaluation is one of the hottest topics in the library world. Using TEALS(Tool for the Evaluation of Academic Library Spaces) developed by Deakin University Library, thisarticle designed a survey to investigate the space needs of three middle school libraries in Wuxi City,and identified the evaluation indexes. The results showed that the spatial layouts of the three middleschool libraries are not conducive to student engagement. The libraries should take measures to meetthe needs. Also, this article constructed a space value evaluations cloud image model, analyzed anddiscussed attributes of the cloud image, and put forward corresponding suggestions for library space valueevaluation of the domestic middle school libraries.

Paintings are important image resources in the field of art. This study investigates theknowledge linkage and semantic description of paintings, which can deeply reveal the semanticinformation and linked relationship of paintings, and improve their semantic retrieval efficiency. Takingthe works of “Meta-Painting” in the Ming Dynasty as an example, we first describe the features of theimage from the physical, logical and semantic layers. Meanwhile, the semantic information of “metapainting”works is described from six aspects: graphic meaning, scene layout, storyline, characters,picture in picture and the artist’s aesthetic emotion. Then, we further propose the metadata framework of“Meta-Painting”, and construct the ontology of “Meta-Painting” works. Finally, we construct a model ofknowledge-linked organization of “Meta-Paintings” based on the linked data theory. This paper can revealthe semantic information of “Meta-Painting” works and further integrate other knowledge and resourcesrelated to the works. At the same time, it is an attempt to study the digitization of painting works, whichcan complement existing research on knowledge linkage and semantic description in the art field andprovide some reference for subsequent research.

In recent years, the lagging and reactive nature of debunking has prompted the efforts to seeka new pathway to health misinformation governance. The successful practice of prebunking interventions,based on the idea of “prevention is better than cure”, has made it an emerging tool in combatinghealth misinformation. Deconstructing the elements and interactions of prebunking is meaningful forunderstanding the theoretical connotation of prebunking and exploring a new way to combat healthmisinformation. Go viral, the Truth Labs for Education videos, the UNESCO ThinkBeforeSharingPrebunking Campaign, and Know the Fact on Twitter were selected as case studies in this study.According to the temporal logic of “problem identification -intervention design and implementation –intervention effectiveness” and combined with the activity theory, this study analyzed the main elementsand process of prebunking practices and summarized the enlightenment to our country. In the future, moredomestic prebunking practices can be developed in terms of clarifying motivations and ideas, building amulti-actor cooperation network, and enriching the form of tools and sustainability.

In 1901, the Qing government issued a decree to transform the academy into the school. Thedevelopment of the White Deer Cave Academy in Jiangxi province also entered a rapidly changing stage.Shanghai’s modern newspapers have utilized their advantages as a media to comprehensively report anddepict the White Deer Cave after the closure of the academy. From the perspective of Shanghai media tostudy the White Deer Cave can provide a more comprehensive and three-dimensional historical landscapeand images for the changes in the White Deer Cave Academy from 1901 to 1949, thus deepening thestudy of the White Deer Cave.

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, various collection and publishinginstitutions have actively carried out the collation and publication of the documents during the Republicof China by photocopying, editing and proofreading. Through the collection of this project, more than220000 kinds of original documents during the Republic of China have been obtained. From 1949 to2017, there were more than 2600 kinds of documents during the Republic of China have been publishedby photocopying and editing and most of them are the work from 2000 onwards. The type of these worksmainly include books, newspapers, periodicals, archives, personal data, reference books, compilation ofhistorical materials, as well as calligraphy and painting work, compositions, scripts, selected essays, photocollections, travel guides, preface and postscript, trademarks, school songs and school mottos. Amongthem, more than 2400 kinds of publications during the Republic of China that have been entered thesubitem including about 32000 kinds of original documents during the Republic of China and approximate3000 kinds of original documents during the Republic of China have been repeatedly published. Basedon the time sequence, this paper expounds the publishing status of the documents during the Republicof China, the main trends and problems: The number of the publications is increasing but the type isincomplete. The selected topics are becoming more and more extensive. The content has its own emphasisand the publishing institutions are centralized. The problem of publishing repeated because the focus istoo focused is serious. The large-scale trend is obvious, and the collection is extremely inconvenient.Paying attention to connotation mining and the index needs to be improved.