The rural public cultural services often face a development dilemma of exogenous forces. Through an investigation of the development practices of rural cultural cooperatives in Henan Province, this paper explores the endogenous development mechanisms of rural public cultural services. The findings indicate that such endogenous development relies on three foundational bases: institutional frameworks, local cultural resources, and technological support. On this basis, the endogenous development of rural public cultural services is realized through three core mechanisms: autonomy, collaboration, and resource sharing.

The government’s purchase of operation services is a key initiative in advancing the high-quality development of public cultural services in China and holds significant value in deepening social participation in the construction of public cultural facilities. This paper reviews the opportunities, objectives, processes, and key elements involved when grassroots public libraries adopt government procurement to implement entrusted operations. It further analyzes the practical experiences of different entrustment models, and proposes clear responsibilities and boundaries for governments, public libraries, and contracted enterprises, along with suggestions for selecting service providers, so as to offer policy references for decision-makers and libraries considering entrusted operations.

In the new era, digital intelligence literacy has become an essential component of personal core competencies and exerts a profound influence on children’s growth and development. Hence, children’s digital intelligence literacy education requires urgent attention. Based on child psychology, this paper analyzes the developmental stages of children’s digital intelligence literacy and, drawing on Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives, it constructs an educational framework across three dimensions: digital intelligence cognition, digital intelligence skills, and digital intelligence ethics. Specifically, digital intelligence cognition includes awareness, identity, and culture; digital intelligence skills comprise knowledge, competence, and thinking; and digital intelligence ethics encompasses safety, psychology, and social contact. Furthermore, the paper proposes pathways for public libraries to implement children’s digital intelligence literacy education, including building multi-source resource systems, creating hybrid learning spaces, innovating service models, and enhancing librarians’ capacity for digital intelligence services.

The paper verifies biographical information on the majority of officials in the Siku Quanshu Compilation Bureau , including their native places and the years in which they attained their highest degree in the imperial examination system, and examines the distributional characteristics of their institutional affiliations, native places, degrees, and the timing of their highest examination achievements. The findings reveal that the Siku Quanshu Compilation Bureau was established in accordance with existing institutional norms, with the Hanlin Academy as its core, and relied heavily on officials drawn from multiple central agencies. Selection was primarily conducted through institutions rather than individuals. The Grand Council was deeply involved in the compilation of the Siku Quanshu. The personnel structure of the Bureau was marked by diversity, intersectionality, and complexity. The distribution of officials’ native places closely overlapped with that of Qing dynasty jinshi degree-holders and officials presented at court during the Qianlong reign. While the majority of officials were jinshi, some juren and other officials on the zhongzheng List were also included. The largest numbers of officials were recruited from the cohorts of the metropolitan examinations held in the 34th, 37th, and 40th years of the Qianlong reign. Extensive relational networks existed among the officials, encompassing ties of
colleagueship, native-place associations, shared examination cohorts, and examiner–candidate relationship in the imperial examination.

With the rapid development of digital humanities, the protection and transmission of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) urgently require innovative approaches. Focusing on Tujia bamboo carving, this paper, grounded in the theoretical framework of digital humanities and employing gamified design through the Unity engine, reconstructs a knowledge service system for ICH. By analyzing the historical and cultural significance as well as the craftsmanship of Tujia bamboo carving, it develops an immersive virtual simulation game that transforms traditional craft knowledge into interactive and experiential digital services. It indicates that gamification not only enhances users’ active learning and emotional engagement with ICH knowledge, but also facilitates its dynamic dissemination and co-creation through virtual environments, task mechanisms, and social functions. This paper offers practical insights into reconstructing ICH knowledge services from a digital humanities perspective and provides theoretical support for innovating interdisciplinary models of cultural transmission.

As the primary medium through which the government advances nationwide reading campaigns, policies related to nationwide reading play a pivotal role in promoting reading across China. Based on 409 policy documents, this paper constructs a content classification framework and conducts a quantitative analysis of thematic features and policy instrument types at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. The analysis reveals that China’ s nationwide reading policies mainly emphasize publicity, guidance, and reading activities, while content related to support and safeguard mechanisms remains relatively weak. Clear differences exist in the use of policy tools across levels: national-level policies tend to adopt mandatory instruments, provincial-level policies focus on incentive-based tools, and municipallevel policies predominantly rely on informational means. The frequency of policy issuance is closely linked to major national events and shows an overall declining trend, although the thematic distribution of policies is highly consistent across the three levels. Based on these findings, the paper recommends establishing a multi-level policy coordination mechanism, developing a tiered resource allocation model, incorporating public feedback from nationwide reading participants into the policy-making process, and building a policy pilot and dynamic adjustment mechanism.

Taking Yuyao Library as a case study, this paper analyzes its collaborative practices with volunteer teams, educational and training institutions, universities, enterprises, and higher-level libraries in promoting children’s reading. It identifies four cooperation models: service procurement, project co-construction, public welfare support, and resource sharing. By outlining the characteristics of each model and examining representative cases, the paper explores pathways for enhancing children’s reading promotion in public libraries, including formulating stratified and targeted cooperation strategies, establishing flexible management mechanisms adapted to children’s reading characteristics, advancing digital collaborative innovation, and developing multi-dimensional evaluation systems. The findings aim to provide practical references for strengthening children’s reading promotion in Chinese public libraries.

Using the collaborative themed banquets featuring local celebrites between Jiaxing Library and the DoubleTree by Hilton Jiaxing as a case study, this paper explores how public libraries can infuse international hotels with cultural depth through cultural resources development and cultural activities planning. The cooperative practice demonstrates that such a model not only enhances the cultural refinement and market competitiveness of hotels, but also revitalizes and utilizes library resources, offering a replicable model for cultural–tourism integration.

Social memory, as a carrier of historical continuity and cultural identity, plays a central role in maintaining the continuity of civilization. Currently, libraries’ engagement with social memory remains largely confined to the traditional archival paradigms, lacking systematic theoretical frameworks and innovative practical mechanisms. This paper introduces the concept of “social memory-oriented special collections” and constructs a four-dimensional driving model—standardization, connotation, collaboration, and integration—based on the SECI model. Using the Zhejiang Folk Literature Special Collection at Hangzhou City University as a case study, the paper demonstrates how process and mechanism innovations can excavate regional cultural values and promote knowledge restructuring and innovation. The paper further proposes that the service practice of special collection resources should be deeply integrated into the university educational ecosystem, enabling the dynamic construction of social memory through research services, scenario-based education, and cultural dissemination.

Marketing planning talents play a critical role in enhancing the brand recognition of public libraries and optimizing service offerings, significantly impacting library services. This paper investigates the current status of marketing planning talents in public libraries and identifies several prominent issues: weak marketing awareness and insufficient talent numbers; homogeneous talent structure and inadequate professional skills; underdeveloped training systems and limited career development; and uneven regional development with significant urban–rural disparities. Based on these findings, a competence model for public library marketing planning talents is constructed, defining key elements across knowledge, skills, and personal qualities. The Attribute Hierarchy Model (AHM) is then applied to simulate and rank candidates. Finally, targeted talent selection recommendations are proposed, providing theoretical guidance and practical reference for improving service quality and competitiveness in public libraries.

Against the backdrop of comprehensively governing the country according to law, the construction of a society ruled by law has placed higher demands on the law-popularization work of cultural departments, and the function of public libraries in promoting law popularization and publicity has become increasingly prominent. This paper introduces the VRIO competitiveness analysis model to unveil the unique advantages of public libraries in terms of value, rarity, inimitability, and organization in law-popularization and publicity. Selecting the Civil Code as the research object and conducting field research in two public libraries, the paper points out the current deficiencies in areas such as the forms of law-popularization, the construction of professional support for law-popularization, the awareness of law-popularization responsibilities, and the linkage among departmental institutions. A strategic framework for law-popularization and publicity in public libraries under the VRIO model has been formulated to provide systematic solutions for enhancing the effectiveness of law-popularization and improving the legal publicity and education system.

Based on eight case studies of slow live streaming activities organized or co-hosted by public libraries, this paper systematically examines the current applications and core challenges of slow live streaming technology in public library service settings. The paper identifies four major issues in current practice：the absence of privacy protection mechanisms, overly uniform scene construction, one-way interaction design, and the absence of cultural symbolic value. In response, it proposes targeted strategies：enhancing privacy protection protocols, shifting from fixed camera positions to mobile perspectives, enabling user choice to foster two-way interaction, and developing a branding system to strengthen users’ cultural identity.