With the ongoing development of the knowledge economy and the widespread adoption of lifelong learning, reading clubs—serving as platforms for knowledge exchange and social interaction—have become increasingly significant. This paper takes offline folk reading clubs in Wuhan as a case study and provides a comprehensive analysis of their current development. Through in-depth interviews with key participants and the application of grounded theory for data collection and analysis, the paper identifies six core cultural factors that shape the sustainable development of these clubs: core cultural motivation, cultural operation mechanisms, cultural value systems, community-based cultural exchange, reading culture practices, and the broader socio-cultural environment. Based on these findings, the paper proposes targeted development strategies to support the long-term vitality of folk reading clubs.
The deep integration of digital technology with intangible cultural heritage (ICH) resources provides opportunities for the protection and inheritance of ICH. This paper has investigatedthe the current status of digital protection and inheritance of ICH in Hunan Library by field investigations, interviews, and online research. There are deficiencies in the following aspects: the development of ICH-related organizational structures, database construction, propaganda and promotion, cross-sector collaboration for ICH, and the activation and utilization of ICH resources. Optimization strategies have been proposed, such as strengthening the construction of ICH organizational frameworks, improving ICH database construction, innovating ICH promotion methods, fostering cross-sector cooperation for ICH cultural tourism brands, and establishing a digital ecosystem for ICH revitalizationand utilization.These strategies aim to promote the better protection, development, and utilization of ICH resources in Hunan Library,and achieve high-quality development of ICH protection and inheritance work.
The Heritage Science and Conservation Department at Oxford University Libraries offers a well-established and effective model for ancient book conservation, featuring a mature operational framework and significant achievements. Studying its practices provides valuable insights for enhancing ancient book conservation in Chinese university libraries. This paper employs online investigation, literature review, and email correspondence to examine the department’ s organizational structure, conservation projects, and operational characteristics. Drawing on its successful experience, Chinese university libraries are advised to establish specialized divisions and collaborative mechanisms, prioritize preventive conservation, strengthen talent development and knowledge transmission, advance the digitization of conservation efforts, and increase public engagement.
Academic salons play a crucial role in enhancing the scholarly competence of public librarians. This paper investigates the practices of academic salons in 12 leading public libraries recognized for their strong academic performance. The findings show that academic salons are characterized by strategic planning, professional organizational support, and collaborative engagement, all contributing to notable achievements. To further improve the organization and implementation of academic salons, policy support should be enhanced to ensure the depth and breadth of the content, the efficiency and practicality of the organizational methods, the diversity of the forms, and the objectivity and scientificity of the evaluation to support their sustainable development. Additionally, efforts should be made to increase publicity and expand the influence of academic salons, with the goal of building a highly professional and reputable academic brand.
The preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage are undergoing significant transformation in response to the changing times. As a highly interactive and immersive medium, digital games offer innovative avenues for the protection and promotion of ancient books. Ancient books, when used as source material in game development, can integrate with a variety of game genres, enabling the creation of distinctive cultural brands and offering substantial potential for creative utilization. Xi Yuan Ji Lu by Song Ci, for example, lends itself particularly well to the development of suspense or detective-style games, allowing this historical text to gain renewed vitality in the modern era.
Using the Wonderful Night at the Library reading promotion event at Changsha Library as a case study, this paper outlines the activity and analyzes its innovative features in five key areas: reading environments, content design, reading formats, modes of parent-child participation, and collaborative partnerships. The paper proposes optimization strategies including: enhancing thematic design and immersive storytelling to expand the scope of content; innovating interactive reading formats and promoting cross-media integration; strengthening parent-child engagement with ageappropriate interactive activities; and advancing cross-sector collaboration and resource integration to broaden partnership networks. These strategies aim to support the sustainable development of children’ s immersive reading promotion in public libraries.
Promoting traditional culture through reading is a vital means by which public libraries preserve and carry forward the essence of Chinese cultural heritage. This paper constructs a value co-creation model for traditional culture reading promotion in public libraries and examines the Spring Festival Cultural Temple Fair organized by Hunan Library as a case study. From the four dimensions of cultural value, social value, emotional value, and aesthetic value, the paper explores how the event exemplifies value creation. Based on the analysis of its outcomes and key takeaways, the paper proposes strategic approaches for promoting traditional culture reading in public libraries from a value co-creation perspective: empowering cultural initiatives by highlighting regional cultural attributes; fostering diverse collaborations to leverage platform-based resources; maintaining tradition while encouraging innovation in content and format; and optimizing integration to enhance the branding effect of reading promotion.
Grassroots public libraries often face challenges such as limited resources and single-channel dissemination when promoting the reading of local literature. In response, Jiaxing Library has innovatively launched the integrated media project Jiaxing in the Classics, achieving notable results. This paper outlines the project’ s implementation process, including the production of original short videos, and analyzes its key features and outcomes. Centered on the library’ s local literature collections, the project explores Jiaxing’ s cultural heritage and disseminates content through integrated media channels. It provides a valuable reference model for revitalizing local literature resources, conducting targeted reading promotion, advancing cultural tourism, and strengthening regional cultural confidence within public libraries.
Staff evaluation in university libraries should not focus on personality, but rather on achievements and jobrelated behaviors. It is an assessment of performance and persuasiveness grounded in professional responsibilities. The task serves as the fundamental unit and value carrier in professional work. Therefore, university libraries should establish an achievement-based evaluation system centered on task analysis. Evaluation tests show that person-focused assessments tend to reflect interpersonal or relational value, while performance-based assessments more effectively capture differences in position contribution value and possess stronger persuasive power. University libraries should, through position management, guide staff to pursue professional achievements. By structuring evaluation targets, relationships, methods, and outcomes around actual accomplishments, libraries can fulfill employees’needs for achievement and motivate them to pursue professional value more proactively.
This paper investigates various models of private book sharing under the broader context of the sharing economy. It argues that university libraries should expand the concept of private collection sharing to promote the collaborative construction and shared use of donated resources. To this end, the paper proposes several development strategies: broadening the scope of donations to build distinctive collections; emphasizing interaction and sharing to facilitate the circulation of donated materials; and actively participating in the campus-based reuse of second-hand textbooks. Looking ahead, it is essential to further explore the motivations behind reader participation in resource sharing and to seek pathways for sustainable development.
Establishing a scientific and efficient method for evaluating electronic resources is a crucial task in the development of university library resources and the enhancement of service quality. This paper focuses on foreign electronic resources and establishes two distinct types of evaluation index systems: one for foreign journal full-text databases, the other for foreign abstract databases. Using machine learning models, the study builds feature engineering for the indicator data, performs normalization, dimensionality reduction, and feature selection, followed by model construction, training, and the tuning and evaluation of different models. The KNN algorithm is ultimately identified as the optimal model, which is then used for objective evaluation of foreign electronic resources. The results indicate that machine learning models, compared with traditional evaluation methods, provide more accurate and efficient predictions, guiding electronic resource optimization in a more objective manner, thereby enabling libraries to make data-driven decisions.
School history culture carries significant education value, and school libraries play a crucial role in its development. This paper takes the library of Hangzhou Foreign Languages School as a case study, reviews its contributions to school history culture from three aspects: resource development, spatial restructuring, and activity innovation. It describes the establishment of a tripartite archival collection system integrating official documents, oral histories, and physical artifacts. The expansion of school history displays through the alumni library network, the integration of the library and school history museum, and the school’ s WeChat official account. The activities such as themed exhibitions, living libraries, and stage plays to help embed school history culture in student development. The paper further summarizes the innovative experiences of school history cultural practice from four perspectives—service innovation, institutional innovation, model innovation, and research innovation, aiming to offer a replicable model for secondary school libraries in developing school history culture.
