Public libraries serve as key platforms for knowledge dissemination and cultural exchange. Leveraging new media to present their image to the international community helps foster global cultural exchange and mutual understanding. By analyzing the intrinsic relationship between public perception in new media communication and IFLA award-winning cases of public libraries in China, this study identifies emerging trends such as high-quality development, social engagement, and digital-intelligent innovation. Furthermore, it proposes new media strategies for enhancing the international image of public libraries, including "beyond communication", "cross-sector integration", and "digitalintelligent empowerment."

Against the backdrop of advancing Chinese-style modernization and increasing urban competition, investigating the role and significance of public libraries in urban marketing has become a focal point for both the library circle. This paper reviews cases of public libraries participating in urban marketing across fifteen cities in China. Drawing on urban marketing theory, the cases are analyzed through three dimensions: marketing products, implementing entities, and communication channels. Based on this analysis, the paper offers strategic recommendations for public libraries participating in urban marketing, focusing on five key areas: clear positioning, product branding, diversified entities, precise targeting, and multidimensional communication.

With the rapid development of digital media technology, short video platforms, represented by Douyin, have become essential tools for public libraries to enhance their information dissemination capabilities and brand influence. They also play a central role in delivering online video-based reading services. This paper employs regression analysis and content analysis to conduct an empirical study on 592 short video samples posted over the past year by 10 provincial and municipal public libraries in Anhui Province on the Douyin platform. The results show that 8 factors, that is content theme, cover type, video length, number of hashtags, mention frequency, text structure, follower count, and update frequency, significantly impact the dissemination effectiveness of short videos, whereas video production type and background music have no significant effect. Based on these findings, the paper proposes optimization strategies, including aligning content selection with user needs to enhance engagement, integrating form and content to improve audiovisual reading experiences and emotional resonance, increasing video update frequency to strengthen interaction, and adopting a user-centered approach to enhance professional content development.

This paper interprets 57 global guiding documents related to open science, with a focus on analyzing aspects such as research subjects, chronological context, content framework, and continuity of policies. The paper summarizes several key insights, including: the need to formulate systematic policy guidance, establish sustainable investment confidence, develop targeted innovative technologies, ensure two-dimensional storage security, adopt updatable copyright licenses, customize multi-channel quality control, meet diverse needs, provide organized publicity and training, establish effective incentive mechanisms, and engage in wider international cooperation. These insights aim to provide a reference for exploring the development path of open science in China.

This study aims to clarify the current state and trends in the development of academic discourse, providing insights for future academic research and discipline construction. BERTopic was utilized to extract topics from Chinese and international LIS (Library and Information Science) abstracts. Based on this, the study analyzes topic trends, discourse in typical abstract texts, and compares the discursive environments between Chinese and international contexts. The research reveals a significant gap in the richness and diversity of discourse content, the openness of the discourse system, and the shaping of the discursive environment between Chinese and the international LIS community. While enhancing the trend of social demand-oriented and interdisciplinary development, the Chinese LIS field should proactively seek opportunities for discipline growth, fight for the right to influence academic discourse, and assert its initiative in shaping the discipline. By grounding these efforts in China's national context, the domestic LIS field should aim to establish an open discourse system, amplify Chinese voices, and cultivate a discursive environment with international impact.

This paper begins by examining the changes in scientific research information access under digital transformation and the development of Sci-Hub. It discusses the current state of academic publishing from three perspectives: the academic publishing model, copyright in the publishing industry, and the debate between open access and paid access. Furthermore, the article analyzes the impact of Sci-Hub on academic publishing from three dimensions: its direct impact on academic publishing, its indirect effects on researchers’ interests, and its long-term impact on scientific communication. Finally, the article offers suggestions in terms of policy guidance, academic self-regulation, and innovations in technology and services, with the goal of promoting the open sharing of scientific research while protecting intellectual property rights in academic publishing.

Against the backdrop of the digital revolution and China's rapidly aging society, information poverty has increasingly become a barrier preventing the elderly from integrating into the information society and benefiting from the digital age. Based on the capability approach, this paper constructs a "four-quadrant" model for the precise identification of information poverty among the elderly. By analyzing four types of information poverty among elderly individuals in Haiyuan Community, Kunming, the paper proposes four targeted governance strategies: (1) expanding information capabilities and leveraging the leadership role of "information leaders"; (2) stimulating information needs and enhancing independent information practices; (3) strengthening bottom-line assistance and ensuring basic information provision; (4) launching a "digital literacy" initiative to improve information capabilities. Additionally, the paper explores how public libraries, as information service institutions, can effectively enhance the information capabilities of the elderly.

Virtual academic communities are crucial for knowledge sharing, utilization, and innovation. The specialization and fragmentation of community communication content, along with the openness and autonomy of interactive forms, create an urgent need for a knowledge service model that aligns with the characteristics of knowledge flow in these communities. This is essential for enhancing knowledge utilization efficiency and fostering the growth of virtual communities. Based on the SECI model of knowledge management theory, this article proposes a progressive community knowledge service model tailored to users' needs at different stages of community knowledge evolution. Specifically, diverse interactions facilitate the diffusion of tacit knowledge, scenario presentations aid in the externalization of explicit knowledge, knowledge aggregation and disclosure lead to the fusion of explicit knowledge, and resource-demand mapping supports the internalization of tacit knowledge. A knowledge service strategy based on SECI theory for virtual academic communities is also proposed, focusing on: unleashing community vitality and enhancing user interactions; creating knowledge presentation scenarios and developing domain ontologies; achieving semantic-level knowledge aggregation and constructing multi-dimensional knowledge navigation; and accurately aligning user needs to promote value co-creation.

Innovation is a fundamental requirement of academic papers. Effectively and systematically presenting the innovative content of a paper can significantly reduce the time researchers spend searching for and filtering relevant literature. This paper first employs manual identification to analyze abstracts of papers proven to be highly innovative, marking innovative sentences and categorizing their types of innovation. Subsequently, machine learning models—including support vector machines, decision trees, and gradient boosting—are developed to automatically extract and classify the innovative content in academic papers. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed machine learning models perform well in extracting and categorizing innovative content, providing technical support for enhancing the efficiency of scientific research.

This paper is based on the design practices of space navigation systems in public libraries both in China and abroad. It first introduces typical cases of space navigation systems in the Seattle Public Library, Guangzhou Library, and the State Library of Victoria in Australia. Then, analyzes the design aspects of these systems in four areas: planning and design, functional layout, visual form, and image positioning. Finally, proposed design recommendations for public library space navigation systems.

This paper analyzes the new framework for intelligent recommendation services in digital libraries and the core components of intelligent recommendation systems in the context of human-AI interaction. A model for intelligent recommendation systems in digital libraries under human-AI interaction scenarios is proposed and applied to the library of a comprehensive university to validate its effectiveness. The optimization strategies for the intelligent recommendation system of digital libraries are discussed from three dimensions: interactive experience, intelligence level, and service scope. Context awareness and affective computing enhance the interactive experience of recommendation systems. Knowledge reasoning and cognitive augmentation improve the intelligence level of recommendation systems. Resource integration and ecosystem development expand the service scope of recommendation systems.

Reviewing the current practices in the construction of immovable cultural relics databases in China, this paper takes the immovable cultural relics database of Sucheng Library as a case study to introduce its development process and main contents and to discuss the exploring strategies for its potential value. The paper suggests establishing standardized regulations for the development and utilization of immovable cultural relics databases, enhancing digital application technologies, promoting unique resources through targeted publicity efforts, and developing cultural tourism routes based on the database’s distinctive resources.

On September 12, 2024, the "Empowering Cultural Inheritance with New Quality Productivity - 2024 Ancient Book Protection Seminar" was held at the 16th branch of the China Library Annual Conference. Experts and scholars have conducted in-depth discussions on the theoretical logic of empowering ancient book protection with new quality productivity, the logic of the relationship between old and new in ancient book protection, the revitalization and intelligent application of ancient books, and the empowerment of high-quality development of ancient books with new quality productivity. With a dual perspective of theory and practice, they jointly promote the high-quality development of ancient book protection.