This paper focuses on the practical dilemma faced by female librarians in public libraries, characterized by a high proportion of employment but low professional identity. Using a quantitative approach, the paper constructs a structural equation model based on 371 valid questionnaires to systematically analyze the mechanisms influencing professional identity within this group. The findings reveal a structural contradiction in professional identity, manifested as high professional behavior but low professional affect. Work-family conflict indirectly undermines professional identity through the dual mediating pathways of job burnout and job satisfaction. A bidirectional negative feedback loop exists between professional identity and turnover intention, mediated by job satisfaction. In addition, the satisfaction of safety needs and esteem needs exerts a significantly stronger driving effect on professional identity than the satisfaction of self-actualization needs. Based on these findings, the paper proposes targeted management recommendations, providing empirical evidence for enhancing the professional identity of female librarians and optimizing human resource management in public libraries.

Lowering the barriers to reading ancient books and promoting the creative transformation of fine traditional Chinese culture have become strategic priorities in the development of the public reading service system. Drawing on Collins’ Interaction Ritual Chain Theory as the core analytical framework, this paper takes the Zhejiang practice of the Traditional Chinese Book-Sunning Festival as a case study to systematically analyze the innovative mechanisms through which immersive narrative drives the public dissemination of ancient books. The paper finds that five-dimensional narratives are organically integrated into the four elements of the interaction ritual chain—bodily co-presence, shared focus of attention, shared emotional experience, and group symbols—jointly generating strong emotional energy. This process shifts audiences’ reading motivation from instrumental rationality toward emotional identification, transforms historic libraries into “sites of memory”, and activates ancient book resources from “stored memory” to “functional memory”. In response to practical challenges such as emphasizing display over reading, this paper proposes optimization pathways based on the generation and maintenance mechanisms of emotional energy, including transforming “spectatorial book appreciation” into “inquiry-based reading”, establishing a regular reading ecosystem, and deepening the accumulation of cultural value. These approaches provide theoretical references and practical insights for integrating the revitalization of ancient books with nationwide reading initiatives.

To improve the effectiveness of bibliotherapy services, this paper constructs a theoretical model for library bibliotherapy services based on Interaction Ritual Chain（IRC） theory, grounded in the intrinsic compatibility between bibliotherapy and IRC theory. Targeting individuals suffering from fatigue due to workplace involution, the paper conducts an exploratory empirical investigation through a four-week controlled comparative experiment, employing control experiments, variable control, and quantitative analysis methods. The empirical results demonstrate that the proposed model significantly outperforms traditional approaches in alleviating occupational burnout, enhancing emotional energy, and strengthening group identity. Therapeutic space, therapeutic literature, and therapeutic guidance methods are identified as key factors influencing emotional experience. Based on the findings, the paper proposes optimization strategies focusing on the expansion of therapeutic space dimensions, the improvement of selection mechanisms for therapeutic literature, and the standardization of therapeutic guidance methods.

The construction of an autonomous knowledge system for Chinese library science has become a major issue for our library community. Focusing on the knowledge system presented in library science textbooks over the past century, this paper first examines the five stages in the evolution of the autonomous knowledge system for Chinese library science: western introduction and indigenous inception; discipline reconstruction and theoretical consciousness; assimilation of western theories and systematic standardization;digital transformation and knowledge reconfiguration and independent construction and intelligent integration. Subsequently by examining the concept of “autonomy” embodied in each stage from the perspectives of knowledge writing and knowledge evaluation, the paper proposes accelerating the development of Chinese knowledge writing in library science textbooks.

Highly aligned with national health strategies, reading therapy is a form of psychological support that integrates preventive, therapeutic, and developmental functions. Public libraries, as important platforms for social emotional governance, urgently need to establish replicable reading therapy service systems. This paper takes the “Enjoy One Hour” program of Hangzhou Library as a case study and adopts a mixed-methods approach to systematically examine its service mechanisms, drawing on the PERMA model of positive psychology and collaborative governance theory. The paper proposes a three-dimensional mechanism chain of “theoretical empowerment, personalized services, collaborative governance”. The PERMA model provides a scientific framework and facilitates a value shift from “healing” to “educating”; a personalized program system enables targeted interventions; and a collaborative mechanism among “libraries, communities, and professional institutions” ensures the sustainability of services.The recommendations proposed in this paper, including advancing standardization, building resilient collaborative networks, and developing differentiated implementation pathways, provide a theoretical framework and practical paradigm for the transformation of public libraries into “supporters of emotional governance”.

Taking Sea Libraries in Yantian District, Shenzhen as a case, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of the brand-building practices of urban public reading spaces. Sea Libraries has established its brand identity through a toplevel design that integrates standardization with localization. It has built a brand content ecosystem centered on marine culture, technological innovation, and high-quality aesthetics, complemented by an integrated communication strategy, thereby forming a distinctive model for brand development. Based on the experience of this case, the paper proposes that the brand building of urban public reading spaces should focus on enhancing service efficiency through technology-driven innovation, improving service quality through deep local engagement, strengthening user engagement through emotional connection, and reinforcing sustainable development through resource integration.

From the perspective of users’ continuance intention, this paper explores the factors influencing the use of public library audiobook platforms in the context of digital intelligence, providing references for the transformation and improvement of audiobook services. Based on the Value-based Adoption Model (VAM) and the FLOW theory model, this paper constructs a research model of users’ continuance intention for public library audiobook platforms and proposes corresponding hypotheses. Taking Hangzhou as the sample area, data were collected through questionnaire surveys, and structural equation modeling was applied for empirical testing. The results show that perceived usefulness and social influence have significant positive effects on perceived value; perceived value, flow experience, and social influence all have significant positive effects on users’ continuance intention; perceived value partially mediates the relationship between social influence and continuance intention, and flow experience fully mediates the relationship between perceived value and continuance intention.

Against the backdrop of deepening the cultural tourism integration, red public cultural spaces urgently need to innovate their narrative design to respond to public demand and meet societal expectations for high-quality public cultural spaces. Based on an analysis of high-frequency words, sentiment tendencies, and semantic networks in online public reviews, the paper shows that public perceptions of New Fourth Army red public cultural spaces are generally positive; however, most experiences remain limited to sightseeing. The depth and breadth of immersive experiences still need to be enhanced, and the level of spiritual and emotional resonance requires further strengthening. In response to these practical needs and challenges, and drawing on the three-dimensional structural model of “cognition-emotion-integration”, this paper identifies key conditions for fostering public participation in immersive experiences within New Fourth Army red public cultural spaces： clear objectives and timely feedback mechanisms; immersive construction of spatial and emotional environments; and incentive-based designs that encourage interaction and participation.

In August 2025, the International Network for Advancing Science and Policy (INASP) released A Review of Open Access Policy Options for Development Research Funders. The report examines the implementation outcomes of open access policies among major international research funding organizations and provides an in-depth analysis of development trends in open access among research funders, the key elements of policy choices, and the corresponding assessment results. Through an interpretation of this report and in light of the current state of open access among China’s research funding organizations and the challenges they face, this paper proposes several recommendations: optimizing article processing charge (APC) funding strategies and fostering a diamond open access publishing ecosystem; improving mechanisms for recognizing preprints and promoting immediate open access to publicly funded research outputs; unifying the framework for Creative Commons licenses and proactively adapting it to AI application scenarios; and deepening equitable international cooperation to promote the interconnectivity of open access infrastructure.

In response to the practical demand for the living transmission of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), librarybased ICH preservation and transmission efforts are often constrained by the traditional document-centered model, leading to the dilemma of “textual isolation” caused by the detachment of resources from their original contexts. Drawing on the perspective of event philosophy and starting from the theoretical premise of the “event-based existence” of ICH, this paper proposes an “event center”-oriented practical framework for the living transmission of ICH in libraries. Using “event units” as the organizational core, the framework is constructed from three dimensions: generativity, relationality, and meaning construction. Taking the “Dunhuang Music and Dance: Silk Road Art Exhibition Hall” project at the Library of the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music as a case study, the paper examines the specific application of this framework in the organization and presentation of Silk Road music and dance resources, thereby verifying the practical feasibility of the “event center” framework. The paper shows that this framework helps alleviate the interpretive dilemmas arising from the decontextualization of ICH resources and demonstrates a certain degree of transferability to library practices involving other forms of ICH. It provides practical references for university libraries, especially specialized libraries, in participating in the living transmission of ICH.

To address the issues of the disconnection between collection and utilization and fragmented narratives in the activation of red literature in libraries, this paper introduces cross-media narrative theory and constructs an activation model centered on the library as a “narrative hub”. The model enables in-depth content interpretation through storyworld construction, builds an all-media communication matrix through coordinated multi-platform storytelling, and fosters user co-creation through the cultivation of a participatory ecosystem. In doing so, it systematically transforms static documents into a dynamic and sustainable narrative ecosystem. This paper provides a new theoretical framework and practical pathways for the creative transformation and innovative development of red literature in libraries.

The rapid development of artificial intelligence generated content （AIGC） has brought new approaches to reading promotion in libraries. Addressing limitations in the promotion of foreign literary classics, such as language barriers and cognitive thresholds, this paper examines the theoretical logic of AIGC-enabled reading promotion. Specifically, AIGC makes it possible to achieve granular deconstruction and value reconstruction of literary texts, reduce the cognitive load of cross-cultural reading, and enhance reading immersion through multimodal script generation. Taking the “Harry Potter English mini-theater” series of themed activities organized by Shanxi Library as a practical case, the paper analyzes a three-stage pathway of “value anchoring, textual reconstruction and scenario encapsulation”. Through this approach, deep reading services for foreign literary classics were effectively implemented and achieved positive outcomes. The case provides a practical reference for applying AIGC to deep reading services for foreign literary classics in libraries.

Against the backdrop of the Digital China initiative and the market-oriented reform of data element allocation, ancient books are being transformed from traditional documentary resources into data elements with substantial development potential. The participation of social forces in the construction of ancient book data elements in libraries is not only a practical choice for alleviating public financial pressure and introducing advanced technologies, but also an inevitable pathway for promoting the creative transformation of fine traditional Chinese culture. On the basis of systematically identifying the major issues currently existing in social participation, including motivation mechanisms, the alignment of professional capabilities, the unification of data standards, and value co-creation, this paper proposes a systematic optimization framework from five dimensions: enhancing institutional recognition, establishing a full lifecycle quality control mechanism, promoting data sharing and cross-entity collaboration, innovating crowdsourcing and community mechanisms, and strengthening security and ethical governance.

This paper adopts literature review and case study analysis methods to examine representative training programs for children’s reading promoters in China, summarizing their characteristics and typologies and conducting a comparative analysis across different categories. The findings reveal several key challenges in the current training system, including fragmented professional qualification certification standards, a lack of standardized baseline curriculum frameworks, weak training in reading assessment and intervention skills, a disconnect between pre-service education and in-service training, unclear professional identity positioning and incentive mechanisms, as well as insufficient resource coordination efficiency and imbalanced regional distribution. Drawing on international best pratices and domestic realities, this paper proposes several recommendations, such as establishing a national professional qualification certification system, developing and promoting a standardized core curriculum framework, strengthening multistakeholder collaborative training mechanisms and resource integration, advancing professional education and interdisciplinary integration, and enhancing exchange and cooperation with international professional organizations. These measures aim to promote the development of children’s reading promoter training programs in China toward greater professionalism, standardization, and sustainability.

Rural reading is an important means of promoting rural cultural revitalization and enhancing the spiritual outlook of rural residents. Based on field investigations conducted across 19 townships and 32 administrative villages in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, this paper finds that the supply side is characterized by structural imbalances, while the demand side is constrained by both internal poverty and external constraints. These issues are specifically manifested in the underutilization of reading spaces, the disconnect between collections and readers’ needs, discontinuities in service provision, and the digital divide. In response, the paper develops a precision service framework centered on user-demand profiling and proposes optimization strategies from four dimensions: space, resources, personnel, and time. Specifically, it suggests revitalizing rural reading rooms and optimizing new types of reading spaces; establishing differentiated collection development mechanisms and expanding diversified, integrated reading resources; cultivating reading promotion teams that combine institutional support with endogenous development, while establishing long-term mechanisms that integrate spiritual incentives with resource preference; and optimizing mobile services through fixedtime and fixed-location delivery, creating reading fairs embedded within everyday rural life scenarios.

Taking the “Childhood Archives” project at Shanghai Children’s Library as a case, this paper adopts the case study method to analyze the design logic and practical pathways of in-depth service projects in children’s libraries. By transforming circulation spaces into narrative spaces, extending one-time activities into long-term follow-up visits, and shifting service recipients into co-creators, the project establishes a three-dimensional design logic. Correspondingly, its practical pathways consist of three mutually reinforcing dimensions: content balance, role division, and image compliance, which respectively ensure the authentic generation of archival content, the joint construction by families, and the secure preservation of visual records. Such “small-scale but in-depth” projects can serve as a structural supplement to conventional children’s reading services and require sustainable mechanisms in terms of space, capabilities, compliance, and evaluation.

In recent years, the activation and utilization of ancient book resources in China have been advanced through multidimensional and innovative practices, promoting the transition of these materials from “hidden shelves” to the public’s daily life. These developments have also fostered innovative operational models in the library sector that integrate ancient book resources with technology and cultural tourism. This paper reviews four integrated innovation models adopted by public libraries—“ancient books + physical space”, “ancient books + study-tour services”, “ancient books + cultural and creative IP”, and “ancient books + integrated media communication” —and examines the current state of related research and practice. Through an in-depth analysis of the Hunan Celebrities in Classics at Hunan Library, a project innovatively disseminates cultural and tourism resources related to Hunan historical figures, the paper proposes optimized pathways for the activation and utilization of ancient book resources in public libraries, with the aim of providing reference for future practice in this field.

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions （IFLA）Strategy 2024-2029 marks a shift in the global library sector from capacity building toward impact-oriented development, emphasizing that libraries should actively participate in shaping a sustainable future. Drawing on the core principles of this strategy, this paper examines the institutional constraints currently faced by Chinese university libraries, including administrative subordination, short-term resource allocation, and the absence of performance evaluation mechanisms, which have resulted in the marginalization of their strategic roles, the invisibility of service contributions, and weakened interuniversity collaboration. In response, the paper proposes four strategic implications and three institutional safeguard measures aimed at enabling university libraries to move beyond their traditional auxiliary role in teaching support and become fully integrated into the academic innovation system. The paper seeks to provide forward-looking insights for the high-quality development of university libraries during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.

To optimize the layout of library collections and minimize the frequency of future stack space adjustments, this paper constructs a quantitative control model for stack space allocation, with “collection growth rate”, “per-shelf capacity”, and “thresholds” as core elements. It explores dynamic regulation methods combining precise shelving, refined shelving, and threshold control, enabling on-demand classification to any level of the classification hierarchy. This approach not only meets the shelving space requirements for newly acquired books but also ensures the stability of the overall collection layout, thereby supporting the sustainable use of stack space.The model has been applied in the stack space adjustment practice of sample stacks at Nanjing University Library. In conjunction with management theories, visualized shelf markers were created and pasted to enable synchronized control across different shelf areas, significantly improving operational efficiency and achieving scientific and refined management of stack space.

Contemporary overseas China studies literature contains rich intellectual content and significant policy advisory value. There is an urgent need in China to continuously track such knowledge in order to better harness its potential to support government decision-making. This paper begins by examining the characteristics of contemporary overseas China studies and China studies literature, and analyzes the policy advisory value of contemporary overseas China studies literature and the ways in which this value can be realized. From the two dimensions of tracking overseas developments related to China and research on overseas developments related to China, the paper identifies eight pathways for transforming contemporary overseas China studies literature into policy advisory products, and illustrates these pathways through practical cases from libraries, think tanks, and universities in China. Finally, the paper argues that future services for contemporary overseas China studies literature should evolve from fragmented practices toward systematic capacity building in order to more precisely address the core needs of national strategic decision-making.

With university libraries rapidly transforming from repositories of documentary resources into platforms for learning support and academic exchange, disciplinary libraries, which are closely coupled with academic departments, majors, and institutional strengths, have increasingly assumed the important carrier of explicitly expressing disciplinary culture. By combining literature research and comparative case analysis, this paper summarizes six dimensions of the explicit representation of disciplinary culture. Based on an analysis of the practical challenges in the spatial layout of university disciplinary libraries and observations drawn from representative cases, it identifies five pathways such as promoting the reorganization of spatial zoning based on disciplinary knowledge genealogies, enhancing the visibility of disciplinary culture through the node-based presentation of distinctive resources, improving the effectiveness of spatial behaviors through the chain-based organization of the “collection-reading-research-application” process, coordinating discipline-oriented narrative signage systems with specialized service interfaces, and facilitating the dynamic iteration of spatial layouts through usage evidence. The paper further proposes corresponding support mechanisms, including librarydepartment collaboration, resource and funding allocation, role-based collaboration, and operational evaluation, with a view to providing references for the spatial renewal and disciplinary distinctive development of university libraries.

Against the backdrop of the in-depth advancement of the national cultural digitization strategy, the construction of local digital memory is confronted with collaborative governance challenges such as fragmented resource ownership, prominent copyright barriers, and the absence of technical standards. Taking the leading role of libraries as the point of departure and drawing on collaborative governance theory, this paper systematically analyzes the role positioning and interactive relationships among multiple stakeholders involved in the construction of local digital memory, and reveals the underlying logic of libraries’ leadership within collaborative networks. The findings show that library leadership does not rely on administrative command-style authority; rather, libraries function as hubs for resource integration and collaborative networks based on metadata governance, public-service attributes, and composite spatial functions. On this basis, the paper constructs a collaborative mechanism framework encompassing four dimensions: alignment of rights and responsibilities, technical interoperability, benefit sharing, and immersive narrative. It further proposes practical approaches under library leadership, including the development of standardized metadata systems, lightweight toolchains, and public participation platforms. The study aims to provide a reusable collaborative model for library-led digital preservation and inheritance of regional culture, thereby offering theoretical references and practical support for the implementation of the national cultural digitization strategy.

The journals of local library associations published during the Republic of China period（1912-1949） provide an important window into the development of local libraries. Based on an extensive collection of these journals from across China, this paper systematically examines their publishing purposes, content, authorship, and publication status through content classification, author distribution analysis, and qualitative textual analysis. It reveals their functional role and historical significance in the development of libraries during the Republic of China period. The paper finds that most local library association journals were characterized by irregular publication schedules, short publication spans, and limited influence. Their content gave roughly equal emphasis to professional research, association affairs, and members’ news. The authors were predominantly core members of the associations, exhibiting clear organizational affiliation and regional characteristics. The paper argues that these journals played an important role in regional networking, the exchange of professional experience, and the documentation of library development during the Republic of China period. They provide a local perspective for understanding the broader historical narrative of library development and are of considerable value for enriching research on the history of modern Chinese libraries and re-evaluating the significance of contemporary internal publications of professional organizations.

This paper addresses the challenges of semantic fragmentation in special collection person archives during digital transformation and the risk of “hallucinations” caused by generative AI. It explores a deep aggregation paradigm that transforms linear texts into multidimensional knowledge scenarios. Taking the digital humanities project Chronicle of Soong Ching-ling as an empirical case, this paper proposes an evidence-based knowledge computing framework consisting of “semantic decomposition, spatiotemporal reorganization, and relational enhancement”. By applying Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) and knowledge graph technologies, the framework enables the quantitative transformation and interconnection of spatiotemporal elements. Furthermore, GraphRAG technology is integrated to construct multimodal interactive service scenarios encompassing dynamic spatiotemporal narratives, evolutionary social networks, and evidence-based intelligent question answering. Case validation demonstrates that visualization-based historical knowledge discovery can effectively reveal historical patterns underlying fragmented records and achieve a rigorous interaction model of “generation with traceability”.

To address the problems of technological instrumentalization, fragmented instruction, and value ambiguity in current information literacy education practices, this paper introduces the DNA double helix structure from molecular biology to construct a dynamic, mutually constitutive Information Literacy Double Helix Model. The model establishes the technological environment strand and the literacy development strand as two intertwined, co-evolving strands, while using specific teaching scenarios as the teaching base pairs that connect them. In doing so, it reveals the mutually reinforcing, spiral relationship between technological empowerment and literacy development. As the base pairs serve as the key connection points supporting the coordinated evolution of the two strands, the creation of high-quality teaching base pairs constitutes the core through which university libraries realize the educational value of the model. Accordingly, this paper proposes a design pathway for teaching base pairs comprising four stages—“gap anchoring, coupling design, contextual embedding, and evidence-based evaluation”—and validates its effectiveness through a case.

To defend against Wokou pirates, the Ming court established Sanjiangsuo at the Sanjiang estuary in Shaoxing. Sanjiangsuo left a profound historical imprint on the local area. After the abolition of the Wei-Suo military system in the early Qing Dynasty, local literati and gentry spontaneously compiled the Sanjiangsuo Zhi following the stylistic conventions of prefectural and county gazetteers, in order to affirm its identity as a distinct geographical unit. The Sanjiangsuo Zhi was first compiled during the Kangxi reign, supplemented during the Qianlong reign, and finalized during the Guangxu reign. It was produced over more than two centuries through the contributions of multiple compilers, preserving rich historical and geographical information on the Sanjiang estuary. The work was never independently printed, and the manuscript version has been lost; however, manuscript copies and lead-type editions still survive. This paper introduces the institutional evolution of Sanjiangsuo and discusses the compilation history, textual transmission, structure, content, and documentary value of the Sanjiangsuo Zhi.

Yuan Tongli’s collection and organization of red literature constituted a consistent and lifelong scholarly pursuit. In his youth, he engaged in documentary exchanges with figures such as Li Dazhao and Zhang Shenfu, and expressed sympathy for and support of the revolutionary movement. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yuan Tongli, representing the National Peking Library, collaborated with the National Southwest Associated University to establish the “Committee for the Collection of Historical Materials on the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression”. He devoted himself to locating and collecting red literature. This represented a form of cultural War of Resistance jointly undertaken by Yuan Tongli and scholars of the National Southwest Associated University, reflecting their profound sense of national responsibility and patriotic commitment. In his later years, while compiling bibliographies such as China in Western Literature, Yuan Tongli sought to include representative works related to both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China as comprehensively as possible, thereby advocating a scholarly approach characterized by seeking truth from facts, inclusiveness, and openness.

AI literacy education provided by public libraries is of great significance in bridging the digital divide and promoting knowledge equity. Drawing on structural hole theory as the analytical framework, this paper examines the bridging role of public libraries in AI literacy education from three dimensions: actors, content, and process. It further constructs a five-stage bridging mechanism encompassing needs diagnosis, content design, activity implementation, outcome consolidation, and effectiveness evaluation. From the perspectives of building knowledge transformation pipelines, establishing platforms for cognitive dialogue and social interaction, and integrating resource attraction with operational coordination, the paper reveals how this mechanism facilitates cross-domain knowledge flow. Taking the AI literacy education initiatives of Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province as a case study, the research verifies the practical effectiveness of the proposed bridging mechanism and identifies areas for improvement, particularly in the precision of needs diagnosis and the development of closed-loop evaluation and feedback systems. It argues that public libraries should strengthen structurally collaborative networks and adopt strategic structural-hole bridging practices to promote the deepening and systematization of AI literacy education, thereby advancing knowledge equity and inclusive social development.

Digital intelligence transformation is driving public libraries to upgrade their service content from digital documents to knowledge semantics, optimize their service processes from universal and equitable services to precise and immersive services, and shift their operational management from experience-driven to data-driven approaches. At the same time, it places new demands on the protection of readers’ rights to personal information, algorithmic rights, and equitable access to digital resources. During the digital intelligence transformation of public libraries, data governance and the intellectual property system pose a dual challenge to readers’ rights, giving rise to issues such as privacy erosion, the digital divide, information cocoons, and restrictions arising from copyright protection. To address these challenges, while adhering to the legislative purpose of the Public Library Law, public libraries should standardize data governance by formulating dedicated rules for reader data processing, strengthening technical safeguards, and improving mechanisms for algorithmic oversight; balance intellectual property protection with public knowledge services through legal interpretation, legislative refinement, and institutional innovation; and improve the rights protection system by establishing third-party oversight and certification mechanisms, collaborative governance models, and procuratorial public interest litigation. These measures will help establish a comprehensive, multidimensional legal framework for protecting readers’ rights and enable public libraries to better fulfill their public cultural service functions in the digital intelligence era.

Effectively advancing rural information poverty alleviation is an important measure for deepening the Digital China strategy and achieving the goal of common prosperity. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory, Personal Information World Theory, and second-order observation, this paper proposes an analytical framework of the observer information field. Using villages and townships in Zhejiang and Shaanxi provinces as comparative cases, it systematically examines the mechanisms and pathways of rural information poverty alleviation under the goal of common prosperity. The paper finds that diverse actors, including government departments, village-level organizations, market entities, and local rural elites, have developed differentiated pathways for rural information poverty alleviation—such as public-led, governancecoordinated, and industry-embedded models—through network building, resource translation, and structural reshaping. Information resources exhibit uneven characteristics in terms of node distribution, value density, and individual information absorption capacity. Rural information poverty alleviation should promote a transition from basic information access to effective information empowerment, from single-actor provision to collaborative multi-actor governance, and from universal coverage to targeted, tiered support, thereby enhancing information accessibility, comprehension, and transformation capabilities, as well as development resilience among vulnerable rural groups.