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principles and laws, technical theoretical knowledge, and management service theoretical
knowledge. Each module contains all kinds of thoughts and ideas derived from the research of
e-government problems.
The framework of e-government body of knowledge is formed on the basis of a certain level
of theory abstraction and generalization after multidisciplinary approach focus on the research
of fundamental theory and practical application problems in e-government. People can grasp the
internal relations of various attributes and relationship in e-government with the framework of
body of knowledge, and further examine the status and effect of the current e-government research.
Meanwhile the framework can have certain guidance and reference for the practice of e-government.

University librarians’ psychological capital: Definition, measurement and
validity

Fang WANG & Hui ZHANG 1 ∗

Psychological capital is a positive psychological abilities combination. The combination includes a
series of POB (positive organizational behavior) that staff should own and it brings positive influence
to staff working performance. Nowadays new information technology is has applied faster and faster
and trans-industrial competitions are more and more serious. Under this situation, university libraries
are facing unprecedented challenges ever. University librarians are direct provider of information
service and core power that manages university libraries’ three main sources. Thus to utmost
inspire university librarians’ subjective initiatives is the key to keeping sustainable development
for university libraries. However, academia is not putting sufficient care on university librarians’
psychological capital. What detailed contents that university librarians’ psychological capital should
cover and how to measure are all questions should be solved. This study is aimed at discovering the
intension, structure and effectiveness of university librarians’ psychological capital.
This paper is written on the basis of one-to-one interviews from 25 different university
librarians of 23 universities. This study induces the content and structure of university librarians
psychological capital, explores initial project pool of university librarians psychological capital.
This study is based on 211 questionnaires from 8 universities. This study analyzes and finds that
university librarians capital includes eight dimensions: confidence, hope, toughness, modesty,
optimism, ambition, honor and devotion. This conclusion is made through exploratory factor
analyzing revealing university librarians psychological capital structure. Afterwards we collect 695
effective questionnaires from 26 universities’ librarians and carry out proving factor analyzing.
The analysis result proves that the 8 dimensions structure of university librarians psychological
capital possesses ideal converging validity and distinguishing validity, and university librarians

* Correspondence should be addressed to Hui ZHANG, Email: nkzhanghui@163.com