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resources and users. Organization dimension reflects assessment levels, including macro, meso
and micro these three levels, in other words, national, regional/sector, basic levels. User dimension
reflects the value of the assessment, which is “all people centric”. According to people’s
occupation (e.g. farmers, soldiers, businessmen, etc), age (e.g. Children, teenagers, middle-aged,
elderly, etc) and ability (e.g. regular needs groups, special needs groups, etc), readers should
be subdivided into groups for targeted assessments. Resource dimension reflects the content of
national reading assessment, covering the production, transfer and use for all kinds of reading
materials.
According to the organization level, the subjects of evaluation include national managers, local
managers, departmental managers and first-line managers. They are responsible respectively for
the investigation and assessment of the national level, regional level, sector level and basic level.
Based on the resource dimension, the objects of evaluation include three aspects which are the
production, transfer and use of reading resources. Standards should be developed to check the
qualities of books, to assess scale and effect of book fair/exposition or reading activities, to guide
the construction of public and profitable cultural facilities, to investigate all people’s cultural level
and their individual needs. Referring to the user dimension, the needs of cultural diversity should
be met.
In order to promote the assessment work, firstly statistical mechanisms to collect, store and
manage data should be established; the data should be open free for using, modifying, and sharing.
Secondly, feedback mechanisms should be developed to collect people’s advices and suggestions,
for improving and completing the standards and assessment of “National reading”. At last, the
assessment work should be seen as a part of cultural development and the results should be used as
indicator for the performance evaluation of corresponding institutions.
This paper is an exploratory research of building multi-dimensional assessment system by top-
level design on basis of summarizing existing relevant standards. It could make the assessment
work more coordinated and consistent than before. In addition, it could systematize the
construction and management of the project. Furthermore, it could provide support and guarantee
for the cultural development of China. Due to the exploratory nature of this study, practical value
remains to be tested.

Japanese public library reform during U.S. occupation from 1945 to 1952

Lei CAO 1 ∗

During American occupation of Japan from 1945-1952, GHQ/SCAP carried out a comprehensive
social reform in Japan to eliminate militarism. In the reorientation and reeducation policy, the

* Correspondence should be addressed to Lei CAO, Email: caolei@pku.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0001-9674-2823