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includes textbooks,historical records and reference books such as yearbook,statistics
data,bibliography,etc. Among these materials,textbooks have crucial importance of popularizing
research output and cultivating scholars in this field. Historical records and reference books also
provide convenience for scholars in this field. For research organization,the Japan Association
of Library History,a specialized organization for library history study,was established in 1982
and renamed the Japan Association of Library and Information History in 1995. By hosting the
professional meetings and issuing journals,the association promotes the communication of library
history research and the academic criticism in this field. For research field,Japanese scholars are
good at absorbing the related foreign achievements just as they used to do with the foreign cultures.
Apart from library history in Japan,Japanese scholars also studied the library history in China,the
United States,Germany,England and Russia. They have translated many books on foreign library
history into Japanese,and have become the experts in that field,such as Hiromichi Matsumi for
Chinese library history,Yoshitaka Kawasaki for American library history,and Hiroshi Kawai for
German library history.
The achievements of library history studies in Japan are very abundant and only a few impressive
aspects have been summarized in this article. The achievements and the characteristics of library
history studies in Japan need to be studied further.

Understanding the continuance intention of social reading apps by college
students
①a *
LI Wu & ZHAO Xing
With the development of digital texts and social media,social reading featuring interactivity
and sharing is becoming more and more popular with users especially young people,and the
online app is the main tool used by them to carry out this kind of new digital reading activity.
To understand the nature of social reading,and improve the users’ retention rate and loyalty,the
study constructed a conceptual model to explore users’ continuance intention of social reading
apps and its mechanism based on Expectation Confirmation Model of Information Systems
Continuance (ECM). ECM is one of the earliest theoretical models of Information Systems (IS)
continuance,which distinguishes the substantive differences between acceptance and continuance
behavior,and integrates confirmation and user satisfaction constructs within our understanding of
IS use.
The target population of this study is college students using social reading apps. A questionnaire
survey approach and structural equation modeling were adopted to investigate the hypothesized
relationships and to assess the fitness of the model. Based on the data analysis of 508 valid
questionnaires,the results suggest that 1) college students’ continuance intention is determined by
* Correspondence should be addressed to LI Wu,Email:lowie@sina.com,ORCID:0000-0002-1633-2363