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real-time behavior in e-book usage. These behavior records should be incorporated into the
consortium PDA unified management platform.
The idea of PDA was introduced to China in 2011. There are numerous discussions about the
best PDA cases abroad,but there has not been any PDA pilot launched in China. It is suggested to
library consortia that a PDA pilot project of e-books in foreign languages be launched as soon as
possible. The project will then expand to include e-books in Chinese through collaboration with
e-book publishers in China. In the process,much attention should be paid to address key issues
in Chinese library consortium PDA. The goal is to eventually develop a new pattern of library
consortium PDA with Chinese characteristics.

Research on the legalization of public information services
ZHOU Yi ①a *

Legalization of public information services is an important guarantee for continuous
improvement and deepening reform in public information services in China. Currently,China
lacks relevant laws,specific rules,institutional arrangement and guarantee measures for public
information services,leading to the problems of delay,inaccuracy,inaction,and uselessness
in public information services. Moreover,imbalance of system design in some specific
fields,excessively microcosmic research perspective,and relative ignorance of value-added
information services cause many disadvantages in the improvement and reform of public
information services. Therefore,there is a need to adopt a macro perspective,to reconsider
issues of public information services in accordance with the idea of “the rule of law”,which
will become the requirement for promotion of reform and development of public information
services,construction of the rule-of-law government and protection of public information rights.
This paper presents an investigation of current issues existing in the legalization of public
information services from three aspects: the idea of legalization,the legislation basis,and the
guarantee mechanism. From the idea of legalization aspects,it finds out that there are problems
of obscureness of government responsibility,lack of scientific system,deficiency in emphasizing
citizen’s right to know and short of intensity of enforcement. From the regime of operating
aspects,problems of deficiency in systematic design,uncomprehensive coverage,severe
segmentation,and obvious lag of legal system are identified. From the mechanism of ensuring
aspect,problems are found out on obscureness of service demand perception,limitation of service
provision,differentiation of service quality and limitation of remedy measures. Moreover,this
paper also discusses the content and basic approach of reinforcement of the idea of legalization,the
construction of the legal system,and the implementation mechanisms. The idea of legalization

* Correspondence should be addressed to ZHOU Yi,Email:zhouy@suda.edu.cn,ORCID:0000-0002-3007-1331