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patrons assistance in completing online government forms (ALA, 2015). Libraries could also
consider cooperation with relevant agencies to carry out such public information services.
(3) Developing unique library services. Forming characteristic is one of the ways of library
transformation development. The Fashion Library in Shenzhen Library specifically provide
costume design, production and sales information for readers. Now it possesses 600 domestic
and foreign clothing boutique books, nearly 200 kinds of apparel journals worldwide and nearly a
hundred kinds of video documents on clothing designers’ works, clothing festival performances,
and clothing productions. In addition, each year the library also holds clothing industry related
activities like seminars, salons for members, publishes newsletter to provide the timeliest
information, and they are ready for holding some design salons, fashion show, conferences and
so on when the conditions are ripe. Aiming at special industries and special objects, libraries use
special resources to build brand services, for example, to build economic zone alliance, “Internet
Plus” alliance based on the services for One Belt And One Road, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region
collaborative development and Yangtze River Economic Zone. In 2015, The Shanghai Library
opened the full text of genealogy on the Internet (Yan & Cao, 2015), the digitization of ancient
books in the Tibet library is also very unique.
(4) Coordinating the development of regional libraries. Many cities in our country have carried
out very good practice in regional libraries. For example, Library City construction in Shenzhen
has integrated the city’s public library service system and resources. The reader could visit any
public library in the city, and enjoy the reading, borrowing and returning, looking up digital
resources services, as long as owning a reader’s card of Library City. Similarly, there are different
kinds of main-branch library systems in Suzhou, Hangzhou and Guangzhou. In November 2015,
public libraries in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei formed Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Library Consortia,
and they reached a depth of cooperation intention on the issues of building a resource construction
and sharing platform, a collaborative reference and consultation platform, a professional talent
cultivation platform, a cherished giveaway services platform, a public cultural demonstration area
construction platform, a Winter Olympic Games subject service platform. Readers will be able to
read in public libraries of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei in the future, as long as having “one card”
(Wang, 2015). Obviously, library regional cooperation will further improve the efficiency of library
services.

4.3 Improvement for people’s wellbeing

The goal of building comprehensively a moderately prosperous society in all respects is to achieve
a general improvement in people’s living standards and quality, a higher rate of employment, and a
sound public service system of education, culture, social security, medical care, housing and so on.
As public service organizations, libraries should get involved in government actions, be embedded