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resources are surpassing tangible resources, including library architecture, hardware facilities and
information resources, and have become the core competitiveness of library service development.
Continuous innovation has become a requirement of the age.
(1) The innovation of system. System is a rule that regulates the behavior of a person or an
organization, including formal rules and informal rules (Jiang, 2010). Library system is the key
power to promote the development of culture and civilization (Jiang, 2005). For the library, the
advanced humanistic idea needs a kind of compulsory restriction, which can be put into practice in
a larger space and a longer time (Han, 2011). Therefore, the system should also keep up with the
development of society and the progress of human civilization. The key to library transformation
development is system innovation, including library financing system innovation, library and social
synergy governance mechanism innovation, library service system innovation, and so on.
(2) Innovation of operation types. The goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all
respects requires libraries to innovate continuously to meet the needs of the social development
and different users, and to make corresponding combination of factors to form a certain operation
pattern (Chen & Wu, 2007). Due to the richness of constructing a moderately prosperous society
library services should present a variety of service status. At present, libraries should vigorously
promote the digital services, remote services, and alliance services, integration services with
business processes of government, business, education, health care, culture and other new
operation types.
(3) Innovation of management. The libraries is defined as “non-profit organizations registered in
accordance with law” in Library Law (Draft for Comment) (Legislative Affairs Office of the State
Council of the People’s Republic of China, 2015), which will bring new opportunities to library
management mechanism innovation. As a concept paying attention to play government function
and social groups cooperation, governance proves to have good utility. It calls on individuals
and organizations, public and private sectors to synthesize various kinds of methods to manage
common affairs (Commission on Global Governance, 1995). Adopting collaborative management
mode is an inevitable choice to improve the performance of library management. Library
management involves actions in many departments, systems, organizations and individuals, multi-
subject Library Board mode could be used to realize management innovation. Libraries also need
to coordinate effectively with other actions, such as collaborating with “Internet Plus” to provide
business support services, collaborate with national big data strategy to promote data driven mass
entrepreneurship and innovation, and continue to cultivate new growth point of library business.

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