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Re-discussion of ten hot topics in the development of

librarianship

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WU Jianzhong〇
Shanghai Library, Shanghai 200031, China

Abstract
In 2002 the author published Ten Hot Issues in the Development of Chinese Librarianship in the
Journal of Library Science in China. Over the past 15 years, the dramatic changes in social,economic
and technical environments have had a great impact on the development of librarianship. Based on the
comprehensive consideration of environmental changes as well as transformation and development, this
paper aims at making an overview of hot topics about development of librarianship and concludes ten
hot topics: the library and social development, literacies, space reconstruction, artificial intelligence,
digital humanities, open access movement, public digital culture and targeted poverty alleviation,
library reforms, the third-generation library, the Belt and Road Initiatives and the internationalization of
libraries.

Keywords
Librarianship, Library transition, Digital library

In 2002 the author published Ten Hot Issues in the Development of Chinese Librarianship
in the Journal of Library Science in China. Over the past 15 years, the dramatic changes in
social,economic and technical environments have had a great impact on the development of
librarianship. Based on the comprehensive consideration of environmental changes as well as
transformation and development, this paper aims at making an overview of hot topics about the
development of librarianship and concludes ten hot topics: the library and social development,
literacies, space reconstruction, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, open access movement,
public digital culture and targeted poverty alleviation, library reforms, the third-generation library,
the Belt and Road Initiatives and the internationalization of libraries. The aforementioned are only
my opinions. Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.

1 Library and social development

The library is an archival organization which gives priority to collection and makes little
contact with society. Statistics show that self-cited rate and self-citing rate in Library Science,
Information Science and Archival Science are the highest in humanities, 92.53% and 84.64%

* Correspondence should be addressed to WU Jianzhong,Email:jzwu@libnet.sh.cn,ORCID:0000-0003-2102-985X