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through traditional focus on circulation, but also advances contact between libraries, users,
community and society. In the open access demands will be discovered and fulfilled. However,
space reconstruction is tough work without any mature sample. In 2016 many provinces and cities
such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Kunming, Shenzhen, Yiwu held seminars on Maker Space, of which
those held in Peking University and Guangzhou Library were most influential. From November
14 to 19, 2016 the National Library of China and Library Science Basic Theory Specialized
Committee (Research Committee of the China Society for Library Science) held Library Maker
Seminar with Open New Future as its theme. In the seminar, librarians at home and abroad made a
thorough discussion. Participants believed: libraries should be the place for study, for community
activities, for discovery and for civil participation; libraries should encourage communication
and cooperation to make Maker Space the place to realize ideas; libraries should move towards
society and provide programs and services to promote community communication and improve
community relationships, such as holding workshop, book festival, Maker festival and lectures,
etc. (J.Z. Zhang, Qian, M.Z. Wang, & Dedema, 2017). Irrespective of size, libraries can make full
use of space to strengthen communication. For example, in 2016 fifteen small U.S. public libraries
were selected to participate in the “Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces” project led by OCLC
in partnership with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries (Murphy, 2016). Most of the
libraries served communities about 1,000 people. Besides, at the beginning of 2017 the Library
of Jinan University completed the building of “Intelligence Space” which is divided into multiple
areas according to functions (Xiao, 2017). In recent years, book shops, picture book gallery and
libraries’ public reading space have become a basic form of public cultural service systems. In
Dongguan, Zhangjiagang, Jiangyin, and Wuhan reading space in various forms have been built
which are called “public reading space” and praised as “important cultural force” by Wang Zizhou
(2017).
Libraries have kept abreast with the development of modern society. Social demands on libraries
must be responded. So it is the Maker who requires handcraft and creative literacies. Therefore,
many libraries establish Maker Space which provides not only opportunities of work but also
opportunities of communication. Maker Space belongs to space reconstruction. Maker Space is
only a form, whereas space is the key. In the future space will have more various forms.

4 Artificial intelligence

After machine, electronic and computer revolutions, we are embracing the fourth industrial
revolution led by artificial intelligence which focuses on data and aims at man-computer symbiosis.
Both of the Opinions of the State Council on Advancing Internet plus Initiative (July, 2015) and
the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan (March, 2016) proposed the development of artificial intelligence.
Report on the Work of the Government 2017 put artificial intelligence into agenda for the first
time. Therefore, 2017 can be considered the year of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is