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this purpose, some measures should be taken: establishing a joint conference system initiated
by local governments on the basis of the top design and continuous coordination of each related
government departments, making a series of matching rules and regulations by the way of annual
negotiation meeting, leading and coordinating different departments jointly to promote the further
development of the corporate governance of the public cultural institutions through making
supportive policies.
In particular, local Party committee and government should play a key role in the joint
conference system, and local superior department should be responsible for the implementation of
the board of trustees of public libraries, such as drawing up “library charter”, guiding, inspecting
and so on. At the same time, each local related government department, including the development
and reform commission, government financial department, the human resources and social
security department, local commission office of public sectors reform and so on, should coordinate
with each other, give full play to the management with the librarian as the core. we should extend
and achieve the independent legal status of public libraries by the management elected with
the librarian’s participation, adjust internal library divisions independently, post delimitation
independently on affairs and requirements, and carry out the post performance wage system, etc.
3) Promoting the co-construction and sharing of resources throughout the whole society
synergistically synergy
During the process of the pilots, based on great attention and co-construction of the local
governments, promoting the regional joint development and making full use of the social platform
function for the board of trustees have become one of the major factors of success of modern
governance of public libraries. That means that the innovation of the board of trustees system
could drive the new library-establishing pattern, and the trustees could use their background,
effects and resources to exert social influence and promote the value of librarianship. Through
expanding cooperation, it will draw and extend the awareness and recognition of public libraries
and the governance system, motivate the whole civic involvement and support, and promote the
co-construction and sharing of resources through the whole society synergy.

3.2 Perfecting the composition of the board of trustees, the matching rules and
regulations, clarifying the responsibilities of all stakeholders

1) Perfecting the composition of corporate governance, clarifying the lists of duties and
responsibilities, establishing of rules and regulations, standardizing the development
Opinions on the Establishment and Improvement of the Corporate Governance Structure of
Public Institutions (2013) has pointed out the basic requirement that “carrying out the work with
rules and regulations, relevant national policies and the institution charter”. Based on this, “library
charter” instead of the “charter of the public library board of trustees” becomes the carrier and
basic norms for the corporate governance to define the behavior.