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reality, give classified guidance, and avoid the traditional “one size fits all” approach. This requires
making adjustment and progress timely, demonstrating the difference targeted to the regional
characteristics, and avoiding the stereotype phenomenon.
1) Adjustable reform targeted to the time
With the continuous development of the pilots, more and more public libraries have started the
exploration of the corporate governance. With the increasing insight into the importance of cultural
system reform for each level of government, the first round pilots have begun to adjust on the
following aspects: on the one hand, they started to adjust their target to the upcoming future age;
on the other hand, they explore new ways and solutions to the problems of the pilots, including
trustees’ replacement and supplement, formulating and revising the charter and relevant matching
rules and regulations, etc. The adjustable reform targeted to the time could make the public library
board of trustees system provide much better and efficient services for the whole society, create
much more social benefits based on “advancing with times” and “out with the old, making way for
the new”.
2) Different reform targeted to the regional practices
Due to the differences in the social environment and service objects, the corporate governance
of public libraries with different regions and different levels should show the differences by their
own construction and development. For example, Futian District Library in Shenzhen City had
perfected the operation of the central-branch system by the board of trustees, and promoted the
flat-styled management, scientific operation and standardized service; the Wenzhou Library board
of supervisors had set up the readers’ watchdog group to ensure that the readers could give a full
play for their supervisory roles; the board of trustees of Shunde District Library in Foshan City
had focused on the regional development, emphasized on the magnificent effect of academic
research to the practices and an overall improvement in the development of local librarianship,
and established the Academic Research Committee. Due to the geographical advantages, the
specialists had been the trustees from the areas of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan in Shenzhen
Library and Pudong New Area Library (Shanghai), and all of them had played the trustees’ active
roles. In particular, Pudong New Area Library had learned from Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone,
enacted the “negative list” system to identify the behaviors of the superior department, the board of
trustees and library management, in order to avoid and limit the superior department interference
in the specific matters of the library. Moreover, the supervision and management of the public
library governance should be based on the actual size and the number of service population of the
public libraries. The different innovation system from the public libraries with different regions,
different administrative levels and different categories could provide more experiences, models
and demonstrations for the corporate governance structure of public libraries.