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plans driven by information resources, information resource-centered organizational governance.
2) information resource ensuring methods, such as information resource planning, capability
maturity models on IRM as well as digital continuity assurance. 3) deep wrangling of information
resources, including tidying information resources, intelligent IRM technologies and human-
machine collaborative information resource processing methods. 4) prescriptive analysis of
information resources, especially introducing simulation, real-time analysis, visualization
technologies into IRM. 5) on time insights on information resources, including information
resource awareness and literacy, in-time services on information request, and information resource-
centered computing pattern. 6) product development on information resources, such as embedding
applications of information resources, converting to information resources into business process,
information resource-driven services, service experience. 7) asset management of information
resource, including digital humanities and digital economy, market-oriented development and
industrialization of information resources, information resource ecosystems.

Demand analysis and framework construction of collection disposal system
for public libraries in China

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HUANG Ruhua, ZHAO Yang, SHEN Xiaojuan, XIE Chunzhi, WEN Fangfang, LAI Tong & YANG Fan
Construction of Collection Disposal System in Chinese public libraries is important for library
management. It can also guide the libraries’ collection disposal work. Necessities and feasibility
can be shown in the construction of the system. For its necessities, on the one hand, it is driven
by the related policies and regulations. On the other hand, it is the requirements of libraries’
sustainable development. For its feasibility, constructing the system has the foundation from local
practices as well as the support of experiences in foreign countries.
This paper investigated Collection Disposal Systems from diverse Chinese local public libraries
and its disposal work via policy document analysis, questionnaire and interviews. There were 70
collection weeding policy documents from 43 Chinese public libraries for the subjects of policy
document analysis. Meanwhile, we collected questionnaire data from 44 public libraries that were
in Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. 12 public librarians from 9 provinces and 3 professors
were also interviewed. According to the collected data, we analyzed libraries’ needs and problems
when developing such systems through four aspects, which were library collection disposal
criteria, procedure and methods, and the departments of libraries as well.
We developed a framework of the Collection Disposal System for public libraries in China from
the national perspective. The framework includes 3 sub-systems: 1) A guarantee system, including
related regulations, policies and evaluation criteria. While abiding by the existing regulations and

* Correspondence should be addressed to LAI Tong, Email: amelialtt@163.com, ORCID: 0000-0002-5912-9760