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policies, we should also make appropriate amendments and adjustments to the regulations, policies
and evaluation criteria. 2) An operating system, which includes the collection disposal principles,
criteria, procedure, methods as well as the responsibility of each department. According to the
principles of compliance, normalization, classification and collaboration, the collection disposal
procedure has a six-stage work tasks, including formulating detailed rules for the collection
disposal, proposing collection disposal suggestions, approving, withdrawing, transferring, and
establishing business files. As for collection disposal methods, there are allocation, exchange,
donation, sale and cancellation. When considering the collection disposal criteria, the factors
mainly include content, physical condition, time constraint, circulation, and additional copies,
taking into account other factors such as cost, loss, copyrights and so on. 3) A supervision system.
Libraries should define diverse subjects of supervision including the combination of government
supervision and social supervision. Therefore, they can establish multi-channel supervision
ways such as by library websites, social media, etc. We provided a reference for speeding up
the development of library collection disposal system, standardizing the procedure of collection
disposal work and improving the effect of collection disposal implementation.

The function evolution and orientation of provincial libraries under the
modern vision

HE Guanglun & WANG Jialing 〇a ∗

The public library is influenced by the eastward development of the west and comes into being and
develops along with China’s pursuit of modernization. Some provincial libraries are the earliest
public library established in modern China. They play an important role in Chinese modern society
and the history of library development. It is of great significance for the research of Chinese
library history, the orientation and development of provincial libraries in the future to follow the
development track and the evolution of functions of provincial libraries in different periods. Since
the establishment of provincial libraries, their functions have changed repeatedly due to the impact
of social environment and the overall development of library undertakings. At the end of the Qing
Dynasty, 14 provincial libraries in 13 provinces were established, whose functions were to provide
open borrowing and reading, preserve culture, spread civilization and open up people’s wisdom.
In the early period of the Republic of China, provincial libraries were set up in every province.
Under the republican system, some county and city public libraries were set up, and provincial
libraries were no longer unique. Then the provincial libraries were mostly led by distinguished
scholars and were much better than the county and city libraries in general. Compared with county
and city libraries, the provincial libraries could overcome the hardship of survival and became the

* Correspondence should be addressed to WANG Jialing, Email: 767711437@qq.com, ORCID: 0000-0003-4612-1716