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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
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