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make personnel plan in proportion. The quality of work in the library will be improved provided
that staffs’ initiative is mobilized.
Of course, librarians should love their work and devote to it. By hardworking, research and
improving professional abilities, we should seek to become expert or scholarly librarians. Only
abilities can guarantee status. “Expert librarians” refer to those with professional knowledge who
master knowledge in philology and library science as well as application of new technologies, and
also understand a discipline or field. The inter-disciplinary talents will play a more important role
in future development of the librarianship. Based on knowledge structure, librarians should address
their weakness as soon as possible. Librarians with the background of liberal arts need to learn
about technologies, while those with the background of technologies need to learn about document
knowledge. Taking advantage of the library’s environment and resources, librarians can make great
progress by means of self-study or taking part in trainings or conferences if they can hang in for
several years.

6 How to promote the joint construction and sharing of information
resources in the crossing-system and interdepartmental libraries

In the recent decade, the joint construction and sharing of information resources in the in-house
system has made rapid progress. For example, the China Academic Library & Information System
(CALIS) and the China Academic Humanities and Social Sciences Library (CASHL) have made
great advances in resource construction, platform building, service improvement, management
optimization and collaborative innovation. The two systems have become crucial information
infrastructures to support and guarantee teaching and research in universities. Nevertheless,
the joint construction and sharing in the crossing systems has made little progress. Information
resources not only refer to the published books and journals but also unpublished scientific data,
plans, reports and so on produced by institutions. Outline of National Informatization Development
Strategy was released by the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee
and the State Council (2016) on July 27, 2016. The Outline pinpointed that one of the sticking
points in information development was the co-existence of under-utilization and abusive utilization
of information resources. We should “exploit information and gain digital profit” (General Office
of the CPC Central Committee & General Office of the State Council, 2016). Exploitation and
utilization requires sharing, while sharing requires joint construction. In China the economic
growth pattern is in transition. Information resources have become vital production factors and
social wealth, which makes the level of the joint information resource construction and sharing
a significant symbol of national competitiveness. Interdepartmental information coordination
committees had been set up and conferences had been held, but with little effect. It is exactly the
time to promote the joint construction and sharing of information resources in the crossing-system
and interdepartmental libraries.