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hundred years. Dividing the one hundred years history into different periods will not only help us
understand China’s modern library science education history more clearly but also contribute to
exploring the connections or diversities among different periods and find the development path of
China’s modern library science education. When dividing the periods of China’s modern library
science education history, it is necessary to comprehensively consider the influence of political,
economic, cultural, and librarianship development factors on library education. Besides that it also
needs to consider the characteristics of the library science education itself.
In view of the above considerations, the article comprehensively uses literature research
method, historical research method and other research methods to divide the history of library
science education in China into: 1) Initiation period (1920-July 1941); 2) Growth period (August
1941-September 1949); 3) Transformation period (October 1949-April 1966); 4) Stagnation
period (May 1966-October 1976); 5) Recovery period (November 1976-September 1992);
6) Reform and breakthrough period (October 1992-). By comparing the different periods, the
article concludes the development path of Chinese library science education in the past 100
years as follows: 1) Professionalization and standardization are constantly improving; 2) Library
education in schools evolves from single level to multiple levels and to the high level, and the
universities now are the main institutions carrying out the library science education; 3) Training is
always the important part of library science education; 4) The “blind spot effect” of library science
education has intensified, which means in library science education the educators concentrate
most attention on how to help the patrons obtain the useful knowledge, hardly any on the reading,
library as space and many other contents, which are the reasons why people like the library. As a
result, the library science education falls short of meeting their profession’s needs.

No.3

Digital memory: A digital palace for cultural memory

FENG Huiling〇
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Informatization is a double-edged sword to human memory. While strengthening the recording
ability of social life, information technology has also led to a new phenomenon of social amnesia.
Digital memory could be a new generation of culture memory. With the changes of the technical
environment and development of thinking and behavior logic, memory enters into the digital world
rapidly and extensively. Digital memory has become a new generation of culture memory.
Since the 1990s, digital projects have spread all over the world. The construction main bodies

* Correspondence should be addressed to FENG Huiling, Email: fhl@ruc.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0003-4800-1259.