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the social demands and helps social progress. It also makes continuous innovation as the society
develops. This article discusses issues associated with the library and society from six perspectives.
1) Serving the society and looking into the future. The international library community has
reached consensus on some critical issues. The first is all-media service. In the process of library
transformation, the management and service of the content is emphasized and both the digital and
print materials are taken into account. The second is full-circle service which requires that users’
information demands in each stage such as in learning, research, production and living should
be paid attention to. The third is literacy service which means that the library should attach more
importance to multiliteracy education such as information, media, digital and technical literacies.
The Chinese library community should make efforts in the following three aspects: improving
abilities in technology research and development, enhancing China’s voice in the standard
specifications and strengthening fundamental theoretical research in library science.
2) Theoretical prospect of the library and society. In view of the theoretical philosophy, we
should study further modern library ideas to provide more and better theoretical support for
selecting the development path of Chinese librarianship. In respect of the institution, we should be
concerned with the building of and research on library institution to provide theoretical support,
polices, institutional frameworks and norms for institution building. We should also promote
the institutions to the grass-root level and to be systematic, and establish institutions targeted
at grass-root libraries, different groups of people and different services. With regard to culture,
library science should get involved in organizational culture research to make it conscious to build
organizational culture, which will play a positive role in the relationship between the library and
society.
3) Future-oriented library education. We should identify the new demands and characteristics of
the era, boost the high-quality development of the librarianship, adapt the library education to new
demands of the digital society and set up a new system of library education of high level.
4) The future intelligent knowledge service of the library. With its advantages in mass knowledge
resources and user groups, the library serves as the fundamental knowledge repository and corpus
for the development of intelligent knowledge service. Centered on knowledge service demands in
scientific discovery, technological innovation and diffusion, the library should explore intelligent
knowledge service technologies, systems and integrated “Cloud-Edge-Device” equipment to lay
the solid foundation for library service innovation in the new technological era.
5) Promoting innovation and high-quality development of public libraries in the new
development paradigm. It includes: elevating services of public libraries by speeding up the
domestic economy as the mainstay; enhancing international cultural communication of public
libraries under the guidance of driving both the domestic and the global economy; satisfying the
ever-growing needs of users with the inspiration of stimulating consumption in all sectors; and
strengthening and optimizing the infrastructures of public libraries on the occasion of improving
the investment environment.