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mainstream IS theory and drove the knowledge platform construction. The debate about whether
information or intelligence should be the focus of Chinese IS was a hot topic and influenced
the development direction of the Chinese S&T information enterprise. In the innovation period,
facing the challenge of new information infrastructure and the call of current state strategy, both
IS theory and S&T information enterprise need innovation. It discusses the ways of IS theory’s
guiding enterprise from the perspective of the “eyes and ears, vanguard and consultant” roles
of information and integration of IS and data science. It argues S&T information professionals
should provide information support to S&T innovation, self-reliance and self-improvement. It
points out that Qian Xuesen’s metasynthetic thought can be utilized as the theoretical framework
for integrating IS and data science. The wisdom-oriented information engineering should be
realized.
This paper also discusses the future co-development of Chinese IS theory and S&T information
enterprise in the next decade. The breakthrough in the fundamentals of information science is the
new driving force of S&T information enterprise development. Taking the information problem in
industrial policy debate as an example, it argues that the legitimacy and value of S&T information
work should be theoretically verified. It also calls for the innovative S&T information work mode
based on the fusion of elements along the information concept chain.

Empowerment mechanism of library high-quality development

KE Ping & PENG Liang 〇a*

Under the new environment of high-quality development of our country, librarianship has entered
a new stage of development, and high-quality development of library has become a new theme of
library science and librarianship. There is an urgent need to solve the mechanism issues of how
library can achieve high-quality development. This paper shows that it is difficult to realize the
high-quality development of library only by relying on the traditional optimization methods. We
must innovate the mechanism to solve the driving force of the development. High-quality library
development requires not only high-quality development of one element, such as management,
resources and services, but also high-quality development of the library as a whole. This paper
introduces a new concept of empowerment, considering delegation, digitalization, knowledge and
wisdom as four important elements of empowerment applied to high-quality library development.
Although these four elements cannot be promoted at the same time, they can influence and
relate each other to form the empowerment mechanism of the library. Given the challenges
and opportunities presented to libraries by the social and technological environment, this paper
discusses the empowerment mechanism of high-quality library development from two analytical

* Correspondence should be addressed to PENG Liang, Email:pengliang88118@163.com, ORCID: 0000-0003-4845-3298.