圖書館事業專欄／面向數位化及日益多樣化的館藏建設與服務：上海圖書館的經驗與策略／張奇 | Toward Digitization and Increasingly Diverse Collections and Services: Strategy and Experiences of the Shanghai Library / Zhang Qi

Abstract

<p>As an indispensable part of society, libraries are experiencing the changes, enjoying the progress, and hoping to benefit from the promises of digitalization. With consolidation of collections from many local libraries, The Shanghai Library must continue to provide traditional services and explore and implement appropriate development opportunities offered by 21st century technology. The Shanghai Library is the second largest library in China, with a total collection of 50.95 million titles. Since its establishment in 1952, the Library has grown rapidly through some historic mergers. In 1958 the city government combined four municipal libraries (Municipal Historical Document Library, Municipal Periodicals Library, Municipal Science and Technology Library, and the Shanghai Library) with some other collections including the Bibliotheca Xujiahui and SMC (Shanghai Municipal Council) Library. In 1995, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai (known as ISTIS), one of the country&rsquo;s leading information institutions, was merged with the Shanghai Library, resulting in the first combination of a library and an information institution in the country. This was an epoch-making event in Chinese librarianship. The merger between library and information institute has provided a significant opportunity for the Shanghai Library to redefine itself as a center of information resources, an information clearinghouse, a knowledge repository, a school of life-long</p><p>頁次：95-98</p>