1、Towards Digital Age: Trends of Academic Libraries in Mainland China,PRDLA 2010 Meeting Fudan Shanghai 2010.10.20,Outline,Introduction Challenges Trends,Introduction,The cause of academic libraries is part of the cause of higher education The reform and development of academic libraries are depending
2、 on the reform and development of higher education of China,The development of Higher Education in China,Source：Yearbook of China Education，Website of the Ministry of Education,Public higher institutions 1908 4 years 740 2 or 3 years 1168 Including vocational institutions 1015 Adults higher institut
3、ions 413 Private higher institutions 906 Another source (by 2009.9.16.): 1983,The development of academic libraries,source：Journal for Academic Libraries, statistics by Steering Committee for Academic Libraries,Case: Peking University Library,Note: collection not including digital resource,Administr
4、ative mechanism Bureau of Higher Education, Ministry of Education Policy making Steering Committee for Academic LibrariesAdvisory and Coordinating Library Society of Academic LibrariesScholarly communication activities,Cooperation and resource sharing National : 3 “C”-CALIS, CASHL, CADAL DRAA-Digita
5、l Resource Acquisition Alliance Regional Local Special,Challenges,In general, as for library development, this is the best period in the history However, we are facing serious challenges Fast changes Unbalanced development,Environment changes E-publishing E-communication E-science E-learning E-every
6、thing Wireless networking Open access,User changes Reading behavior Browsing Scattering Self-service One-stop access Copy and paste Leaving library Social networking,Library changes Catalog became weak Cataloging is out of main stream Circulation goes down Reference decrease Outsourcing increase Dig
7、ital conservation and preservation Integrating e-resource with paper material ,Report about Catalog for LC（2006）:The destabilizing influences of the Web, widespread ownership of personal computers, and rising computer literacy have created an era of discontinuous change in research librariesa time w
8、hen the cumulated assets of the past do not guarantee future success. The library catalog is such an asset. Today, a large and growing number of students and scholars routinely bypass library catalogs in favor of other discovery tools, and the catalog represents a shrinking proportion of the univers
9、e of scholarly information.,14,The catalog is in decline, its processes and structures are unsustainable, and change needs to be swift.,15,Change is so fast and broad, we are not fit in various aspects: Vision and attitude Administration Management Organization Work flow Staffing Standard ,Trends,Fa
10、cing so many changes, its useless to resist or stand by, rather, we have to promote the digital library construction, from “Hybrid” to “E-only”. We may need to pay attention to the following trends: Resource filtering and evaluation Infometric services,Embedding knowledge service into e-science and e-learning Information literacy education Mobile services Data linking and knowledge organizing with ontology Cloud services,More and more, we need a lot of technicians and tools Staff training and knowledge sharing will be the proper way And, cooperation!,Thanks！,
