OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Conference 2012, National Library of Malaysia, 3-4 September 2012.

1. The New Developments of
University Libraries Cooperation
in Mainland of China
DENG Jingkang
Tsinghua University Library, Beijing, China
OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2012.09.03
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2. OUTLINE:
1. SCAL
2. CALIS Project
3. Service Practices at Tsinghua Library
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3. SCAL ：
Steering Committee for Academic Libraries of China
– Annual meeting
– About 70 directors particated
 Major working groups
– Information literacy education
– Literature resources construction
– Information technology applications
– Service innovation – Team building
– Periodical – Vocational education
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4. Events of each working group 2011-12
 Information literacy education group
Exchange of experiences and teacher training
for literature retrieval courses in colleges
and universities, Sept. 2011
– 277 librarians and 10 lectures participated
– From 119 university libraries 26 provinces
– Various in forms:
Keynote reports, Special training,
Cases presentation, Discussions, …
– Closing ceremony and certificate of completion
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5. Events of each working group 2011-12
 Literature resources construction group
Events in 2011-12 ：
–Information system for acquisition of Chinese
Books, and ~400 librarians trained
A satisfactory solution to the book publishing
information sources
–Business training for literature resources
construction
A seminar for college library resource building
training, May 2012, Wuhan
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6. Events of each working group 2011-12
 Information technology applications group
Annual conference in 2011, Chongqing
– Major themes:
DL practice of innovation: technology and the
future, RFID, Mobile library, data mining, …
– 144 librarians from 73 universities
– 85 academic papers collected
– 13 paper is evaluated the outstanding papers
– 6 keynote reports
– and 6 reports based on excellent papers
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7. Events of each working group 2011-12
 Service innovation group
Events in 2011-12 ：
–Library Management and Service Innovation
Forum, Nov. 2011, Wuhan
Library planning and librarians career design
–Guidelines of disciplines service practices
–Subject librarian training courses
–New curator seminar, July, 2011, Tianjin
–Into the western region experts speak activities
–Service cases collection and communication
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8. Events of each working group 2011-12
Periodical group
Events in 2011-12 ：
–Group working meeting: The main problems of
the library periodicals in the digital environment
Core journals sharing, Cataloging of electronic
journals in the digital environment, preservation
of paper journals in the limited space, in-depth
services with journals, …
–Editing “Journal studies”:
Periodical collections in University library in the
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9. Events of each working group 2011-12
 Team building group
Events in 2011-12 ：
–Group working meeting and work plan
–The present situation study of university library
team construction
directors, professional stuff, support stuff,
student assistants in 546 university libraries,
–“Academic Library Regulation” amendments
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10. Interesting spots:
– In-depth cooperation and sharing
– University libraries’ open services to the society
– Development of discover system (including
foreign language and Chinese)
– To make better use of the library physical space
– Libraries play more important role in universities
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11. 1. SCAL
2. CALIS Project
3. Service Practices at Tsinghua Library
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12. CALIS ：
China Academic Library and Information System
– Started from 1998
– Supported by Chinese government
– Members signed CALIS service agreement:
1284
– 49 sub-projects
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13.  The overall objective of CALIS
– Integrating global academic resources and
their services
– Utilizing advanced technology
– Construct the digital library of Chinese higher
education
– Continuing the service to Chinese higher
education and even to the education for all
people
– Promoting global academic exchange
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14.  The target of CALIS-III
– On the basis of CALIS and CADAL service and
technology system
– Strengthen the infrastructure construction
– integrating the resources and services of the
international famous literature service entity
and business entity
– Continuously build the advanced distributed
Chinese Academic Digital library
– Provide the best service, the most available
literatures in China and orients teaching and
research of various universities
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15. CALIS 三期主页

16.  The construction contents of CALIS-III
– Standards system Establishment of DL-standards ??
– Infrastructure
– Information Resource Database
– Applications
– The service system
– Network and Data Security system
– Human resources and training system
– Period: Sept. 2010-May 2012
– Funded with RMB 210,000,000
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17.  The resource and service sharing of CALIS-III
– Literature sharing: 539 members
– Union Catalog system: 830 members
– Collaborative procurement
– Reference
– Librarian training
– Directory service:
853 members for CCC of western journal
658 members for e-du (e 读 ) service
– Software and devices
– Constructing various Shared Domain
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18.  Corporation between CALIS and OCLC
In Oct. 2011, CALIS and OCLC signed a
cooperation contract.
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19.  Corporation between CALIS and OCLC
– Cooperation between the largest Chinese-
language resource sharing organization and
US and globe resource sharing organization
– CALIS provides the Chinese books
bibliographic data 1987-2001 to OCLC
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20. 1. SCAL
2. CALIS Project
3. Service Practices at Tsinghua Library
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21. 2011: Tsinghua’s Centenary Celebration
Tsinghua University,
founded in 1911,
is one of the best
comprehensive university
in China.

22. Tsinghua University has
– 16 schools and 55 departments
– 3036 faculties
2011: 37,650 Students on campus
– About 9,750 new students enrollment
– B-3,736, M-3,882, D-2,106, F-1,045
Campus Area: 392.4 hectares
– Floor space: 1.99 Million M2
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23. 2012:
University Library’s Centenary Celebration
 University library founded in 1912
 Main Library & 7 branch Libraries
 Professional staff: 70
 Support staff: 140, Student Ass.: 230
 Floor area: ~ 60,000 M2
 User seats: 3,400

24.  Resources:
– ~4.2 million print volumes
– 500 databases
– 65,000 e-journals
– 2.46 million e-books
– 1.90 million dissertations
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25. The 1st building ：
Opened in 1919
~2100 m2 floor area
Architect: H. Murphy
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26. The 2nd building ：
Opened in 1931
~5,600 M2 floor area
Architect ： T.B.
Yang 26

27. The 3rd building ： Yifu Building
Opened in 1991
~21,000 M2 floor area
Architect ： Z.Y.
Guan 27

28. Humanity and Social sciences Library ：
Open in 2011 ~800 seats
~20,000 m2 floor area Architect ： Mario Botta
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29. Smart talking robot “Xiaotu” ( 小图 ) :
24-hour-online reference service
 Functions:
– Natural language talking in Chinese
– Expert answers in professional fields
– Book searching in the OPAC system
– Baike Encyclopedia searching
— a third party application integration
– Self-directed learning
– Recommendation of hot spots
– Natural language talking in English
– Integration with social networking sites
– Mobile devices compatible 29

30.  Effects:
– Largest number of visitors in one day > 7000
– Reported by medias home and abroad including
Cornell University Library and IOP publisher
– Loved by young readers
 Peer review:
– Enlighten and inspire us in the realization of the
intelligent service of the real-time virtual
reference, present a promisingly new online
reference service modus operandi.
– Comprehensively utilizing these technologies
and cooperating library resources, it skillfully
form a novel service mode, which this is worthy
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31. “Falling Love with the Library” 爱上图书馆
A Promotional Series Presented by Tsinghua Library
– 6 short videos
1 mini-game
1 research report
– Created by professional
librarians cooperating with
college students
– Attracted wide attention and
support from the students
and the public as well
– 200,000 visits for the videos
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32. We’re trying:
– To promote library services, resources,
technologies and facilities in a popular way
– To evoke a feeling of love for the library in a story
full of relaxation, romance, fun, and warmth
– To accomplish the objectives by creating user-
oriented content with user participation
– To promote library services using Web 2.0
technologies, such as microblog, social networks
– To improve library literacy in a way of
entertainment, like stories and games
– To raise the profile of the library across the
university
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33. Won the 10th IFLA International
Marketing Award First Place !
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34. TWIMS:
Tsinghua WIreless and Mobile Digital Library System
 Short message service
– Circulation notice ；
– Training seminars notice
– search OPAC’s results can be sent to patron phone
– Find book based OPAC
– Find Library Services telephone
– Send 830,000 since 2007 / Send 460,000 in 2011
 Multimedia Messaging Service
– Push TOC of latest articles of selected journals to
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35.  WAP service—Based Wireless Application
Protocol
– library introduction
– catalogue retrieval
– e-resources integrated retrieve based Primo
– Full text browse adaptive mobile phone
 Two-dimensional code application
– Fresh student/patron guide
– Library floor maps
– Library practical tutorial
– Voice of library director about welcome word
speech
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36. “Shuimu” Discover ( 水木搜索 ) ：
Subject support service based on mass data
 “Shuimu” Discover could provide ：
– Subject trends analysis based on mass data
– Scholarly matrix based on mass data
– Academic recommend based on data mining
 The mass data includes ：
– Library owned data: bibliography, thesis, OAPS
– Acquisition data: e-journals & RSS, e-books
– Metadata Repository: >510 M metadata, CQVIP
– Others: Wiki, Reviews, TH scholar, book abstr.
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37. Subject trends analysis
Scholarly matrix
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38. The library is such a place —— serving
readers as much as possible without
expecting any reward; everyone coming
here will quiet down consciously. In this
fickle environment, it’s a little fragment
fallen down from the paradise to the
would.
——Reader’s message
(Department of Precision Instruments
undergraduate)
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39. 谢 谢
Thank you
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