VALA2004 Plenary 4 Jianzhong

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Developing a Borderless Hybrid Library: Shanghai Experience

VALA 2004 PLENARY 4: Wu Jianzhong
Wednesday 4 February 2004, 16:10 – 17:25

Wu Jianzhong

Director, Shanghai Library, China
http://www.library.sh.cn

VALA2004
Keynote Speaker

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Abstract

Since the new building opened in 1996, the Shanghai Library has strived to create a borderless hybrid library. Taking advantage of the consolidation of the Shanghai Library and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai (ISTIS), the new institution has developed a knowledge service system in an all-round way for the general public, for the research and business community, and for the policy-makers and legislators, and also a digital library system to integrate all the conventional and electronic resources and to extend the hybrid services to all the libraries in Shanghai. The presentation will focus on the library’s innovative, integrative and interactive hybrid services as well as some technical development including Chinese metadata and cataloguing programs.