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How is FOLIO Different from Its Predecessors?

FOLIO is a future-oriented library service platform. Enlightened by the results of the 2021 International Survey of Library Automation, the author shared thoughts on how FOLIO meets librarians’ expectations, why it’s a good time to get involved in…

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The Development of Digital Humanities and Academic Research in China: A Special Issue of Library Trends

The Library Trends is published quarterly for the iSchool by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Each issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. In the…

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Embedding library services in research stages: Chinese subject service and the research lifecycle model

Through in-depth interviews, we analyzed user needs at different stages of scientific research, and constructed a library service model that can be practically integrated into all research stages. This article highlights the subject service model in…

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Conference Report and Journal Launch, Beijing, China

June 8-9, 2017, the National Science Library of China (NSLC) hosted the first Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery conference and Big Data Analysis for Decision-Making workshop. This meeting took its name from the Journal of Data Analysis and…

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The newly discovered rare books in the UBC Asian Library

Catalog of newly discovered rare books at the University of British Columbia's Asian library.

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The Seto Collection in the UBC Asian Library: its usefulness to scholars and students

Article in the Journal of East Asian Libraries on the Seto Collection at the University of British Columbia and how it is used by scholars and students.

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Motivations for choosing librarianship as a second career among students of University of British Columbia and University of Hong Kong

The pathway to a career in the Library and Information Science field is rarely straightforward and unidirectional, but is often multi-faceted, with many circuitous detours along the way. There has been an increasing number of second-career in LIS…

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Chinese special collections at UBC Library

This paper about the Chinese special collection housed at the University of British Columbia was presented to the International Symposium on Descriptive Bibliography and Scholarly Editing at Sun Yat-sen University by Jing Liu.

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Canadian missionaries in Northern China

This is an article about Canadian missionaries who visited Northern China prepared for the Journal of Society for Chinese Studies Librarians in 2016.

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Canadian missionaries in Northern China

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