1. Chinese Values Guiding
Principles for To-day’s Library
Services
Tze-chung Li 李志鍾
Professor and Dean Emeritus
Dominican University Graduate School of Library and
Information Science

2. Fortune Cookie
“If you wish to succeed, consult three old
people.”

3. Major academic libraries budget cut
• Cornell 940,000 for collection
• Emory 200,000 for collection
• MIT 400,000 for collection
• Tennessee 1,300,000 total
• Washington 2,400,000 total
• UCLA 400,000 for collectio
• Yale 900,000 for collection

4. public libraries budget cut
• Michigan 40 %
• Ohio 30 %
• California 10%
• Chicago 11%

5. Richard McGregor
• China’s star is shining more brightly than
ever and China has the ability to remake
the world economy

6. Alan Brinkley
• Henry Luce used the term “American
Century” in 1941.

7. Three Chinese Values
• 苟日新 , 日日新 , 又日新 guo ri xin, ri ri
xin, you ri xin (Do new thing every day,
new from day to day, and newer next day).
• 有教無類 you jiao wu lei (Teaching
should be for all, irrespective of their social
classes).
• 民為貴 , 社稷次之 min wei gui, she ji ci
zhi (People first, society second)

8. • First, 苟日新 , 日日新 , 又日新 guo ri xin,
ri ri xin, you ri xin (Do new thing every day,
new from day to day, and newer next day).

9. 3G Information
• generation of books
• generation of microform
• generation of digital

10. Imposing array of digital information
achievements
• online databases
• CD-ROMs
• multimedia and the Internet

12. • The Monkey King 孫悟空 in a fiction,
Journal to the West 西遊記 , can travel
over 10,000 miles by one somersault.

13. • Google Book Search (GBS)
• University of Tennessee Libraries
• Harvard Digital Repository Service (DRS)
• Amazon Kindle

14. Digital library impacts on its use
• status of research library is irrelevant
• privilege of browsing books in library
stacks is gone
• use of several books on the table is not
attainable

15. Free Text Search
In any search device, the free text is a basic
technique You can enter any word or
words and words in any order to search.
But the free text search results in large
recall, less relevancy.

16. Pro Quest Dialog

17. Dialog Search
• qualify or combine your search by title,
author, corporate source, document type,
journal name, language, publication year,
and others, depending upon the data
format.
• sort the result by author, title, and date in
some databases.

18. Librarians must catch up every day new
developments and innovations. Librarians
have duties involve licensing, buying
digital materials, producing, preserving
digital, assigning identification markers
called meta-tags for easy access,
researching copyright matters and
effectively using them

19. Second, 有教無類 you jiao wu lei
(Teaching should be for all, irrespective of
their social classes).

20. Search Engines
All search engines, such as Altavista, Ask
, Exalead , Go, Google, HotBot, Yahoo,
and the latest Bing provide tree-text
searching

21. A librarian must teach readers to use
qualified search. For instance, Google’s
simple qualifiers are symbols such as
+
-
*
“”
~

22. Alvin Johnson
A public library is a school for the young
and a college for the adult

23. Russell A. Hall
• a library school should offer a course
“Teaching how to Teach”
• Or, “library schools are doing their
students and the future employers of
these students a disservice by failing to
recognize user education as a core
competency of today’s information
professional

24. The third Chinese value is 民為貴 , 社稷
次之 min wei gui, she ji ci zhi (People
first, society second).

25. ALA’s Core Competences of
Librarians
The role of library and information
professions is in the promotion of
democratic principles and intellectual
freedom (including freedom of expression,
thought, and conscience).

26. Archibald MacLeish
Librarians had burdens to educate people
to understand the value and culture of
democracy

27. Some defending freedom cases
• United States et al v. American Library
Association et al (2003)
• American Library Association v. Pataki
(1997)

28. Politics in Librarianship course
The course studies politics, policies, and
legislation in librarianship. One of the
topics for study is to study the value and
conscience of democracy, freedom,
equality, and the rule of law.

29. • As librarians, you have huge
responsibilities in promoting, advancing
knowledge and in defending democracy,
freedom of speech, and the rule of law.
• Librarians must abide by Chinese values
in actively and passionately carrying out
the tasks mentioned above for excellence
in library services.

30. Thanks
謝謝