Abstract

With the development of China’s social economy, higher education and the Internet, China has established a number of regional alliances (RA) of university libraries (UL). The university library regional alliances (ULRAS) are an important part of university library alliances (ULAS). The development of ULRAS in China plays an important role in promoting the construction of ULAS and improving the whole network system of Chinese university library alliances (CULAS). This paper mainly adopts the method of case analysis to study the development of ULRAS in China from the perspectives of development status, characteristics and trend. The purpose is to study the general model of the development of ULAS in China and provide reference for the construction of RA in other regions of China and other countries in the world.

Highlights

  • With the vigorous development of China’s social and economic, higher education and the Internet, the “co-construction and sharing” (CCS) has become the strong voice of China’s university libraries (UL) cooperation

  • As the first university alliance officially launched in Yunnan Province, the establishment of the Yunnan University Library Alliance (YNULA) is conducive to the joint procurement of information resources (IR) and the establishment of regional libraries, and promotes the construction of characteristic data resource libraries among member libraries in the alliance, and realizes information the expansion of shared space and the CCS of resources (Li & Duan, 2015)

  • Zhejiang Academic Digital Library (ZADL) adopts a project management system (MS), and the management center of ZADL determines the subprojects to be constructed according to the plan approved by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education (PDE)

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Summary

Introduction

With the vigorous development of China’s social and economic, higher education and the Internet, the “co-construction and sharing” (CCS) has become the strong voice of China’s UL cooperation. In the past 20 years, the construction of university library alliances (ULAS) in China has made great progress, and large-scale regional alliances (RA) have been established in various provinces. The development of regional library alliances (RLAS) in China has made great contributions to the improvement of the system construction and the promotion of the development of ULAS in China. L. Yi so as to provide reference for the construction of regional alliances of UL in other regions of China and other countries in the world

Provincial Regional Alliances
Municipal Regional Alliances
Inter-Provincial Regional Alliances
Phased Construction
Project Operation
Development Trend
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