Abstract

The Beijing Academic Library & Information System (BALIS) is the largest regional university library alliance (RULA) in Beijing, which has 90 member libraries, covering almost all university libraries (UL) in Beijing. It was founded in 2007, through more than ten years of development, which has formed a certain business scale. Its services mainly cover six aspects: document delivery (DD), interlibrary loan (ILL), group procurement, joint consulting, business training and technical support. BALIS is the representative of the development of Chinese RULA. The ten years of rapid development of BALIS are also the ten years of rapid development of the RULA. Through researching on it, the construction ideas (CI), organizational structure (OS), and operation methods (OM) of RULA in China can be well revealed. Therefore, this article adopts the method of case analysis, in order to grasp the development context and law of China’s RULA changes through the analysis of BALIS.

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