On August 7, the academic lecture on Planning and Designing and Business Promotion of Embedded Discipline Services of Library organized by the Library of City University of Macau and Macao Public Library and Information Management Association was held successfully at CityU. The training was conducted by Prof. Chu Jingli from the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Participants included Ophelia Tang, Head of Department of Public Library Management of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Wong Kwok Keung, Assistant Librarian at the University of Macao Public Library, Shi Li Mei, Librarian of CityU Library, and the library staff from the Department of Public Library Management of the Cultural Affairs Bureau and Macao’s universities.

Discipline service is one of the important capabilities to measure the depth and service level of university libraries for scientific research and teaching, and it is also the need of deepening and expanding university library service functions driven by the new academic environment and user demand. In order to meet the ever-changing development of content, policy, service methods and means of discipline services, Prof. Chu Jingli, Director of Journal Publishing and Operations of National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (and Director of Department of University Library Information and Archives Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, President and Editor-in-Chief of Library and Information Service, Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge Management Forum, Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Think Tank Theory and Practice, and Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Scientific and Technical Periodicals) was invited to give a special academic lecture to the library staff of Macao’s universities so as to promote information service capabilities of library discipline service personnel.

Prof. Chu pointed out that with the changes in user demand, user behavior, publishing field, information environment, information technology and social expectation, it is imperative for library transformation.  Discipline service is a professional service mode and mechanism integrated into the front line and embedded into the process. It centers on users and their needs and relies on information resources and discipline librarian services to provide users with in-depth information security and knowledge services. Prof. Chu shared the excellent experience of the embedded discipline service of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences from the discipline service model and the working rules, so that the participants had a clear and real feeling and experience of the discipline service.

Prof. Chu is a leader in the Chinese discipline librarian services and his lecture is simple and interesting. The participants were attentive and benefited a lot. Finally, Prof. Chu led the participants to think about the discipline service, and participants had a heated discussion on the positioning, methods and future development of the discipline service.  Everyone said that they would gradually open a new chapter in the discipline service of Macao universities.

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Prof. Chu Jingli

The Lecture