Browse Library Trends 62 (1) Summer 2013: Community Informatics in China by Title

  • Community Informatics in Chongqing: A Case Study of the Real-Name and ID Requirement Policy in the Chinese Railway System 
    Huo, Ran; Wei, Qunyi (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    This study discusses strategies for narrowing the digital divide by examining the real-name and ID requirement policy that governs online purchases of train tickets in China. Using a case study, the authors of this study ...

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  • Cybercafés in China: Community Access beyond Gaming and Tight Government Control 
    Qiu, Jack Linchaun (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    This article offers a historical overview and critique of cybercafés in China. Four phases of development are introduced: the initial “technological enlightenment” phase of the late 1990s; the turbulent, “crackdown” ...

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  • The Development, Current State, and Effects of Community Informatization in Mainland China 
    Lai, Maosheng; Fan, Zhenjia; Zhang, Lili (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    In recent years, community informatization initiatives have developed throughout mainland China. The meaning of “community informatization” in China is similar to “community informatics” in the U.S. This paper aims to ...

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  • Farmers' Reading Rooms and Information and Communications Technology in Rural Areas of Beijing 
    Tian, Rui (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    The reading rooms in the rural areas of Beijing are among the oldest farmers’ reading rooms in China. By 2011, 3,974 farmers’ reading rooms had been established in rural areas of Beijing; there is now one farmers’ reading ...

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  • The Flow of Information as Empowerment and the Changing Social Networking Landscape in Rural China 
    Cheng, Chung-Tai (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    The article explores the ways in which Chinese villagers adapt cell phone technology to their needs and desires in the context of rural urbanization. The first part of the article uses an example from two villages in ...

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  • Introduction to Library Trends 62 (4) Summer 2013: Community Informatics in China 
    Williams, Kate (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)

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  • Private Libraries in China: Their Diversity, Informatization, and Role as Public Spaces 
    Wang, Zizhou; Yin, Peili; Hanhua, Wu (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    Private libraries in China—most of which were created by bottom-up processes, not top-down government mandates—offer a diversity of services to a range of constituencies. They offer individuals space for reading and ...

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  • The Role of Information Technology in Academic Libraries' Resource Sharing in Western China 
    Ruan, Lian; Zhu, Qiang (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    This essay examines the work of China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), an academic library community that has established resource sharing in a network environment. More specifically, it examines CALIS’s ...

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  • Social Capital, Digital Inequality, and a "Glocal" Community Informatics Project in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province 
    Yan, Hui; Zhou, Wenjie; Han, Shenglong (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    This article examines a “glocal” community informatics project that is transforming villages in Western China. Funded and initiated by the U.S.-based Evergreen Education Foundation (EEF)—an organization that makes public ...

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  • Social Inclusion or Exclusion? When Weibo (Microblogging) Meets the ���New Generation��� of Rural Migrant Workers 
    Zhang, Pengyi (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    The rapid development of social media has had a profound impact on how people access and share information in China. Some researchers suggest that the new social media has broken through the monolithic propaganda of ...

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  • A Tale of Two Counties: How Two School Libraries in Rural Western China Serve Local Needs 
    Wei, Zhipeng; Jiang, Guodong; Niu, Tuowen; Zou, Tim; Dong, Elaine (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    This report presents a case study of school library programs in two rural counties in Western China. Since 2002, the libraries of Tianzhu and Tongwei high schools have undertaken a series of outreach initiatives to ...

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  • Three Digital Platforms: Hangzhou Public Library Widens Access to Resources 
    Clark, Christopher Peter; Su, Hui; Ruan, Li (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    This article investigates the “three digital platforms” of Hangzhou Public Library 杭州图书馆 through a discussion of information inequality, the digital divide, and community informatics. After an introduction to the context ...

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  • The Top-Down Approach to Providing ICT Access to Rural Communities in China: Opportunities for Community Informatics 
    Yu, Liangzhi; Yu, Binbin (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013)
    Community informatics (CI)—as practiced by Western academics and social activists—was introduced to China by a group of library and information science scholars in about 2010. But before this encounter, there was already ...

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