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Library Trends "Cultural Heritage and Digital Scholarship in China: Part I" now available

The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 71 (3), edited by Lian J. Ruan and Shengping Xia. "Cultural Heritage and Digital Scholarship in China: Part I," explores the rich, diverse, and long history of China's cultural heritage and the innovative digital scholarship that is currently being utilized to study it. 

This issue, the first of two parts, addresses international collaboration, technology, and diversity. The table of contents includes:

  • "Introduction: Cultural Heritage and Digital Scholarship in China," by Lian J. Ruan and Shengping Xia
  • "International Cooperation in the Digital Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes," by Fengling Li and Shengping Xia
  • "A New Data-Mining Method for the Digital Great Wall Exemplified by Statistical Evaluation and Analysis of the Ming Great Wall Archery Windows," by Zhe Li, Mengdi Zhang, Xiaolong Tuo, Yukun Zhang, and Yan Li
  • "Research on Digital Application of the Bronze Carriage in Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum: Development of Immersive Virtual Assembly System," by Dong Han, Xuetong Gao, Haowen Dong, and Kun Zhao
  • "Research on the Digitization of Yunnan Pu’er Tea Processing Technology," by Yimin Zhao, Xiaofei Wang, Xiao Shi, and Xuelian Li
  • "Construction of a Knowledge-Based Database for the Intangible Cultural Heritage Shui Script: A Perspective from Oral Histories with Shui Script Masters," by Xueyan Song, Weimin Zhang, Xiangqing Zhang, Yaoyuan Meng, and Jia Liu

Library Trends is an essential tool for professional librarians and educators alike. Each issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. The journal is published quarterly for the School of Information Sciences by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Back issues (1952 through two years prior to the current issue) are available online through IDEALS, the digital repository for scholarly works produced at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Subscriptions to current issues are available both online and in print.

Please send ideas, inquiries, or issue proposals via email to Melissa Wong, editor-in-chief, at librarytrends@illinois.edu. 

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