Author: WANG Shiwei
Publication date: 2020/09
Publication Press: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press
International Standard Book Number ISBN: 9787552032024

About the book
This book contains the author’s latest thinking and research  on public libraries’ inquiry service in recent years. Inquiry service is the public libraries’ strategic, creative and dialectical thinking for the future. Public Libraries’ Inquiry for the Future is a philosophical and professional proposition, and also a fundamental and strategic real problem for the future development of public libraries in China.
The author discusses five parts: Studying, Path, Technology, Architecture and Literature. Studying contains the researches on studying method and attitude of ancient books’ collation, etc. Path contains the development path and inclusive development of public libraries in China, etc. Technology contains artificial intelligence and library services, data-driven and education of library and information, etc. Architecture contains design of library’s space and building in metropolis. Literature contains the relevant literature stories with Gu Tinglong, Zhang Yuanji and Li lingpu and other scholars, and also the grey literature.

About the author
Wang Shiwei, Former director of Institute of information, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, researcher, has rich research results in library science, information science, historical literature study and other fields. In recent year, he mainly specializes in think-tank research, big data and national security study. He was the group leader of various important projects of national social science foundation and was invited to give lectures in US, Japan, Britain and Germany.