This connection between experts with collaboration experience and those seeking to understand successful collaborations is the key impact of this book.

• Focusing on the positive aspect of collaboration in health sciences libraries, this book encourages others to form collaborations mutually beneficial to the library and the collaboration partner.
• Through case studies, readers are exposed to new ideas and ways to enhance existing collaborations.
• By contacting individual authors and learning more about their experiences, readers share ideas and connect with a network of librarians with collaboration expertise.

The first part of the book places discussion in historical context, before moving on to the digital environment of the Chinese library. The book then considers the issue of digital copyright in China, and debates the core values of the Chinese library. The next three chapters cover public and academic libraries, and library consortia. Finally, the book gives a view of the future prospects for libraries in China.

• Unique in focusing on digital libraries in China
• Provides a comprehensive overview of libraries in contemporary China
• Presents valuable information formerly available only in Chinese

Also gives details of agents, prizes, writers’ circles, associations and festivals.

The book provides a step-by-step guideline for system analysis and requirements analysis. The book also provides reviews of existing portal models for sharing resources and identifies the gap in meeting the objectives. The book provides a framework for a cost effective unified portal model to share the electronic information resources available in the participating libraries in a distributed digital environment.