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This paper examines the case of "The Warmest Library in History" and discusses how the library rights ideology has been propagated in Mainland China in recent years, from the perspectives of the planning and promotion activities of professional organizations, advocacy and appeals of professional journals, the scholarship of academics, and the mass media's reporting and influence. This study reveals how the case and the attention it received reflect the progress and positive effect of the propagation of the library rights ideology in China. The people of China have begun to be awakened to those rights, but there is a long way to go until they are fully realized, and theoretical research and practice on library rights in Mainland China are still in their infancy. It is a long-term, arduous and historical mission, and there is an urgent duty for library professionals in China to advocate for making policies on library rights, to protect and preserve those rights, to make people more conscious of those rights, and to conduct more research on library rights theory and practice. Research methods employed in this paper include case study and historical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]