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In early 1606, the Chinese in Guangdong Province mobilized militarily upon learning that the Jesuits in Macau were rising up in an attempt to occupy China. However, the incident did not develop into persecution of the missionaries and was quickly put to an end with the restoration of the Jesuits' innocence. The peaceful resolution of the alleged Jesuit-led rebellion shed new light on the rich yet complex missionary conditions in early seventeenth-century China. During this period, the Ming Dynasty was in decline, but its loyal statesmen were eager to rejuvenate Confucian values. This article argues that there were various factors contributing to the favorable atmosphere around the missionary work, including the Valignano-Ricci policy, the support provided by reliable Chinese Jesuits, the friendship and brotherhood that the Jesuits formed with Chinese scholar-officials, Ming statesmen's various aspirations, and Ming China's conciliatory policy toward the Portuguese in Macau. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the representation of China in La Chine ouverte: aventures d'un Fan-Koueï dans le pays de Tsin (1845). Pretending to be an expert on China, the author provides a panorama of Chinese society in the late Qing. Yet, this is a fictional travel account, as the author did not set foot in China. Thus, its representations are based either on second-hand knowledge or imagination. Along with literary and visual representations, one finds a discourse permeated by the contemporary surge of colonialism and the insatiable curiosity of the West regarding Chinese culture, and how realism, vraisemblance , and imagination can be fraught with ideological implications and interpretations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reference services have been developed in China for nearly a century; however literature shows that very little research has been done on users' perception of reference services in Chinese academic libraries. To fill the research gap, this study aims to examine how Chinese undergraduates perceive, understand and use the reference service. A survey was employed and conducted in a comprehensive Chinese university with about 19,000 undergraduate students. 433 valid questionnaires were received. ANOVA was adopted to examine overall reference service satisfaction variation among respondents in different programs. The study reveals that library resources and reference services have been improved in China during the past twenty years, especially with the great support of Project 211 and Project 985 by the Ministry of Education of China. However, there is still more to do to change libraries from book repositories to modern user-centered information services and to improve historically underdeveloped user services in Chinese libraries. Libraries and librarians in China need to more actively embrace the philosophy that library resources are to be used and librarians are there to serve, to thoroughly promote reference services and render them more visible, and to diligently learn, adopt and apply technology to provide quality reference services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic libraries in Macao, China, began to use the term "information literacy" and to offer information literacy programs approximately three years ago. At the University of Macau, information literacy is considered important to help the honors students become junior researchers. Using the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education as the teaching guide, the University of Macau Library offered one-time research workshops to second-year honors students in 2017 and 2018. The challenges included the variety of subjects studied by the honors students, a lack of understanding of the students' information literacy skills prior to the workshop, and limited opportunities to examine the long-term learning impact. The workshop convinced the students of the importance of information literacy. Raising awareness of the importance of information literacy to the students and educators campus wide, offering workshops to one or two disciplines, and forming a university library team to create and implement a compulsory information literacy exam are recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was conducted to investigate scholars' views on the development of resources for Macao studies. The research process and method used in this study could be adopted by institutions considering a new direction for special collections or a new collection focus for a library. The key research question was how to effectively develop, preserve, and organize the Macao studies materials to provide easy access to scholars. The semi-structured interview methodology was adopted and a homogenous group of 35 researchers were interviewed. The results revealed the difficulties scholars have in locating information on the current Macao-related material along with recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A content analysis of JLSC's publications in 2007–2016 was conducted to investigate its publication patterns and research topics. Elements such as article titles, keywords, authors' affiliations, titles, disciplines, author collaboration and grant-funded projects were coded and examined. Findings indicate that libraries, information services, cataloging and classification, knowledge management and information retrieval were the most frequently discussed topics. Over 50% of the authors were LIS faculty members with librarian practitioners and LIS graduate students each representing about one-quarter of the total authorship. The percentage of case studies was not significant. Over half of the articles resulted from grant-funded projects. Collaborative writing was active. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the difficulties facing resource-sharing efforts in the Macau Special Administrative Region and introduces the best practice of a virtual library as a resource-sharing model. The origin and purpose, content, and usability of Macaudata.com are examined. The challenges it faces and its impact upon local resource sharing are studied. The article concludes that Macaudata.com marks a good start and important progress in terms of resource sharing in Macau and lays a solid foundation for developing Macau Memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers the author's insights on how to promote electronic resources in public libraries. The author says that providing a specific computer station is an important strategy to promote electronic resources. She adds that the computer must be located in the most noticeable area in the library so that library users can easily access with the computer.

The article offers the author's insights on several strategies on how to promote online language learning program. The author says that language learning programs such as French and Spanish language must be organized to allow learners to be proficient in speaking. She states that activities such as tea party are effective strategy that encourage learners to engage in the program. Moreover, implementation of contests also stimulates the interest of participants to used online language program.