The low prioritizing of user service is a longstanding problem in Chinese academic libraries. While acknowledging various external and internal obstacles for this problem, this article argues that traditional library culture, as demonstrated throughout the article, constitutes the root cause for the underdevelopment of user services on information accessibility in Chinese academic libraries.
}, year = {2004}, journal = {Journal of Academic Librarianship}, volume = {30}, pages = {109-15}, note = {Includes discussion of early imperial and private libraries as antecedents for practices in modern Chinese academic libraries.
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