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A Transition to Hybrid Library: Practice in Shanghai Library - Wu Jianzhong Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, I am honored be invited to speak here. Thank you for giving me such a good opportunity. On the one hand I can gain from this seminar a new inspiration, and on the other hand, take this opportunity to sort out ideas. The title of my report is: A Transition to Hybrid Library: Practice in Shanghai Library. The Shanghai Library and Institute of Science and Technology Information of Shanghai (ISTIS) were merged in 1995. Since then, the Shanghai Library has been exploring new development models. The new organization has presented a new public image with new technology and open services. In 1996 we began to use a windows-based automatic library management system, which was the first in the library community in China, and among the first in the world. The automatically operated CD-ROM tower was the hot spot for visitors to the new library building then. Another example is the open service. In the Shanghai Library, there were 1 million books on the open-shelf, which at the time was considered a very bold move, when the popular model was semi-open-shelf or open-shelf for a small amount of the collection. Since then, the Shanghai Library has not closed its door for a single day. Even during the SARS epidemical period, we still made sure that the library was open everyday. As one of the 10 new cultural facilities in Shanghai at that time, the new library building demonstrated a good image for the city. Entering the new century, the Shanghai Library is committed to intensive development, focusing on enhancing the quality of services from the aspects of depth and breadth. Today, the library is in the transitional period from print materials as the center of development to the digital materials as the center of development. In the period of print materials as the main body, we carried out open and innovative services to the maximum. We have not only ensured opening