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Knowledge-sharing spaces in university libraries have gradually become a new area for college students to learn, research, and experience. How to apply them in constructing shared knowledge spaces corresponding to different emotions plays an increasing role in promoting library services and development. Taking college students as the main users, this paper gives the relationship between the physical parameters of shared space and the basic emotion of users by systematically analyzing the interaction between user sentiment and situational physical parameters. Besides, the typical emotions are represented and identified by using the tongue diagnosis technique (TDT), for the emotion of library users can be recognized by identifying their tongue color. At last, we put forward an effective method that the building and applying of the library-sharing spaces can be done based on corresponding emotion patterns of the users. The result of the college student questionnaire survey shows that this method has a good validity and feasibility which may contribute a lot to service promotion and library development in universities.

The paper examined the impact of technology variables on access to information by undergraduates in the digital libraries of federal universities in Nigeria. The study was an empirical research which adopted Ex-post-facto as the design. The questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 1,506 respondents drawn, using a multi-stage technique, from the population of 30,121 undergraduates in addition to the entire 21 library staff of seven federal universities purposively selected from southern Nigeria. Focus group discussion and interview sessions were also used to complement the questionnaire responses. Data generated were analysed using frequency and percentages. Responses from the focus group discussion and the interview were analysed qualitatively. The findings revealed that technology variables such as system usability, interface design and content usefulness make a low impact on the undergraduates’ access to information. It was recommended among others that training programs should be organised by the libraries to equip the undergraduates with the digital literacy skills required for effective access to information.

Extracurricular reading plays particular role in students’ cultivation and intellectual training in higher education. In fact, lots of students spend much spare time on readings those non-related to their majors. In this paper, we conduct a questionnaire survey on student patrons with the help of university library’s activities supporting in Xidian University. The aim of this survey is to find out the overview of extracurricular reading preference in nowadays university and the difference between undergraduate and graduate students. The data analysis provides an entrance to study the students’ learning preference. The activity procedure and analysis results in mobile Internet environment are also presented. We also propose feasible suggestions and solutions to teachers and administrators in university.

The paper presents a methodology of achieving change management in the university libraries and its application to a case study on Transilvania University Library of Brasov. The model discussed in the paper, original in many aspects, outlines two major stages determining the results of the changes upon the organization's overall performance: implementing changes from a strategic point of view and approaching change as a project. The case study includes a synthetic presentation of the library revealing changes done in the last decade and the major deficiencies associated to the changes management approach. The authors present the central priorities of the strategy elaborated by the library management for the coming years and underline the expectation of their achievement with good results, through the professional approach of the change, based on modern management methods and principles, such as team work, staff involving and leadership.

In the light of the digital library development and of the online communication development, the university education develops in its turn new educational instruments and at the students' disposal to improve their professional skills and their individual studies. The university libraries, which have traditionally been focused on supporting the scholars' needs in research, have begun to play a more active role in this changing the educational system, as a result of the Bologna process. Incorporating the new technologies in the didactic process, accessing the electronic informational resources, using the web space for communication, all these imply qualitative research so as to determine and to optimize the students' learning methods, and we see a movement in the library world of libraries actively pursuing this. However, to be able to play an active role in the students' acquiring of scholarly skills, libraries need to implement systems for uncovering the gaps in students' knowledge. We find that theories and practices from the fields of market research and marketing analysis provide a helpful perspective. In this paper we will present a system for an university library to gain knowedge about their student's needs. This consists of several parts, and we will use examples of surveys, questionnaires and structured interviews. Also, we will present an analysis of data that have been acquired as part of our collaboration in European projects between the university libraries of Brasov, Romania and Bergen, Norway