Today's society is characterized by knowledge and information. With the explosion of knowledge, all kinds of information products grow geometrically, showing the trend of increasing the timeliness of knowledge information, accelerating the dissemination speed and increasing the carrier mode. Modern libraries are endowed with higher goals. It is no longer just an institution with traditional functions such as preserving culture, spreading knowledge and entertaining the public. Readers also hope that it has the function of information hub and provides high-level information value-added services. This requires today's libraries to adopt new ways and means that conform to the characteristics of the times to inherit, maintain and carry forward the original traditional functions, and at the same time undertake the new mission entrusted by the times. Under the new situation, libraries in higher vocational colleges need to clarify their roles and tasks.
1. 1 literature resources construction
The construction of literature resources in higher vocational college libraries, especially the construction of characteristic resources, should be combined with the construction of key majors, teaching and research, and characteristic education. , with accurate positioning, long-term accumulation, continuous enrichment and improvement; The collection construction should adapt to the characteristics of higher vocational education and meet the needs of cultivating high-quality, high-skilled and applied talents. Often, the teaching of professional knowledge will receive more attention, while the cultivation of high quality and high skills is easily ignored.
1.2 Effective dissemination of knowledge and information
The effective dissemination of knowledge is a bridge to transform knowledge innovation achievements into real productive forces. At present, university libraries generally pay attention to how to collect and store knowledge information, but not to how to effectively spread and use knowledge information, that is, the function of actively spreading knowledge information is not strengthened enough. In the digital information age, how to effectively transmit information and acquire effective knowledge is particularly important. When cultivating higher vocational talents, libraries in higher vocational colleges should adopt new and more effective methods to actively disseminate knowledge and information, so that students not only have professional high skills, but also have the application skills of modern information technology.
1.3 Cultural and entertainment communication function
It is particularly important for the library of higher vocational colleges to guide the all-round development of young students morally, intellectually, physically and aesthetically in a healthy, positive and effective way by using the entertainment communication function of the library. How to cultivate high-quality and highly cultivated talents through the process of cultural entertainment is more worthy of our exploration.
1.4 Information Hub Function
With the development of library modernization and the application of modern technologies such as automation, networking and digitalization, more and more readers hope that the library will play the role of information hub while collecting, processing and transmitting information. How to provide more and more convenient knowledge and information platforms for teachers and students' teaching and scientific research in higher vocational colleges' libraries is also worthy of our brave practice and exploration.
1.5 comprehensive and high-level information value-added service function
Under the trend of digital library, due to the extensive linking function of virtual library, a large amount of knowledge and information has become a disorderly large system. The traditional evaluation index based on the collection of literature resources has become the number of documents available for retrieval in the library, which makes a contradiction between the large amount of new information produced by modern technology and the needs of readers. Modern readers increasingly need systematic, professional, personalized and high-tech creative information value-added services. This part of the task is our most urgent and long-term task, which needs to be solved with great efforts and constantly improved.
2. The concept of running a library should be constantly innovated, which means the innovation of concept, system, management and service.
The rapid development of information technology has brought new challenges to library work. The new changes require us to constantly innovate the concept of running a library, but also bring new opportunities. Only by constantly updating the concept of running a library in higher vocational colleges can the library better perform its educational function and information service function in the process of talent training and education in higher vocational colleges.
2. 1 The concept of library knowledge management
At the end of the 20th century, in order to meet the requirements of knowledge economy, knowledge management theory came into being. Because of the complexity of knowledge management itself and the universality of its coverage, there are many definitions of knowledge management. However, in essence, knowledge management is a management idea with people as the center, information as the basis, knowledge innovation as the goal, and knowledge as a exploitable resource. It is an act of collecting, processing, organizing, disseminating and creatively utilizing knowledge information.
The library of higher vocational colleges should actively absorb the modern concept of "knowledge management", reshape the management concept of university libraries, and make use of the existing knowledge and information resources to sort out and integrate all kinds of information, so that all kinds of resources and knowledge can meet the people who need it most, get the most needed knowledge at the most needed time and fully realize the value of knowledge and information. [ ]
2.2 "Subject Librarian" system
In 1980s, foreign libraries began to implement the "subject librarian" system, that is, the librarian specialization system. At present, a few undergraduate university libraries in China have also implemented this "subject librarian" management system, which requires targeted collection, collation, analysis and research of subject-specific literature information, and actively provides high-level and in-depth services for readers of various disciplines. This in-depth development and utilization of knowledge and information has undoubtedly played a powerful role in promoting discipline construction and teaching and scientific research in colleges and universities.
Judging from the job responsibilities in the subject librarian system, they should be network administrators and information navigators suitable for the development of digital libraries, which requires subject librarians to have higher quality to meet the needs of networking, knowledge integration and subject specialization. This not only trains the team and cultivates the backbone, but also contributes to the sustainable development of the library.
How can the library of higher vocational colleges truly become the organizer, disseminator, navigator and educator of professional information resources in the construction of key majors and teaching and scientific research work in schools? This model of "subject librarian" system is worth learning from.
2.3 the concept of project management
The business management of the library is designed around its business process, involving all links of the whole business process, such as resource procurement, cataloging, collection, circulation, periodical management, reader service and so on. With the application of computer, the whole process of business management is solidified in the library automation system, which constitutes the central content of library management. However, with the development of digitalization and networking, the information environment of the library has changed greatly, and the traditional library business management must establish a self-learning and adaptive mechanism. The method of project management can solidify and absorb the effective practices explored as an inseparable part of enterprise management, so that enterprise management can develop and improve continuously. Project management is generally divided into four stages, namely, planning and decision-making, design and planning, implementation and control, inspection and summary. Project management is not a substitute for the original management mode, but a supplement and improvement.
2.4 Personalized service
With the development of science and technology, information production, processing, storage and transmission technologies have entered digitalization, networking and spatio-temporal, and the whole information environment has undergone fundamental changes. Under the network environment, readers measure the quality of library work in higher vocational colleges, not how many books the library has, but how much useful information the library provides and whether it can meet the individual needs of readers. Advanced network technology, abundant network resources and strong advantages of library service industry provide technical support and resource guarantee for libraries in higher vocational colleges to carry out personalized services.
Personalized service, also known as customized service, refers to the process of library interacting with readers, understanding readers' information needs and actively providing targeted information services to readers. It is highly targeted, timely, intelligent, interactive and instructive. Analyzing readers' information needs is an important prerequisite for libraries in higher vocational colleges to carry out personalized service, and establishing a model of readers' dynamic needs is an important symbol to realize personalized service. The establishment of characteristic specialty (discipline) database in our school and the realization of "system" interface of top-quality specialty are closely related to the characteristic education and development of higher vocational colleges.
3. Improve the core competitiveness of libraries in the digital age.
The core value of the library lies in the purpose of exchanging knowledge and spreading culture through the preservation and utilization of various literature resources. Since 2 1 century, the rapid development of information technology has brought severe challenges to the survival and development of libraries. In the new environment, how to improve the core competitiveness of higher vocational college libraries in the digital age is a hot topic for school library managers.
3. 1 core competitiveness theory
The theory of core competitiveness was first put forward by American economists in 1990s to improve the competitiveness of enterprises. Refers to the unique internal ability resources of enterprises, which can bring special effects to consumers and make enterprises have a long-term competitive advantage in a certain market. It is the knowledge system that distinguishes the company from its competitors and the basis of its competitiveness. Core competitiveness includes two basic elements: comparative advantage and competitive advantage. Comparative advantage is related to resources, that is, there are differences; Competitive advantage is related to the utilization of resources, emphasizing the endogenous ability of enterprises, especially the innovation ability.
3.2 the concept of library core competitiveness
The core competitiveness of the library should refer to the unique and differentiated advantages that the library can grasp and adapt to the changing trend of users' needs in time and cultivate carefully for a long time. This advantage runs through the "resources" and "services" and is reflected in the continuous innovation in the process of realizing the core values of the library.
Core competitiveness is obtained through learning and accumulation, not through market transactions. High-level core competitiveness comes from information research and development in the process of library activities, from leading management strategies and service strategies, and technical operation links provide necessary technical means and guarantees for the realization of services.
3.3 the core competitiveness of vocational college libraries
University libraries and general public libraries have different reader groups. However, higher vocational college libraries and undergraduate college libraries have different service contents because of their different orientation of talent training. How the construction and development of libraries in higher vocational colleges can truly meet the needs of the construction and development of our school, and how to perform the functions of education and information service with high quality and high level, which requires us to combine the reality and strive to improve the core competitiveness.
The promotion of the core competitiveness of higher vocational college libraries should focus on "service". We should care about readers, understand their needs, pay attention to establishing a long-term reader relationship, and strengthen this relationship by implementing a "reader-centered" strategy throughout the library to improve readers' satisfaction and loyalty. The service model can adopt different demand innovation models to meet the needs of readers with the maximum service model, such as: teaching needs, education needs, scientific research needs, training needs, entertainment needs; The core of the service theme is the cultivation and education of high-quality and high-skilled applied talents (the former should include information literacy and the latter should include the application skills of modern information technology). To achieve this service goal, it must also be guaranteed by management strategy, cultural construction and technological innovation. []