Research on the University Library Alliance of China

With the development of China’s society and economy, especially entering the 21st century, the Chinese university library alliances (CULA) have made great progress, not only have built the China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS), China Academic Social Sciences and Humanities Library (CASHL) such as national alliance organizations, but large-scale regional alliances in various provinces have also been established, and “Opening-up, Co-construction and Sharing” (OCS) has become the strong voice of the cooperation. The construction of CULA has gone through the stage of networking and digitization. With the continuous emergence of new information technologies, whether to use cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things, blockchain and other technologies to meet the increasingly professional, intelligent and personalized needs of readers is an important issue. It can be said that the development of CULA has reached an important stage where they can use emerging technologies to realize its own transformation and upgrading. This article will adopt the method of case analysis to study the construction ideas (CI), organizational structure (OS), and operation methods (OM) of the CULA.