Inheritance and Innovation: Local History Collections in Academy Library

Abstract

Library of Fudan University is currently trying to preserve the local history and make the special collections actively used by schools and communities at the same time. Through two case studies, we try to discuss 1) help the community to collect and inherit local culture, 2) make full use of the 100 kinds of materials about social life from over 20 different provinces and cities we’ve collected, to carry out more academic research through the Coalition for the scholars all over the world. And Fudan will further upgrade the contents and multilingual pages, as well as digital database construction. It will contribute to the development of history, sociology, politics, anthropology and other disciplines.