Social inclusion and social capital of the Shanghai Library as a community place for self-improvement Available to Purchase

Dr Patrick Lo is currently serving as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Library, Information & Media Science, the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He earned his Doctor of Education Degree from the University of Bristol, UK, and has a Master of Arts in Design Management Degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Master of Library & Information Science from McGill University, Canada, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Mount Allison University, Canada. He also took part in a one-year academic exchange at the University of Tübingen in Germany from 1990 to 1991. He is efficient in Chinese (both Cantonese and Putonghua), English and German. Dr Patrick Lo has presented about 200 research papers and project reports focusing on librarianship, humanities and education at different local and international workgroup meetings, seminars, conferences, etc., including: Mainland China, Macau, Hong Kong, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Turkey, the USA and Sweden, and at institutions including the Library of Congress, USA; Austrian National Library, Vienna; University of Vienna, National Library of France, Paris; National Institute of Informatics, Japan; Konrad-Zuse-Center for Information Technology, Berlin, etc. His research interests and areas of specialty include: comparative studies in library and information science (LIS); art and design librarianship and information literacy.

Minying He served as Research Assistant at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.

Yan Liu served as the Reader Services Librarian at Shanghai Library.