Abstract:

The paper did a deep investigation on 10 American university libraries about the subject librarians, library guides (including subject guides and course guides), data management and service (including data statistics & analysis and research data management), searching tools, and library academic communities. Based on this the features of university library subjectoriented service were summarized as four aspects: searching tools, guides, data and community. It is found that the above four aspects could be improved for university libraries to deepen their subjectoriented service. It is important to establish resource discovery system, optimize subject guides and course guides, provide service on data search and analysis, and build virtual and physical academic community.

Key words: University library, Subject-oriented service, Searching tool, Subject guides, Data analysis service, Academic community