Foundation of Library and Information Science; Information inequality
1984-1987 East China Normal University，MA
1992-1996 Loughborough University，PhD
1989-1992 Lectuer, Nankai University
1997-1997 Research Officer UK Office of Library Networking
1998-2000 Post-doctoral Research Associate Loughborough University, UK
2000- 2005 Associate Professor, Nankai University
2005- Professor, Nankai University
Editing Board Member of Journal of Library Science in China.
Yu, Liangzhi and Yu, Binbin (2013) The Top-Down Approach to Providing ICT Access to Rural Communities in China: Opportunities for Community Informatics, Library Trends, 62(1): 34-62
Yu, Liangzhi (2012) Towards a reconceptualization of the “information worlds of individuals. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. 44(1)
Yu, Liangzhi (2011) The Divided views of the information and digital divides: A call for integrated theories for information inequality. Journal of Information Science. 37(6): 660-679.
Clarke, C.; Yu, Liangzhi, Lu Fu and Yu, C. (2011) How far can we go in ensuring equality of access to public library services? Services? The Re-Visitation of a Core Professional Value in the Context of Regional and Urban-Rural Inequalities in China. Libri, Vol. 61, No.1: 23-36
Yu, Liangzhi. (2010) How poor informationally are the information poor? Evidence from an empirical study of daily and regular information practices of individuals. Journal of Documentation 66, 6, 906-933
Zhang, Yao and Yu, Liangzhi. (2009) Information for social and economic participation: A review of related research on the information needs and acquisition of rural Chinese. The International Information & Library Review 41, 63-70
Yu, Liangzhi et al.(2008) An Epistemological Critique of Gap Theory Based Library Assessment: The Case of SERVQUAL. Journal of Documentation 64(4): 511-551
Yu, Liangzhi (2006) Understanding the Information Inequality: Making sense of the literature on information and digital divide. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 38 (4): 229-252
Yu, Liangzhi and Xu,Jianye (2006) The political economy of public library development in post-1978 People’s Republic of China. Libri 56 (2), 117-132
Ministry of Education Funded Project “Information inequality and information poverty of urban Chinese", 2001-2003.
National Office for Philosophy and Socience Sciences “Sustianable Development of Public Libraries in China”, 2001-2003
National Office for Philosophy and Socience Sciences "Role setting of county-level public libraries in the context of Socialist New Countryside"， 2006-2008
National Sciencde Foundation "The Integrative Approach towards Information Poverty and Anti-information Poverty", 2007-2009
Introduction to Library and Information Science; Ethics for information professionals; Library management and development; Philosophical thoughts in contemporary Library and Information Science