This book makes an overall and systematic sort-out and summary of the forms and features of and the ways to retrieve information resources as well as dissertation and book resources. It systematically introduces knowledge related to the history of books and libraries, provides plenty of reference information resources including books, journals, newspapers and websites, and in consideration of the unique situation of the discipline Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL), makes a specific review of international students and the retrieval of TCFL subject resources. This book is highly practical. It can be used in a selective course or as an academic monograph about literature and information resources.

Ms. Liu Li, born in 1978, has earned her master’s degree from the School of Information Resource Management of Renmin University of China. Her research focuses on Reference Service and Readers’ Education, Organization and Utilization of Data, etc. Ms. Liu has published papers such as “A Study on the Information Literacy Education Oriented Towards International Students in China” and “A Study on the Construction of a Full-Text Database of International Students’ Dissertations”.