Liu, Yan Quan. (2007, December). Macaulay Library: A Case Study of the “Library of Natural Sound”. Digital Libraries Forum. No.12.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2007, November). The eSkeletons Project：A case of simulation teaching on the Osteology. Digital Libraries Forum. No.11.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2007, October). An Analytical Review of Digital Library Projects Funded by the US SMETE NSDL. Digital Libraries Forum. No.10, p 62-75.

Liu, Yan Quan & Li, Donglai. (2007). Developing an Integrated Public Library Service in Dongguan, One of China’s Fastest Growing Cities. New Library World volume 108 issue 5/6.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2006, February). Digital Information Access in Urban/Suburban Communities,  A Survey Report of Public Digital Library Use by the Residents in Connecticut. Digital Library Perspectives International. No 2.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2005, November). Impacts and Perspectives of Digitization Practice in the US Libraries. Journal of Digital Library Forum. Vol 1, No 11.

Men, Liangsheng & Liu, Yan Quan. (2005, July). The present and future of China’s National Science and Technology Library. New Library World, Vol 106, No 7/8.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2005, February). The Impact of Digital Library Education on Digital Library Development. New Technology of Library and Information Services, 2.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2005, January). Deploying Digital Library Curricula, Build Up Top Universities. Library and Information Services, 1.  p 7.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2004). Best Practices, Standards, and Techniques for Digitizing Library Materials -A Snapshoot of Library Digitization Practice in the US. Online Information Review.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2004, January). Is the Education On Digital Libraries Adequate? New Library World. Vol 15, No 1/2. Emerald Journal, MCB UP Limited, England.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2003, August). School Education for Digital Libraries in the US. Library and Information Services. ISSN 0252-3116. No 8. pp. 5-10.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2002). Introducing an International Cooperative Research Method Employed in Cross-Country Studies in Information & Library Science. Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal. ISSN: 1089-4667. Issue No.13.

Liu, Yan Quan & Zweizig, Douglas L. (2001). The Use of the National Library Statistics by Public Library Directors. Library Quarterly. Vol 72, no 3 (October), pp.467-497. [Table of Contents at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/LQ/toc.html]

Liu, Yan Quan. (2001). Digital Library Infrastructure -- A case study on sharing information resources in China, (awarded winner's paper in the Digital Library and Information Science and Technology paper competition sponsored by ASIST), International Information and Library Review.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2001). A Comparison of Public Library Use of Statistics. New Library World / Librarians World, v102 Issue 2, (March).

Liu, Yan Quan. (2001). The use of statistics in the managerial process by public library directors in China and the US -- a cross country survey. Library Management, vol 22, no 4/5, (February).

Liu, Yan Quan and Douglas Zweizig. (2000). Public library directors' use of national public library statistics, a survey report. Public Libraries. (Mar./Apr.): 98-105.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1997). National public library statistics and management: A comparison between the United States and People's Republic of China. Library Management, 18 (n4): 189-195. (Published on the Internet on May 5, 1997).

Ma, Yan; Steven Miller and Yan-Quan Liu. (1997). Cataloging nonprint resources in the United States and China: A comparative study of organization and access for selected electronic and audiovisual resources. International Cataloging and Bibliographic Control, 26 (2): 46-49.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1997). National public library statistical systems and management: a comparison between the United States and the People's Republic of China. Asian Libraries, 6 (1/2); pp. 20-29. ISSN: 1017-6748

Liu, Yan Quan. (1996). The impact of national policy on developing information infrastructure, nationwide issues in P.R. China and the U.S.: Winner of LIBRI Best Student Paper Award 1996. Libri 4: 175-183.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1996). The impact of national policy on the development of information infrastructure: issues in China and the United States. Asian Libraries v5n1, 10-18.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1987). Public libraries on the way to reform. Outlook Weekly, No.26, June 29, 1987. Beijing.

Liu, Yan Quan. (in processing). Digital Libraries, Its Theories and Practices. Ann Arbor, Michigan: XanEdu.

Liu, Yan Quan & Xiaojun Chen. (2008). International & Comparative Studies in Library and Information Science, a Focus of the US and Asian Counties. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.

Liu, Yan Quan and Xiaohui Zheng. (2001). Case Studies on Electronic Information Resources Sharing in the US and China. In Chen, Ching-chin, (2001, Editor). Global Digital Library Development in the New Millennium, Fertile Ground for Distributed Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration. Beijing, Tsinghua University Press. pp. 515-516.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1989). Foundation of Information Science Theory. Beijing: Peili University.

Liu, Yan Quan; Zhenxi Bao; et al. (1989). China Public Libraries (CPL). Beijing, People's Publishing House, 1986.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1989). Survey on development of public librarianship in China. Encyclopedic Yearbook of China. Shanghai: Encyclopedic Yearbook of China.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1988). Development of public librarianship in China. Encyclopedic Yearbook of China. Shanghai: Encyclopedic Yearbook of China.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1988). Sight-seeing the new building of national library of China. Shukan Diao Bao. Wuhan: Shukan Diao Bao Publishing House.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1987). Survey on the development of public librarianship in China. Encyclopedic Yearbook of China. Shanghai: Encyclopedic Yearbook of China.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1986). Survey on the development of public librarianship in China. Encyclopedic Yearbook of China. Shanghai: Encyclopedic Yearbook of China.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1986). An outline of library service in China. Knowledge Handbook of China, Chapter 22. Beijing: Social Science Publishing House.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1985). Survey on the development of public librarianship in China. Encyclopedic Yearbook of China. Shanghai: Encyclopedic Yearbook of China.

Liu, Yan Quan; Craig Martin; Eileen Roehl; and Zhixian Li. (2004). A Survey Report of Urban/Suburban Residents Using Public Library Digital Resources. Proceedings of (Urban & Regional Information Systems Association) URISA’ 42nd Annual Conference on November 7-10, 2004, Reno Hilton-Reno, Nevada http://www.urisa.org/annual.htm 

Liu, Yan Quan. (2004). “Best Practices, Tools and Technologies Use in Digitizing Library Materials”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL 2004) on February 23-27, 2004 in India.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2003). “Where Does Professional Education Lead Our New Librarians.” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) on December 23-26, 2003 in Malaysia. The conference program information can be retrieved at http://ICADL2003.mimos.my/.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2003). “Digital Library Infrastructural, Rethinking Its Models” Proceedings of Symposium on the Libraries' Sustainable Development & Innovation, Invited paper at Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on December 20-23, 2003 in Beijing, China.

Liu, Yan Quan. (2001). Collaborative Efforts on Cross-Country Studies of Information Sharing Infrastructure between China and the US-- Introducing an International Cooperative Research Method. Proceedings of the the 67th IFLA 2001 Conference on August 22, 2001 in Boston, USA. [Full text at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla67/papers/122-165e.pdf]

Liu, Yan Quan. (1996). The impact of national policy on developing information infrastructure, nationwide issues in P.R. China and the U.S. Chinese Librarianship: An International Electronic Journal. Issue No. 1. (Published by Internet Chinese Librarians Club. CLIEJ web page: http://library.fgcu.edu/iclc/cliej/ 

Liu, Yan Quan. (1987). New faces of public libraries work in cities. Library and Reader, No. 2-3. Wuhan. Wuhan Library Publishers.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1986). Hastening the development of library services in China. Beijing Daily, January 13. Beijing.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1986). The structure of library networks in big cities. Library Research and Work. No.1. Tianjing: Library Research and Work Publishing House.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1986). A new way of public library services for developing economics of the countryside. Academic Magazines in Library Science n.1. Shenyang: Academic Magazines in Library Science Publishing House; China Culture, March 22, 1987. Beijing, China Culture Publishing House.

Liu, Yan Quan. (1986). Probe into the scanty funds in purchasing materials for public libraries. Research in Library Science n2. Jilin, Researches in Library Science Publishing House, China Culture, June 25. Beijing: China Culture Publishing House.