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A library\u2010applied context\u2010aware system could recognize users entering the library and provide optimal services tailored to each situation for both new and existing users. In addition, the context\u2010awareness\u2010based library could provide context\u2010awareness\u2010based reference services, context\u2010awareness\u2010based loan services, and cater to other user needs in the stacks, research space, and a variety of other information spaces. The context\u2010awareness\u2010based library could also recognize users in need of emergency assistance by detecting the user's behavior, movement path, and temperature, etc. Comfort or climate\u2010control services could provide the user with control of the temperature, humidity, illumination and other environmental elements to fit the circumstances of users, books, and instruments through context\u2010aware technology.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>Next\u2010generation digital libraries apply new concepts such as semantic retrieval, real\u2010time web, cloud computing, mobile web, linked data, and context\u2010awareness. Context\u2010awareness\u2010based libraries can provide applied context\u2010awareness access service, reactive space according to the user's access, applied context\u2010awareness lobbies, applied context\u2010awareness reference services, and applied context\u2010awareness safety services, context\u2010awareness\u2010based comfort services and so on.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>Real instances of libraries applying context\u2010aware technology are few, according to the investigative results of this study. 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