this article attempts to apply the strategic management theory to the subsequent shaping up of a readjusted strategic development policy for shanghai library after its merger with the institute of scientific and technological information of shanghai (istis) in 1995. it also tries to analyze and explicate such an empirical implementation of institutional reintegration process through strategic management at shanghai metropolitan library. by doing so, it aims to present an objective case study of activities based on the strategic management paradigm at a major chinese metropolitan public library.