美国的慈善事业与图书馆

American Philanthropy and Libraries

安德鲁·卡耐基与比尔·盖茨等慈善家对图书馆的大力捐赠,不仅对美国,而且对世界图书馆事业产生了深远的影响。美国图书馆能够得到慈善事业的关注,不仅是因为美国坚实的经济基础、社会的公益传统及独有的社会价值观,更取决于美国的制度建设及其社会教育的发展。

Charitable donations of Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates had a profound impact not only to the United States but also for the librarianship in the world. American libraries could be concerned by the philanthropy not only because American solid economic foundation, the social welfare tradition and the social values, but also because American institutional construction and the development of the social education.