一部同中国社会发展与民众生活休戚相关的图书馆事业史——评《20世纪以来中国的图书馆事业》

A History of Librarianship Related Closely to The Development of Chinese Society and People's Lives——Book Review on Chinese Librarianship in the 20^(th) Century

《20世纪以来中国的图书馆事业》一书,突破了单纯以图书馆为中心来介绍图书馆自身发展历史的做法,将20世纪以来中国的图书馆事业置于中国社会与民众生活的大环境中进行考察,从历史发展的宏观角度来描述图书馆事业的发生、发展,突出了图书馆事业在整个社会活动中的不可或缺性。从一个图书馆史研究者的角度看,该书史学视野宏大、历史分期独特,叙述方法娴熟,继承并发展了已有图书馆史研究的学术成果。

Chinese Librarianship In the 20th Century makes a breakthrough in narratation, by not mere- ly making the librarianship and its development as the center of the history, but relating them closely to the development of Chinese Society and People＇s Lives, which makes the librarianship as the indispensable part of the society. This paper recommends the book for its great historical views, special periodization, skilled narrating way, and its inherition and contribution to the study on library history.