以书为师,因业成缘——国立北平图书馆学人群体研究述略

A Summary of Scholar Group Study of Peiping National Library

1909年至1949年的国立北平图书馆(含京师图书馆、北平北海图书馆)构成了20世纪一个独特的"精英思想世界",在这个精英思想世界里,涌现了大量的专家学者,形成了一个奇异的人才井喷现象。加强对该馆学人群体的研究,不但有利于丰富民国图书馆史的研究,还可为当下的图书馆员创新能力建设提供借鉴。本课题拟采用社会学的"小群体"等理论对该群体进行研究,并基于管理学中的"美第奇效应"等理论来分析该馆人才荟萃的原因,将重点探讨:群体形成、发展和演变的社会历史背景;群体的来源、构成、社会声望与基本特征;群体的学术交流、著述出版和成才机制;群体在图书馆的转型变革中对民国学术发展的贡献和影响等问题。

From 1909 to 1949, Peiping National Library （including the National Peking Library, Metropolitan Library） constituted a unique “elite thought world” in the 20th century. In this elite world, the emergence of a large number of experts and scholars formed a splendid phenomenon. The study of the scholar group in the library will not only help enrich the research of library history of the republic of China, but also provide references for the innovation capacity of librarians. The researchers will adopt the sociological “small group” theory to study the group and analyzes the reasons for the talent gathering in this library based on the “Medici Effect” in management feld etc. The study focuses on the following topics： the social historical background of formation, development and evolution of this group; the source, composition, social prestige and basic characteristics of the group; the academic exchange of the group, the publication and the mechanism for success; the contribution and infuence of this group on the academic development of the republic of China in the transformation of the libraries etc.