我国图书馆事业高质量发展的三大挑战

Three Challenges to the High-Quality Development of China’s Librarianship

改革开放40年来,尤其是进入21世纪以来,我国图书馆事业进入快速发展轨道。不少硬件指标都已达到或接近国际先进水平,但以高质量为标志的新发展环境和以数字化为主导的新技术环境为图书馆事业新一轮发展提出了新要求。本文从图书馆与技术之间的关系出发,结合图书馆界近50年内的3次大讨论,从技术适应图书馆到图书馆适应技术、从服务馆内读者到回应社会发展需求、从注重本地发展到拓展全球视野3个方面,提出我国图书馆事业高质量发展的3个同步:与技术发展同步、与社会发展同步、与全球专业发展同步的课题。最后提出需要攻克的三大课题:第一,提高本地馆藏和专题资源的能见度,让这些资源置于可访问、可分享的状态,并成为馆际通联的全球共享知识库的组成部分。第二,融入信息通信技术发展的大环境,适应读者和用户熟悉的信息使用习惯,让基于无数图书馆的全球共享知识库成为社会信息资源体系中的组成部分。第三,虚心向国外同行学习的同时,也要发挥自己的专业优势,在提升我国在全球图书馆专业发展的话语权上下功夫。

In the past 40 years of reform and opening-up,especially since the beginning of the 21st century,China’s librarianship has got into a stage of rapid development.Many hardware indicators have reached or approached the international advanced level,but the new development environment marked by high-quality and the new technology environment led by digitization put forward new requirements for the new round of development of the librarianship.Based on the relationship between library and technology,combined with three important discussions in the field of library in the past 50 years,namely,from“technology adapting to library”to“library adapting to technology”,from“serving readers in library”to“responding to the needs of social development”,and from“focusing on local development to expanding global vision”,this paper proposes three synchronization topics of high-quality development of China’s librarianship:synchronization with technological development,synchronization with social development,and synchronization with global professional development.Finally,three issues that need to be tackled are put forward.Firstly,we should improve the visibility of local collections and thematic resources,making these resources accessible and shareable,and becoming part of the library-interconnected global shared repository.Secondly,librarianship development should be integrated into the general development environment of information and communication technology,adapting to the information usage habits of readers and users,and making the global shared repository based on numerous libraries be part of the social information resource system.Thirdly,while learning from foreign counterparts with an open mind,we should make full use of our advantages and work hard to improve our voice in the development of global librarianship.