日本经济发达,但与欧美相比,图书馆事业显得比较落后。日本政府已注意到此问题,采取了一些补救措施,但制约着公共图书馆发展的因素依然存在。其中最主要的问题是经费不足、地区间事业发展的不平衡和读者人数的下降。早在五十年代,日本就制定了图书馆 Japan’s economy developed, but compared with Europe and the United States, the library appears to be relatively backward. The Japanese government has taken note of this issue and taken some remedial measures, but the factors that constrain the development of public libraries still exist. The main problems are the lack of funds, the imbalance in the development of inter-regional undertakings and the decline in the number of readers. As early as the fifties, Japan developed a library