目前国际上主流的看法是,二十一世纪的经济必然是一种依赖于知识和信息的产业,扩散和应用型的“知识经济”。图书馆是重要的信息源,多年来大量的馆藏图书、期刊、报纸等文献及音像资料都是宝贵的原始信息,是社会上任何其它单位和部门所不具有的优势。图书馆要立足这一优势,开发和利用 At present, the mainstream view in the world is that the economy of the 21st century must be an industrial, diffusion and applied “knowledge-based economy” that depends on knowledge and information. Libraries are an important source of information. For many years, a large number of books, periodicals, newspapers and other documents and audiovisual materials have become precious sources of information and are of no advantage to any other unit or department in the society. Library should base itself on this advantage and develop and utilize it