《20世纪中国图书馆学文库》的出版用吴慰慈先生的话来讲就是“温故知新思未来”。20世纪的图书馆学著作,不仅民国时期的,即使是1980年以前出版的,都很难买到。因此,国家图书馆出版社和北京人天书店有限公司开始策划出版一套关于20世纪图书馆学丛书的事宜,以保存图书馆学专业学术文献; The publication of “20th Century Chinese Library Science Library” is a phrase used by Mr. Wu Weixi to describe “the future of the new thinking”. Twentieth century library works, not only during the Republican period, even published in 1980, are difficult to buy. Therefore, the National Library Press and Beijinrentian Bookstore Co., Ltd. began to plan and publish a set of books on the 20th century library issues in order to preserve the academic literature of library science;