我国公共图书馆事业,与欧美比较,起步较迟,到现在仅有一百余年历史。据史料记载,我国最早的公共图书馆,在清末时,就有南、北两大图书馆。北方是京师图书馆,也就是北京图书馆的前身。南方是江南图书馆,也就是南京图书馆的前身。如果以开放时间算起,江南图书馆要比京师图书馆略早一两年。 The public library in our country has started relatively lately with Europe and the United States. It has only a hundred years of history. According to historical records, China’s earliest public library, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there are two major libraries, south and north. The north is the capital library, which is the predecessor of the Beijing Library. South is the southern library, which is the predecessor of the Nanjing Library. If you count the opening hours, Jiangnan Library slightly earlier than the capital library a year or two.