黄宗忠同志在《试论我国图书馆事业如何走出“低谷”(见《图书情报知识》1989年第2期,以下简称“黄文”)一文中,提出了当前我国图书馆事业陷入“低谷”的观点,我认为是比较合乎我国图书馆事业的现状的。但是,对于是什么原因造成了我国图书馆事业陷入“低谷”,我觉得“黄文”的分析值得商榷。辩证唯物主义认为,事物发展变化的根本原因,不是在事物的外部,而是在其内部。我国图书馆事业陷入“低谷”的根本原因,应在于我国图书馆内部,而不是来自于其它社会因素。然而黄文却 In his article “On How Librarianship in China Strives out of the Trough” (see “Knowledge of Librarianship” No. 2, 1989, hereinafter referred to as “Huang Wen”), Comrade Huang Zongzhong proposed that the current cause of libraries in our country fall into a “trough” Point of view, I think it is more in line with the status of China’s library business. However, for what causes the cause of our library into a “trough”, I think “Huang Wen” analysis is debatable. Dialectical materialism holds that the fundamental reason for the development and change of things is not external to things but internal. The fundamental reason why our library undertakes the “trough” lies in the interior of our country’s library rather than from other social factors. However Huang Wen is