国外最早的图书馆立法，是英国于１８５０年颁布的公共图书馆法。此后，西方工业化国家根据各自的国情，先后开展了图书馆立法活动。在这些国家中，图书馆事业发展到今天的规模与水平．一方面固然是因为有坚实的经济基础和长期积累的结果，但图书馆法为之提供的资金、技术、人? The earliest foreign library legislation, the United Kingdom enacted in 1850 the public library law. Since then, the western industrialized countries have carried out library legislative activities according to their respective national conditions. In these countries, the library business has grown to the scale and level of today. On the one hand, it is because of the solid economic foundation and the long-term accumulation of results. However, the funds, technologies and people provided by the Library Law for it?