1932年“一·二八”事变中，当时上海最大的公共图书馆—东方图书馆，以及江湾、吴淞一带公立私立大学和私家所藏图籍，几乎全部毁于日寇的侵略炮火，激起全国民众的极大愤慨。同年6月，上海一批文化教育界的爱国人士联合工商界、政界有识之士，发起筹建上海图书馆。一份相关的 In the Incident of January 28, 1932, when the Eastern Library, the largest public library in Shanghai, and public private universities in Jiangwan and Wusong, and the privately owned Tibetan books, were almost destroyed by the Japanese invaders, they provoked National indignation. In June of the same year, a group of patriots from a batch of cultural and educational circles in Shanghai united with business people and politicians of the political circles to launch the preparation of the Shanghai Library. A related