1　知识经济对图书馆的影响2 1世纪人类将进入以知识信息的生产、分配和使用为基础的知识经济时代。知识经济实际上是“科学技术是第一生产力”的经济 ,是充分知识化的社会中发展的经济 ,以知识为基础和经济高速度增长带来的是社会的持续发展。知识经济与物质经济存在着巨大的 THE INFLUENCE OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY ON THE LIBRARY 2 Human beings in the first century will enter a knowledge-based economy based on the production, distribution and use of knowledge and information. The knowledge-based economy is actually an economy in which “science and technology are the primary productive forces” and the economy that is developing in a fully-educated society. The rapid development of economy based on knowledge and high-speed economic growth is the result of sustained social development. Knowledge economy and material economy exist huge