The Historical Functions Of The Public Libraries During The Process Of Informatization In China

The informatization wave swept across the whole world,the human society stepped intoan information age。Great changes have taken place in global politics,economy ,culture andso on.。China has made up and carried out its own infomatization strategy goal and policy toadapt to the national conditions。As provider and manager of information resources , thepublic libraries are conditioned by the feature of informatization process in China。Inaccordance with the characteristic of information age the public library functions in Chinadisplay a certain history phase property。How the public libraries in China that confrontedwith the chances and challenges of informatization formulate and develop their functions wasgiven increasing attention.This article begins with the discussions of the informatization connotation ,the featureand background of informatization in China。According to the status quo of the publiclibraries in China the article analyzes what informatization has impacted on the publiclibraries and explores the changes of the public library functions during the process ofinformazation in China。On this basis,the conditions of the public library functionsdevelopment in China,that is ,the internal power and social environment is discussed in thispaper。...