Study On Recommended Bibliography's Culture Character

Reading is one of the important ways for people to gain information and knowledge, and further more the impetus to promote our society and civilization. The recommended bibliography is an important assistant tool in reading choice. The recommended bibliography originates from the situation that a large number of materials and books emerge and people have different tastes for reading materials. It was firstly an outcome of a certain education system and then developed into a kind of teaching guide when combined with bibliography. As time passing by, the recommended bibliography enriches and develops and becomes an essential component of reading activities of the whole society. The recommended bibliography for readers cannot only guide them to read but also can inspire their passion towards reading. A famous writer Zi Min from Taiwan comments: "the recommended bibliography can trigger people to read and promote them to love books. People who often read the recommended bibliography will sooner or later become book lovers." This paper, on the ground of bibliography and social civilization, discusses the recommended bibliography origination and its civilization functions, and analyzes its values and trends of development. This paper is made up by five major parts, which concentrate on definitions of guiding bibliography, influential bibliography and researching bibliography.The first part discusses some related theories of recommended bibliography. It gives a chronological account of histories, features and frameworks of making recommended bibliography.The second part analyzes significances and characteristics of guiding bibliography, influential bibliography and researching bibliography, and introduces three major civilization functions of recommended bibliography.The third part explores how the recommended bibliography is influenced by readers, selector and communications. In this part, the differences of the recommended bibliography and book comments are also stated.The forth part introduces some practical cases of the recommended bibliography.The fifth part prospects the trends of development of the recommended bibliography, and advises that s the recommended bibliography should develop parallel in micro and macro ways. On micro layer, the recommended bibliography can take in more contents and adopt more styles; on macro layer, the recommended bibliography should be enlarged and develops into a reading guiding system of the society.