The Research On Shandong's Public Library Enterprise In Ten Yeas Before Anti-Japanese War (1928-1937)

The enterprise of books collection had a long time in ancient China, and it developed to the peak in traditional way in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the end of Qing Dynasty, the libraries in new form were passed into China from the West and developed slowly. At the same time, the traditional books collection began to collapse. The new libraries had a lot of advantage which the traditional ones did not have and took the place of the traditional ones at last. Therefore, the appearance, development and the brilliant success of new libraries must be attached importance. Because Shangdong's public library enterprise contained the variety of traits which the whole national ones had, we can attain a conclusion about the development status of the national library enterprise from the research on Shandong's.The public libraries researched in this essay means a concourse collecting many kinds of document in a certain order, opened freely for people without any discrimination in class, wealth and culture level, pooling the thought, culture and education into a whole. It contains much content such as quality, rang, organizing, books collection, assorting, reader service, construction environment and so on.Under the affluence of national policy and social development, two kinds of libraries appeared in Shandong in ten years before Anti- Japanese War, public library and books department attached to Shandong's Concourse for Demos Education. The former appeared before the construction of the Public of China and had an incessant development and went to the summit before Anti-Japanese War. The latter was a fruit of the social education policy after the construction of Kuomintang government in Nanjing.Before Anti-Japanese War, Shandong's library enterprise was at the head in China in terms of structure, the quality of books, the level of the reader service and books assorted and the construction environment. The Library Established by Shandong Province attained brilliant success because of the corporating endeavor of the local government and the elites in the library realm. It went to a advantaged level in books assorted, local document collection and library science. The books department attached to Shandong's Concourse for Demos Education founded the children libraries and permitted to read in the evening, which was a meaningful precedent in the history of Shandong library enterprise. At the same time, the books department attached to Shandong's Concourse for Demos Education and the libraries founded in the cities and towns in Shandong also got an outstanding success in the terms of the quality of libraries and money used for libraries.Many reasons accounted for the brilliant success of Shandong's library enterprise, for instance, the steady economic basis, relatively stable circumstance, the education development, school libraries progress, the help from the government and the request for social live. The research for the reasons why Shandong's public library enterprise got so brilliant success will help us understand the history and find the reasons, which will avoid mistakes arising and be benefit for our modern public library enterprise.Although Shandong's public library enterprise got a brilliant success, there were a lot of shortcoming and disadvantage, which prevented the public library enterprise from an increasingly great progress. The research on the shortcoming and disadvantage can help us understand the development of Shandong's public library enterprise much better.