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前言作为一个西方学者,我决不自诩为中国史学家,我这里追述30年代中国图书馆界在国际图联的活动试图说明,中国在国际图联的早期活动与其目前和未来的事业有着密切的联系,即中国专家在50年前提出的许多观点,至今仍然实用。这并非是说,我们目前的工作一无是处,而只是说,我们肩负着完成前人未竟事业的责任。1981年,中华人民共和国恢复了在国际图书馆联合会会员的合法席位,这是鼓舞人心的大事。事实证明,中国会员在国际舞台上是非常有影响力的。国际图联已决定,1996年的国际图联年会将在中华人民共和国召开。我借此告诉中国读者的是,早在50年前,中国图书馆界的组织——中华图书馆协会就已经担负了国际事务,她成为国际图联的15个发起国之一。这个具有2000余年图书馆历史的民族于1925年就
Foreword As a Western scholar, I will never go all out to be a Chinese historian. I am here to reclaim the activities of the Chinese library community in the 1930s at IFLA trying to show that China’s early activities in IFLA are closely related to its present and future undertakings The linkages that many Chinese experts put forward 50 years ago are still valid today. This is not to say that our present work does nothing but merely means that we shoulder the responsibility of accomplishing the unfinished business of our predecessors. In 1981, the People’s Republic of China resumed its legal seat as a member of the International Federation of Library Associations, which is an inspiring event. Facts have proved that Chinese members are very influential in the international arena. IFLA has decided that the 1996 IFLA annual meeting will be held in the People’s Republic of China. I would like to tell Chinese readers that as early as 50 years ago, the Chinese library community, the Chinese Library Association, had taken on international affairs and became one of the 15 initiators of IFLA. This nation of over 2,000 years of library history was in 1925