What is the nature and function of the library?

The role of the library The library is a scientific, cultural, educational and scientific research institution specialized in collecting, sorting, preserving, disseminating and utilizing documents. Literature is the material basis for the library to carry out all its work. On the role of libraries, or the social functions of libraries, IFLA held a scientific seminar on library functions in Lyon, France in 1975, and agreed that there are four main types: (1) preserving human cultural heritage. The appearance of library is the need of preserving human cultural heritage. With the library, the experience, culture and knowledge gained by human social practice can be systematically preserved and handed down, which has become a valuable cultural heritage and spiritual wealth of human beings today. . (2) carry out social education. In modern times, the emergence of large-scale capitalist industries requires workers to have more labor knowledge and skills, so that libraries can really enter the common people and undertake the task of educating workers in scientific knowledge and culture. In modern society, the library has become the base of continuing education and lifelong education, and has undertaken more educational functions. (3) transmitting scientific information. Transmitting scientific information is an important function of modern libraries. Rich, systematic and comprehensive library information materials have become the material conditions for libraries to engage in scientific information dissemination. In the information society, the scientific information function of the library will be strengthened. (4) Developing intellectual resources. The books and materials collected in the library are a kind of intellectual resources accumulated by human beings for a long time. The processing of these resources by the library is the development of this kind of intellectual resources. At the same time, the library provides these books for use, which is to develop the intellectual resources of library users. In other words, the library undertakes the function of cultivating talents. In addition, as a cultural and educational institution, the library also provides people with the fifth function: (5) providing cultural entertainment. The service of the library meets the social demand for culture and entertainment, enriches and enlivens people's cultural life and plays an indelible role in the construction of spiritual civilization. What is the role of library in the process of social informatization? Talking about the challenge of information technology and computer network to libraries is not a new term, but now I really don't think this is an academic discussion. The challenge of social informatization to libraries has really come. The main merchant of the original library was Xinhua Bookstore. With the development of information technology and network, merchants began to enter the library field from the aspects of material basis, equipment and technology. Traditional other information service institutions have not had a great impact on the library because of their different service objects and emphases. Modern information service institutions are different now, which can be said to have entered the field of libraries in an all-round way. Merchants began to compete with the library for readers (customers) resources, and the library became the middle bridge for merchants. They hope to expand their business space and attract more customers on the basis of information technology and traditional library business. They not only process and sort out the literature information in the traditional library business, but also carry out the digital conversion of traditional library collections, the introduction of large-scale digital resources, the excavation and organization of network information resources and the integration of information resources. They use advanced information technology and advanced management mode to improve information utilization, shorten users' response time, and save users' time through convenient and quick information utilization. Their slogan is to establish knowledge network, knowledge center, knowledge positioning and information-oriented integrated management. There are many such enterprises, some of which have great influence in Wan Fang. Established a scientific and technological information subsystem (360,000 dissertations, 400,000 conference papers, more than 6,543.8+0.7 million patents, 9.6 million scientific and technological documents recorded in more than 40 databases, 6,543.8+0.4 million policies and regulations, more than 200,000 Chinese and foreign standards 6,543.8+0.6 databases, more than 200,000 enterprise, company and product information, and a daily digital periodical subsystem. At present, it has 800,000 kinds of books, including 22 categories of China Library Classification, and has the digital processing capacity of 1 0,000 kinds of books every day. Its software platform has the functions of publishing, searching, managing, collecting, making, etc., and the daily visits reach more than 20 million pages. Scholars' home digital library. It doesn't have the most digital resources now, but it has established an intelligent interface and full-text retrieval with the library automation management system. Now, his digital library system has cooperated with Beijing Normal University and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, passed the appraisal of scientific and technological achievements, and obtained the special government fund supported by the National Innovation Fund. China hownet digital library. It is a Chinese knowledge infrastructure project built by Tsinghua Tongfang. It is a national large-scale information project and a commercial operation mode. Customers are all over the world. Academy book industry group. Distribution and processing of books. They are now in the development period, and the relative cost is relatively high. As an important customer resource, the library is the time for them to absorb nutrition. We don't exclude new things, but use them more. It is not difficult for them to develop individual users when they grow up. Like a superstar, customers are the foundation, and without customers, there is no soil for survival. A library like ours, due to various reasons such as the system, has its position in the school.