A Study Of Fundamental Issues On The Legislation Of The Public Library Law In China

The Traffic Regulations of Capital Library and Libraries of Provinces issuedby1910is the first nationwide public library law in modern history of our country.But the public library cause in our country had not developed rapidly because ofwars. Since founding for60years, Especially after the Reform and Opening-up,The public library cause in our country had developed rapidly. But compared withthe developed countries, Our public library cause is not balanced, Personalstructure is not reasonable, The low level of service quality, The governmentinvested and supervision is not enough. People realize that the main reason fordeveloping slowly of our public library cause is the legal guarantee. The libraryand legal professionals actively engaged in public library legislation. The NPCStanding Committee announced the Public Library Low legislative workofficially started in November2008. This is a great chance for changing thepublic library current situation of China. Perfecting the legal system of publiclibrary.So far, our country’s public library law legislation is still in the preparatorystage of legislation, the research on public library law legislation foundationmakes support for designing of system framework. The specific research contentsare as follows:(1) The public library legislation process of main foreign countries. Itintroduces the public library law legislation’s process and legal content of USABritain and Japanese in detail, makes a comparison to identify the similarities anddifferences, summarizes the experience at last.(2) The historical basis of our country’s public library law. It makes aintroduction about the legislation thought and legislative process of public libraryin late Qing Dynasty and modern china. Summarizes the historical significance ofmodern china’s public library legislation.(3) The social basis of public library legislation in our country. It analysesthe influence about china’s economic development on legislation of public library.at the same time, it also introduces the development of our public library and themain problems existed, points out the necessity of public library legislation.(4) The jurisprudence basis of public library legislation in our country. Itintroduces the constitutional basis of public library legislation and National policyand the rules about public library had been issued in some areas.(5) Some suggestions about public library legislation in our country. Weshould learn from some foreign countries, base on our actual situation, putforward some problems that should be paid attention to.