The Comparative Study On The Financial Appropriation Of Public Libraries Between China And America

The rapid development of economic and material basis of more than 30 years in our country,drive up the broad masses people's growing spiritual and cultural needs.People desire to get supplies of all kinds of knowledge at the same time in the material life of abundance,in order to enrich the spiritual world.In any country in the world,the public library as the center of dissemination of knowledge,information and mental energy,can meet the spiritual needs of the masses of people to a great degree.So it appears particularly important that make ensure every country's public library development and services level keep up with the pace of public demand.In China,nearly two years,to promote public cultural services to high level of development has become a hot topic of our national policy.The government successively formulated and issued many new policies in the field of public cultural services.For the first time in 2015 work report of the State Council,Premier Li Keqiang made "advocating nationwide reading,building a scholarly society" into the governments' main task.And in the "13th Five-Year" plan,"advocating nationwide reading" upgrades to "promoting national reading",and put it into the major cultural projects.Thus our country attaches great importance to the construction and development of the public library.At present,the fund supply mechanism of public libraries in our country is unsound,guaranteeing strength is obviously inadequate.When it comes to providing funding,local governments often can't ensure the fund reasonable,stable and sufficient,which seriously hindered the supply of public library services.At this time,using the preponderant experienced practices of America will help for making the problems in aspects of the current financial appropriation clear,and will help to make improvement practice institutionalized.This has important practical significance for establishing perfect fiscal funds guarantee mechanism.This essay takes the current situation comparison of China and America as the starting and breakthrough point,and the current situation is in the aspect of financial allocation of the public library.It focuses on the comparative research in the difference and gap between our country and America of related legal guarantee and the present situation of the specific funding appropriation.Firstly,this paper reviews and combed the related research results at home and abroad,and expounds the theoretical basis of the argument based on the specific research perspective,to provide theoretical support for the research.Secondly,it comparatively analyzes the present situation between China and the United States in the legal protection of public library,and finds the phenomenon of the absence of laws and Local regulations in the field of public library in China.Again,it systematically studies the detailed comparison in the aspects of financial funds appropriation of the public library between China and America.The existing problems in our country as follows:A single source of library funding;The proportion of investment at all levels of fiscal funds is not clear;Total lack and slow growth of financial allocations,appropriation is not balanced,very low per capita funding;The implementation of funds of the main appropriation body is not ideal;Lack of the specification of funding application process and approval conditions;Allocation and use of funds need to be further standardized;The internal management of the public library tends to administrative,management power is too concentrated,and so on.Finally,the last part of the essay summarizes the comparison results of the two country,puts forward some suggestions for the problems found,and obtains effective use for reference from current practices and measures of America.