Xiang Da is a famous historian and the first director of Peking University Library after the founding of the People's Republic of China.During his career in Peking University Library,Xiang Da made it clear that university library is an academic institution promoting teaching and research and being respon-sible to the university.He promoted the Peking University Library's relocation and its deep integration with Yenching University Library and improved reader service by overcoming the shortage of library space and staff in order to support the teaching of the university.He made attempts to build research-oriented Pe-king University Library in three aspects:the funding,the book collection,and the research environment.With his academic-oriented vision of library management,Xiang Da made a great contribution to the devel-opment of Peking University Library.
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