The Research on the Return of Private Collection to Public Administration Under the Background of Western Culture Spreading to the East—On the Cultural Connotation of Books in Where Books Go:Library Culture and Society Since Modern Times
Since the spread of Western culture to the East,with the increasing improvement of the pub-lic library system,the trend of turning private collections into public ones has become a major trend.On the basis of analyzing the phenomenon of"private collection returning to public"under the background of"Western culture spreading eastward",this article interprets the summary and characteristics of Wang Angong's Where Do Books Go:Collection Culture and Society in Modern Times,focusing on"book crisis"and book visits,old book transactions,and the protection and return of private collections,sorting out the collection status of literature since modern times;interpret the transformation of book collection culture from three aspects:the emergence of new trends in libraries,the transformation of book collection con-cepts,and the academic evolution of book collection history research.It analyzes and explores the perspec-tive of research on the history of book collection in China,proposes that research on the history of book collection needs to form its own research paradigm,and looks forward to the future of research on the his-tory of book collection.
Classics Returned to the PublicLiterature CollectionHistory of Library CollectionsLi-brary Culture