图书馆杂志

图书馆杂志 ›› 2025, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (417): 113-123.

• 图书馆学史 • 上一篇    下一篇

清末江南图书馆馆员同侪组成及其职业的发展与流动

吕星月, 袁曦临   

  • 出版日期:2026-01-15 发布日期:2026-01-29
  • 作者简介:

    吕星月 南京农业大学信息管理学院,博士研究生。研究方向:数字人文、图书馆史。作者贡献:整体设计、文献挖掘与梳理、文章撰写与内容修改。 江苏南京210031 

    袁曦临 东南大学图书馆,研究馆员。东南大学经济管理学院,硕士生导师。研究方向:学术评价、阅读文化研究。作者贡献:指导选题、文章结构调整与内容修缮。江苏南京 210096

Librarians Cohort Composition and Career Trajectories at the Jiangnan Library in the Late Qing Dynasty

Lü Xingyue ,Yuan Xilin   

  • Online:2026-01-15 Published:2026-01-29
  • About author:Lü Xingyue, Yuan Xilin

摘要:

本文以清末江南图书馆登记在册的24 名馆员为考察对象,对馆员群体的生平仕履、人际往来和职业流动进行了挖掘和梳理。通过探讨馆员群体的构成特点与业务活动,反映早期图书馆人的身份建构与职业认知。研究发现,江南图书馆的馆员群体由师生、同僚、同乡等社会纽带以及共同的藏书治学志趣所联结。在图书馆事业的早期阶段,尽管馆员身份具有流动性与不稳定性,但他们自觉承担了文献保护与编纂传承的历史使命,并对典藏编目、读者服务以及文献采访等图书馆业务的开展做出了专业贡献,形成了独特的职业认知。在时代鼎革之际,他们共同塑造了现代图书馆馆员的职业形象,赋予图书馆作为士人理想与学术文化血脉延续的精神特质。

Abstract:

This study examines the biographies interpersonal relationships and career mobility of 24 registered librarians at the Jiangnan Library in the late Qing Dynasty. By analyzing their backgrounds andactivities it explores how these early librarians constructed their professional identity and developed asense of professional consciousness. The findings reveal that the librarians of the Jiangnan Library wereconnected through social bonds such as mentorship collegial relationships shared hometowns and acollective passion for book collecting and scholarly pursuits. In the library‘s formative years despite thefluidity and uncertainty of their roles these librarians conscientiously embraced the historical mission ofsafeguarding documents and sustaining scholarly traditions. They made professional contributions to thedevelopment of library operations such as cataloging reader services and literature acquisition forming aunique professional cognition. Amidst a period of profound social transformation they collectively shapedthe professional persona of modern librarians and endowed the library with the spiritual attributes of asanctuary for scholarly ideals and the continuity of academic heritage.

Key words: Jiangnan Library, Librarian, Peer network, Career mobility