公共知识空间是一个随着时间的累积连同时间一起共同将人类多种多样的思想契合成知识聚集的构序系统,是相对于私人知识空间衍生出的一个概念。图书馆作为公共知识空间的重要组成部分,在人类社会发展历程中,一直承担着优秀公共知识聚集、整序和积累的功能。同时,图书馆在公共知识与私人知识转化中的催化作用,在公共知识空间与私人知识空间的贯通作用使其在社会中具有唯一、不可替代性。 The public knowledge space is a sequential system that integrates a diverse range of human beings into knowledge gathering with the accumulation of time. It is a concept derived from the private knowledge space. As an important part of the public knowledge space, libraries have always assumed the function of gathering, sorting and accumulating outstanding public knowledge in the development of human society. At the same time, the library’s catalytic role in the transformation of public knowledge and private knowledge makes it unique and irreplaceable in society through the common function of public knowledge space and private knowledge space.