低谷是对于高峰来说的,是相对存在的事物,有高必有低,存在低谷现象并不奇怪。重要的是低谷期不能太长,要及时步出低谷。我是赞成黄宗忠同志关于从80年代中期开始,我国图书馆事业由高峰转入“低谷”这一观点的,他的《处于“低谷”时期的我国图书馆事业》一文,已提出了充分论据,本文不再重复。最近读了些不赞同“低谷”观点的文章,主要理由有两点;第一,许多图书馆经费的绝对数字仍是上升的,购书量下降是图书价上涨大快、太高。而这是国家一时物价失控所造成,各种事业均受影响,不是图书馆事业单独受影响,因此不能认为图书馆事业处于 Trough is for the peak, is the relative existence of things, there is high must have low, there is the phenomenon of depression is not surprising. The important thing is that the trough period can not be too long, we should promptly step out of the trough. I am in favor of Comrade Huang Zongzhong’s argument that our library business has been transformed from a peak to a “trough” since the mid-1980s and that his article entitled “The Librarian in our Country” in the “Trough” period has already put forward sufficient arguments This article will not be repeated. Recently read articles that do not support the view of “trough” for two main reasons. First, the absolute figure of many library funds is still on the rise. The decline in the purchase of books has led to the book prices rising rapidly and too high. This is caused by the temporary loss of price control in the country. Various businesses are affected. It is not the library business that is affected alone. Therefore, it can not be considered that the library business is in