何物贻谋远，无过万卷书

摘 要 耕读传家、诗书继世，是我国古代富贵人家的书香传统之一，也是成就中国历史上人才辈出的重要文教基础。20世纪初，随着近代化的公共图书馆在江苏一些城市陆续诞生，私家秘藏书籍、个人拥书自读的居家读书传统，流变而为馆藏文献公有、读者自主阅借的社會文教新风习。本文通过回溯清代私家和书院藏书在文献资源供给方面，对近现代南京、常州、苏州、镇江等地公共图书馆藏书建设的早期贡献，尤其是柳诒徵、蒋吟秋等“学者型馆长”为读者服务工作和阅读推广活动所做出的坚执努力，昭示今人应深心认同读书成才的人生价值观，继承和发扬崇文好学的文教传统，倍加珍惜来之不易的全民阅读环境和公共文献资源，为“书香江苏”更上一层楼而添砖加瓦。

关键词 江南图书馆  江苏省立国学图书馆  读者服务工作  阅读推广活动

分类号 G250

DOI 10.16810/j.cnki.1672-514X.2021.04.001

“Nothing Worth Bequeathing to Posterity is More Than Ten Thousand Books”： Focusing on the Readers Service Work of the Modern Jiangsu Public Library in the Early Days of EstablishmentXu

Yan

Abstract Cultivation and read to bequeath to the family or inheriting poetry and books is one of the scholarly traditions of ancient Chinese rich families， and it is also an important cultural and educational foundation for men of talent come out in succession in Chinese history. At the beginning of the 20th century， with the emergence of modern public library in some cities of Jiangsu Province， the tradition of collecting and reading books has changed into a new social culture and education custom of public collection and readers reading and borrowing books independently. In this paper， by looking back to the early contribution to private and academy collection in the Qing Dynasty for the modern Nanjing， Changzhou， Suzhou， Zhenjiang and other places of public library collection construction in the literature resources supply， especially the firm effort of Liu Yizheng， Jiang Yinqiu and other “academic director of library” for the readers service work and reading promotion activities， it shows that todays people should deeply recognize the life value of reading up， inherit and carry forward the cultural and educational tradition of worshiping literature and loving learn， cherish the hard-won national reading environment and public literature resources much to lick bricks and tiles for a higher level of “Literary Jiangsu”.

Keywords Jiangnan Library. Jiangsu Provincial Sinology Library. Readers service work. Reading promotion activities.

0 引言

“物以稀为贵。”中国古代，能够流通的书籍品种少、数量小，而价格却又非常之高，购书、藏书和读书，对于那些即便是康富人家来说，也是难乎其难的事，更不必说寻常百姓之家了。

清光绪十九年（1893年），顾颉刚先生出生于苏州城里悬家巷的一个大户人家。他回忆说，“我家是一个很老的读书人家，他们酷望我从读书上求上进。”到十一、二岁时，就喜欢自己去买新书来读，“当时苏州的大书店集中在护龙街，但那些书铺里的书价值昂贵，我不敢去，为的是看到了可爱的书而力不能买是心中非常难过的事情”，因而只能去逛逛玄妙观前那些小铺小摊，用十分便宜的价钱，去淘那些上海的书店里出来的滞销书。……