2010年底,一份调查报告透露英国各地地方政府将大幅缩减文化开支,使得很多图书馆都面临被关闭的危险,由此英国爆发了“保卫图书馆”大战。本文从图书馆管理者应高度重视政府的作用,注重图书馆公共关系能力的提升,开发读者资源,充分发挥图书馆学会/协会等组织的作用方面,阐述了公共图书馆的生存之道。 The end of 2010, a survey revealed that local governments across the United Kingdom will substantially reduce cultural spending, making many libraries are facing the danger of being closed, which broke out in the United Kingdom “Defense Library ” battle. This paper elaborates the survival of public libraries from the perspectives that library managers should attach great importance to the role of the government, pay attention to the improvement of the library’s public relations ability, develop readers’ resources, give full play to the role of the library association / association and other organizations.