各位同行:今天有机会来哈尔滨和各位共同交流感想,我感到很高兴。1988年2月至1989年5月,我作为中英友好奖学金的获得者,以高级访问学者的身份在英国北伦敦理工大学情报学院进修学习。在这前后十五个月的时间里,我听了一些课,走访了一些图书馆和图书情报系,做了一些社会调查,接触了一些学者。在这里,我想把这些感想向同志们汇报一下。我认为,英国图书馆有这么几个特点: Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to share my thoughts with you today in Harbin. From February 1988 to May 1989, as a senior visiting scholar, I was a winner of the China-UK Friendship Scholarship and studied at the Information Technology College, North London Polytechnic University, England. During this period of fifteen months, I listened to some classes, visited some libraries and library and information science departments, did some social surveys, and contacted some scholars. Here, I would like to report these feelings to my comrades. I think there are several characteristics of the British Library: