抗日战争爆发,北平院校匆匆南迁。北平图书馆馆长袁同礼先生偕北图一部分同人南下,先后与长沙临时大学、昆明西南联合大学合办后方大学图书馆。在此期间,深感关于此次战争的文献需要及时搜集整理并加以保存,以备将来纂成专书,以记录我中华民族此次伟大的奋斗经过。 Anti-Japanese War broke out, North Institute hurried south move. Mr. Yuan Tongli, curator of Peking Library, headed south along with some of his colleagues and co-founded the Library of the Rear University with Changsha Provisional University and Kunming Southwest Associated University. In the meantime, the articles deeply involved in the war need to be collated and preserved in time for future compilation into a book to record the great struggle for the Chinese nation.