任先生在国家图书馆做了20几年的馆长,他领导的是我们国家图书馆的事业,也领导的是我们全国图书馆的事业。我认为任先生对中国图书馆事业所作出的贡献,不仅仅是一个管理者,是一个领导人,还在于他的图书馆思想,最主要体现在人文主义的、人本主义的图书馆思想。西方某些学者在60年代甚至更早的时候就提出,图书馆随着数字信息化的发展会灭亡,但任先生认为是不会灭亡的,只要有人类的存在,图书馆就会存在,因为什么 Mr. Ren spent 20 years as a curator at the National Library. He led the cause of our national library and also led the cause of our national library. I think Mr. Ren’s contribution to the cause of Chinese libraries is not only a manager, a leader, but also his library idea, which is mainly embodied in the humanistic and humanistic library thinking. Some Western scholars even proposed in the 1960s or even earlier that the library will die out as the development of digital information, but Mr. Ren believes that it will not perish, as long as there is a human being, the library will exist because what