论当代图书馆的地位挑战与价值重申-以“知识付费”的兴起与局限为参照

Purpose/significance] In the digital age, libraries have been facing endless competitors and losing users all the time. The pay-for-knowledge of the new internet wave has became the newest competitor of libraries. However, related researches didn't pay attention to the role and influence of the pay-for-knowledge in the knowledge market and also didn't return to the thinking on libraries more deeply.[Method/process] This paper used the methods of comparison and historical research, and took the rise and limitations of the pay-for-knowledge as the reference for analysis.[Result/conclusion] The article holds that the rise of pay-for-knowledge is due to abundant human resources and a flat knowledge exchange market. Behind the challenge to the status of contemporary libraries is the decomposition of librarians' professional subjectivity and mediation. Libraries shall abandon the central thinking, re-recognize the historical tasks at this stage, respond the challenge to the status and reiterate the value through the professional output of libraries and librarians. Pay-for-Knowledge cannot solve the two limitations of information distortion and information fairness. Compared with other competitors in the knowledge exchange market, contemporary libraries still have irreplaceable unique value.