进入21世纪,数字化、光导纤维和计算机开始成为信息技术革命的三大支柱之一,并连同网络化一起构成新世纪高科技经济时代的基本特征。网络和数据库建设,已经成为新时代各国信息和文化产业必须进行的基本建设。由于图书馆是人类知识的宝库,是信息高速公路上最大的信息源,因而图书馆的数字化就成为网络和数据库建设的首选目标。那么,谁来建造中国民族数字图书馆呢? Entering the 21st century, digitalization, optical fiber and computers are beginning to become one of the three pillars of the information technology revolution and, together with networking, constitute the basic characteristics of the high-tech economic age of the new century. The construction of networks and databases has become a basic construction that must be carried out by the information and cultural industries of all countries in the new era. As libraries are a treasure trove of human knowledge and the largest source of information on the information superhighway, digitalization of libraries has become the preferred target for network and database construction. So, who will build China National Digital Library?