本文探討公共圖書館與多元文化服務,分別就圖書館與多元文化、公共圖書館與多元文化、公共圖書館提供之多元文化服務等方面闡述之。本文作者認為,發展公共圖書館多元文化服務乃因應當代多元文化社會民眾的需要,因此而能完成公共圖書館教育、資訊、文化、休閒四大功能中的文化功能。
This paper attempts to study the public libraries and multicultural services. It discusses the nature of libraries and multiculturalism, public libraries and multiculturalism, and the multicultural services provided by public libraries to their users. The author of this paper believes that to develop library multicultural services is to meet the needs of the general public in current multicultural society. In doing so, public libraries are able to fulfill their cultural function among the four basic functions, that is, educational, informational, cultural, and recreational functions.