收錄《中國圖書館學報》近年來發錶的學術價值高、影響力大的學術論文近20篇，其中不乏吳慰慈、陳傳夫、王子舟、王世偉、馬張華、於良芝、肖希明等大傢的名作，內容涉及圖書館學研究、圖書館職業、圖書館專業教育、信息檢索技術、圖書館立法等各個方麵。

《中國圖書館學報年刊(英文版).2009》內容簡介：As a nation with rich library traditions, libraries in China are increasingly becoming animportant part in library development globally. The rapid growth of China's economy, greatefforts in the cultural sector and wide adoption of information technology have broughtabout extraordinary changes to China's libraries. Libraries in China have attracted worldwideattention to their vision modification, technology application, development scale, and growthrate. Likewise, research has also been carried out in the field with remarkable advancementas a result. In order to enable our colleagues all over the world to learn about research anddevelopment in China's library field, we launch this English version of Journal of LibraryScience in China which is to be published annually and based on the bimonthly Chineseversion of the journal.