終生學習的社會是一個以教育為中心的社會。在此社會中的任何人，必須不斷進 行學習的活動，以滿足個人願望和社會的需要，也因而導致成人教育的興起。成人教育具有 廣泛性、多樣性、多元性和複雜性，可透過許多種方式來達成，自我導向學習即為其中的一 種方式。在各類型圖書館中尤以公共圖書館與成人教育的關係最為密切，其精神也最為相互 一致。而在此終生學習的社會裡，圖書館與成人教育之自我導向學習方式的關係為何？貢獻 何在？還有那些需要改進的地方？即為本文的目的。

　　　　　Life-long learning society is a society everyone must continue his learning activities in order to keep up with the process of the times. Adult education is the symbolic of life-long learning. Self-directed learning is one mean of adult education. How can library or public library contribute to self-directed learning is a very important thing in librarianship. In this article the relationship of library and self-directed learning, and four kinds of factors that affect the relationship and achievement of above are discussed.