高校图书馆的教育职能,应包括“利用一切审美因素,运用多种方式对学生进行审美教育。”本文对此作些探讨。高校图书馆不仅应当而且可以履行审美教育的职能。这是因为: 第一,作为审美教育三要素之一的审美媒介——美的事物,在高校图书馆中大量而集中存在,这是高校其它任何部门都无法比拟的。例如图书馆舍的建筑美;图书资料中所包含的科学美、艺术美;馆员与读者的劳动美;馆员与馆员之间、馆员与读者之间,读者与读者之间的人际关系交往美等等,这一切都为审美教育提供了丰富的陶冶因素。第二,图书馆的施教特点特别适合于审美施教。图书馆是通过服务来履行自己的教 The educational functions of university libraries should include “using all kinds of aesthetic factors and using a variety of ways to carry out aesthetic education for students.” This article discusses this. University library should not only fulfill the function of aesthetic education. This is because: First, as the aesthetic media of beauty education, one of the three most important elements of aesthetic education, the United States has a large and concentrated presence in the university library, which is unmatched by any other department in the university. Such as the architectural beauty of library houses; the beauty of science, the beauty of art contained in the books and materials; the labor beauty of librarians and readers; the interpersonal relationships between librarians and librarians, between librarians and readers, and between readers and readers The relationship between the United States and so on, all of these aesthetic education provides a rich element of mold. Second, the teaching characteristics of the library are particularly suitable for aesthetic teaching. Libraries serve their own teaching through service