Abstract: Participating in the inheritance and practice of local culture is an inevitable requirement for public libraries to practice their service functions,broaden their service radius and promote the development of their undertakings.In the pan-media environment,public libraries have many advantages,such as technical advantage,resource advantage,communication advantage and so on.Taking Guangzhou Library as an example,from the angle of public library,this paper puts forward some ideas on how to make use of the advantages of public library in the pan-media environment and to innovate the means of inheriting the local culture.

Key words: public library;local culture;the era of pan-media;Guangzhou Library