Abstract: The culture and tourism integration, as an important project of the top-level design of the Chinese government,has in recent years become a key work and research hotspot in the library industry.From the perspective of historical evolution, this paper uses the method of literature research and comparative analysis to sort out and analyze the development history of the cultural and tourism integration of national public libraries in the past 100 years as well as its practical experience of Chinese and foreign libraries, and to look forward to the future development direction of the cultural and tourism integration in public libraries.

Key words: public libraries;cultural and tourism integration;development history;practice mode