The sudden Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented impact to global economy and culture, and the common issues that all the research libraries in the world are faced is how to survive and how to develop better. In March of 2022, the ARL published its annual report in which the ARL reviewed its various as respond to pandemic jobs in 2021. The author put forward in this paper that research libraries in our country should learn from ARL to pay attention to the significance of relevant legislation to the development of library, to increase and popularize the management ability of scientific data, to recognize and  actively take part in the solution of social problems, to increase the leadership of librarians so as to promote the transformation and development of research libraries.