Abstract: Through analyzing the promotion phenomenon of personnel management in University Library, we found that the promotion as a means to encourage mode, incomes directly related to the positions, the lack of job competency model, and other factors resulting the library exsists pitfalls of Peter Principle in job promotion, and resulting an unreasonable situation of human resources. This paper put forward that through guiding librarians do a good career plan, perfecting the salary system, creating multi-track promotion opportunities, establishing job competency model, sounding librarian training system, and optimizing job promotion by work incentives,etc, the library coould avoid pitfalls of Peter Principle in personnel management.

Key words: Peter Principle