diff --git a/c_glib/arrow-glib/reader.cpp b/c_glib/arrow-glib/reader.cpp
index 8e84eb58b13..8d88fc1e4b2 100644
--- a/c_glib/arrow-glib/reader.cpp
+++ b/c_glib/arrow-glib/reader.cpp
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ GArrowTableBatchReader *
 garrow_table_batch_reader_new(GArrowTable *table)
 {
   auto arrow_table = garrow_table_get_raw(table);
-  auto arrow_table_batch_reader = std::make_shared<arrow::TableBatchReader>(*arrow_table);
+  auto arrow_table_batch_reader = std::make_shared<arrow::TableBatchReader>(arrow_table);
   return garrow_table_batch_reader_new_raw(&arrow_table_batch_reader, table);
 }
 
diff --git a/ruby/red-arrow/test/test-record-batch-reader.rb b/ruby/red-arrow/test/test-record-batch-reader.rb
index 1becdf5b63b..3a94290d535 100644
--- a/ruby/red-arrow/test/test-record-batch-reader.rb
+++ b/ruby/red-arrow/test/test-record-batch-reader.rb
@@ -43,4 +43,14 @@ class TestRecordBatchReader < Test::Unit::TestCase
                    reader.read_all)
     end
   end
+
+  test("exported TableBatchReader keeps its table alive") do
+    expected = Arrow::Table.new("count" => [1, 2, 3])
+    stream =
+      Arrow::TableBatchReader.new(Arrow::Table.new("count" => [1, 2, 3])).export
+    GC.start
+
+    reader = Arrow::RecordBatchReader.import(stream)
+    assert_equal(expected, reader.read_all)
+  end
 end