Ideology and libraries : California, diplomacy, and occupied Japan, 1945-1952 /
Michael K. Buckland
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
| Omfang | xiv, 170 s.
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| Opplysninger | Introduction -- Function and Structure -- Cultural Contexts and Political Choices -- The California County Library System -- Libraries in Diplomacy -- Libraries in Japan and the Allied Occupation -- CIE Information centers -- The Education Mission, 1946 -- Philip Keeney and his Plan -- National Diet Library -- The Library Law of 1950 -- Don Brown's Initiative -- Gitler, Kiyooka and Keio -- The Japan Library School -- Afterwards -- Summary and Retrospect.. - "This book examines US-influenced initiatives to improve library services during the Allied Occupation of post-surrender Japan and looks at history of funding libraries abroad as a tool of cultural diplomacy, the development of free public libraries as a progressive political agenda in California, and an explanation of why in Japan library services were relatively backward despite exceptionally high literacy and very well-developed publishing industry and retail book trade"--
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| ISBN | 9781538143148
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