Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 170 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781538143155
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-5381-4314-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Political Science
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General works
Keywords:
USA
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Öffentliche Bibliothek
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Japan
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Besetzung
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Bibliothek
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Geschichte 1945-1952
Author information:
Buckland, Michael Keeble 1941-
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