Format:
xiv, 170 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen ;
,
24 cm.
ISBN:
978-1-5381-4314-8
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 Online-Ausgabe Ideology and libraries : California, diplomacy, and occupied Japan, 1945-1952 ISBN 978-1-5381-4315-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Political Science
,
General works
Keywords:
Öffentliche Bibliothek
;
Besetzung
;
Bibliothek
;
History
Author information:
Buckland, Michael Keeble 1941-
