Michael K. Buckland

Ideology and Libraries

California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945-1952

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781538143148
• ISBN-10: 1538143143
• Artikelnr.: 60064270

Autorenporträt

Michael K. Buckland

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Illustrations
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Function and Structure
3 Cultural Contexts and Political Choices.
4 The California County Library System
5 Libraries in Diplomacy
6 Libraries in Japan and the Allied Occupation
7 CIE Information centers
8 The Education Mission, 1946
9 Philip Keeney and his Plan
10 National Diet Library
11 The Library Law of 1950
12 Don Brown's Initiative
13 Gitler, Kiyooka and Keio
14 The Japan Library School
15 Afterwards
16 Summary and Retrospect
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Keeney's Plan
Bibliography
Index