1st Edition
Globalizing the Library Librarians and Development Work, 1945–1970
By Amanda Laugesen
Copyright 2019
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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Globalizing the Library focuses on the globalization of information and the library in the period following the Second World War. Providing an examination of the ideas and aspirations surrounding information and the library, as well as the actual practices and actions of information professionals from the United States, Britain, and those working with organizations such as Unesco to develop... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Libraries for the World; Chapter 1: Imagining the Global Library; Chapter 2: Identifying the ‘Library Problem’; Chapter 3: Making the Modern Library; Chapter 4: Making the Modern Librarian; Chapter 5: Libraries as Foreign Policy; Chapter 6: Library Diplomacy and Exchange; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Amanda Laugesen is an Associate Professor and senior fellow in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, and director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University.
