Ideology and Libraries
California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
In 1950 Robert L. Gitler went to Japan to found the first college-level school of library science in that country. His mission, an improbable success, was documented in an assisted autobiography as Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School (Scarecrow Press, 1999). Subsequent research into initiatives to improve library services during the Allied occupation has revealed surprising discoveries and human interest of the lives of very diverse individuals. A central role was played by a librarian, Philip Keeney, who later became well-known as an alleged communist spy. A national plan, designed for Japan's libraries, was based directly on the coun…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5381-4315-5
- EAN: 9781538143155
- Produktnummer: 34983495
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 37'346 KB
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