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Ideology and libraries : California, diplomacy, and occupied Japan, 1945-1952
- Title
- Ideology and libraries : California, diplomacy, and occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Michael K. Buckland, with Masaya Takayama.
- Author
- Buckland, Michael K., 1941-
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Takayama, Masaya
- Description
- xiv, 170 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Comparative librarianship
- Libraries and state
- Libraries > Politcal aspects
- Libraries > Japan > History > 20th century
- Public services (Libraries) > California > History > 20th century
- Public services (Libraries) > Japan > History > 20th century
- Libraries
- Public services (Libraries)
- Japan > History > Allied occupation, 1945-1952
- California
- Japan
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-2242
- ISBN
- 9781538143148
- 1538143143
- 9781538143155 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020035829
- OCLC
- 1192303647
- Author
- Buckland, Michael K., 1941- author.
- Title
- Ideology and libraries : California, diplomacy, and occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Michael K. Buckland, with Masaya Takayama.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Takayama, Masaya, author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Buckland, Michael K., 1941- Ideology and libraries Lanham : The Rowman & Littlefield, [2021] 9781538143155 (DLC) 2020035830
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-2242