@book{11013,
  author = {Amanda Laugesen},
  title = {Globalizing the Library: Librarians and Development Work, 1945-1970},
  year = {2019},
  pages = {181 pp.},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  address = {New York, NY},
  isbn = {9780815370031},
  note = {<p>Examines efforts by information professionals from the United States and Britain to foster global library development.&nbsp;</p><p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Introduction. Libraries for the world</li><li>Imagining the global library </li><li>Libraries and World Peace</li><li>Libraries and the Global Project of modernization and modernity</li><li>The library and the making of the modern self</li><li>Identifying the "library problem" </li><li>International library work infrastructure</li><li>Surveys and seminars</li><li>Creating the "expert"</li><li>Making the modern library </li><li>UNESCO pilot public libraries</li><li>Library planning and development: Public, School and University libraries</li><li>Technologies, methods, literature</li><li>Making collections</li><li>Making the modern librarian </li><li>Training modern librarians: Establishing library schools</li><li>Training librarians: study abroad</li><li>Making a global profession</li><li>Libraries as foreign policy </li><li>British Council libraries and British colonialism</li><li>British Council libraries and their users</li><li>Libraries and American statecraft</li><li>USIS libraries in action</li><li>Library diplomacy and exchange </li><li>Librarians abroad: exchange programs and study tours</li><li>Librarians abroad: working and travelling overseas</li><li>Librarians and the Peace Corps</li><li>Conclusion</li></ul>},
  language = {English},
}