TY - SER
AU - William J. Buxton
AU - Charles R. Acland
AU - Charles F. McCombs
CY - Montreal, Canada
LA - English
N1 - Includes the full text of the 1941 McCombs report.  The authors credit the report for helping advance the formation of the Canadian Library Association in 1946 and the subsequent legislation for a National Library in 1953.


Contents:
Part I. Canadian library historiography and American philanthropy 
The McCombs report in context 
The Carnegie Corporation and Canadian libraries 
The Rockefeller Foundation and Canadian libraries 
Charles F. McCombs and the Rockefeller survey 
The conjunction of the McCombs and Marshall visits 
The conjunction of the McCombs and Marshall visits 
The McCombs report recommendations for action 
The aftermath of the McCombs report 
The flowering of the Canadian library movment 
The McCombs report and the Rockefeller library program 
American philanthropy and Canadian libraries 

Part II. The McCombs report, 1941
PB - Graduate School of Library and Information Studies and The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries & Institutions, McGill University
PP - Montreal, Canada
PY - 1998
SN - 9780771705199
EP - 172 pp.
TI - American Philanthropy and Canadian Libraries: The Politics of Knowledge and Information
ER -