TY - SER
AU - Murari Lal Nagar
AB - Maharaja Sayajirao of Baroda (India) was inspired by the progress of American public libraries during his visits to this country. He invited William Alanson Borden to provide similar library services for his own people. Borden went to Baroda in 1910 and founded the first public library system in the world. And the University of the Panjab at Lahore invited Asa Don Dickinson in 1915 to organize its University Library on modern American lines. These two pioneering American librarians became the architects of the Indian library edifice. They set the path for the progress of the Indian library movement. 
CY - Columbia, MO
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
pt. 1. America the inspirer : Indian librarians comment 
pt. 2. What they say : Indian librarians speak on the India wheat loan educational exchange program of the foreign service of the United States of America, 1956-1962.
N2 - Maharaja Sayajirao of Baroda (India) was inspired by the progress of American public libraries during his visits to this country. He invited William Alanson Borden to provide similar library services for his own people. Borden went to Baroda in 1910 and founded the first public library system in the world. And the University of the Panjab at Lahore invited Asa Don Dickinson in 1915 to organize its University Library on modern American lines. These two pioneering American librarians became the architects of the Indian library edifice. They set the path for the progress of the Indian library movement. 
PB - International Library Center
PP - Columbia, MO
PY - 1991
SN - 0943913225
EP - 89 pp.
TI - Indo-American Library Cooperation
ER -