The American Library Assocation in Latin America: American Librarianship as a Modern Model during the Good Neighbor Policy Era
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2002
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Libraries & Culture
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37
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4
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307-38
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Abstract |
Through ALA projects in Latin America, American librarianship progressed, step by step, from conceptualization to implementation as the model to be followed by the Latin American countries in modernizing not only their library practices but their societies in general. The development of library practices was fundamental to the pursuit of a "modern" society. In fighting fascist propaganda, the United States has portrayed itself at least since World War II as a "modern" model whose prosperity and economic growth were important achievements but achievable only in a democratic society. |