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Jaeger, Paul T.; Bertot, John Carlo; Subramaniam, Mega – Library Quarterly, 2013
The field of library and information science (LIS) continues to struggle with the issue of diversity and inclusion. As we are perpetually working to increase racial and gender diversity in the profession, the definition of diversity continues to broaden to include socioeconomic status, education, language, literacy, age, sexual orientation,…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Science, Cultural Relevance, Ethnic Diversity
Jones, Plummer Alston, Jr. – Library Quarterly, 2013
Eleanor (Edwards) Ledbetter, who served immigrant populations in Cleveland throughout most of the Progressive Era and the Great Depression, was one of the first librarians to advocate for multiculturalism (then called cultural pluralism) as opposed to Americanism. In providing multicultural and multilingual library services for immigrants,…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Librarians, Cultural Pluralism, Library Services
Hunter, Nancy Chaffin; Legg, Kathleen; Oehlerts, Beth – Library Quarterly, 2010
Colorado State University Libraries has been creating digitized collections, primarily from its Archives and Special Collections unit, since 2000. These projects involved collaboration among Archives, Cataloging, and Digitization; the most recent and ambitious project, digitizing 13,000 historical images of the university dating from the 1880s…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperation, Archives, Library Development
Johnson, Eric D. M.; Kazmer, Michelle M. – Library Quarterly, 2011
Library scholars and practitioners have frequently reflected on the various factors that in combination make up a hospitable library, but there has been little theoretical synthesis of the notion of the library as a place of hospitality. The hospitality industry provides a rich vein of theoretical material from which to draw definitions of…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Libraries, Library Services, Definitions
Templeton, Thomas Clay – Library Quarterly, 2008
Place reminds us to tailor our professional work to the shifting concerns, and indeed the shifting criteria, of our shifting constituencies, rather than to a placeless professional vision of what librarianship, society, and literacy should be. Every place maker must make do, make sense, and make place in an environment that is technologically…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Human Geography, Familiarity, Phenomenology

Nardini, Robert F. – Library Quarterly, 2001
Discusses the use of metaphor during the first 50 years of the modern American library movement in the hopes of inspiring one another, recruit newcomers to the profession, and to influence outsiders. Examines references to the library in terms of more visible institutions such as schools, universities, the church, and business and industry.…
Descriptors: Institutional Role, Library Development, Library History, Library Role

Ellis, Richard D. – Library Quarterly, 1999
Discusses the trade union library system in China that has fallen on hard times amid economic and social changes of the past 20 years. Focuses on a history of the trade union library movement; services provided by trade union libraries; problems faced by union libraries; and reform of trade union libraries. (AEF)
Descriptors: Change, Foreign Countries, Information Services, Library Development

Williamson, William Landram – Library Quarterly, 1999
Relates the work of Archibald George William Dunningham, a librarian from New Zealand who worked as a consultant for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the newly developed nation of Indonesia from 1953 to 1968. Discusses meeting with leaders of librarianship, education, and government to help formulate…
Descriptors: Consultants, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Government Role

Knuth, Rebecca – Library Quarterly, 1999
Explains three basic models of school librarianship: the American model, where school libraries are funded by school districts; the British model, where school and public library systems are entwined; and a combined model, in which school and public libraries coexist. Discusses models for school librarianship in developing countries are also…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Library Administration

Wenzel, Sarah G. – Library Quarterly, 1999
Discusses political and cultural battles over the role of a national library in France and the future direction and function of libraries in general. Uses accounts from the press to trace changes in the project as well as ways in which it influenced French librarianship. Contains 34 references. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Change, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)

Watson, Paula D. – Library Quarterly, 1994
Examines the work of women's voluntary associations in support of public libraries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Activities studied include support of traveling libraries, library legislation, and the founding of local libraries. Cooperation of organized women's groups with the American Library Association and other organizations is…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Females, Feminism, Legislation
Olden, Anthony – Library Quarterly, 2005
The Tanganyika Library Service (TLS) was the national public library service set up in Tanzania, East Africa, in the 1960s. By the end of the decade, it was generally regarded as a model of Western-style public library development in Africa. This is an account of its establishment and early years based on accessible documentary sources in Tanzania…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Development, National Programs, Public Libraries

Mathiesen, Penelope, Ed.; And Others – Library Quarterly, 1994
This second in a two-part series on resources in major university music libraries contains: "The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University" (John B. Howard) and "The Research Collections of the Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester" (Mary Wallace Davidson). (Contains 73…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Librarians, Library Collection Development