Library History SIG sessions in Singapore
13 August 2013
Please join the Library History SIG for papers and discussion of the development of libraries and librarianship in Asia.
Libraries, readers, and book culture in Asia: New perspectives in Information and global history"
21 August 2013 09:30 – 11:30 | Room: Summit 2
Presentations
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Introduction: Particular contributions to historical change: toward global and information histories of library and information science
STEVE WITT (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA) -
The Makiling Echo: the multiple functions of a staff magazine in the American tropical empire of the early twentieth century
BRENDAN LUYT (Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, Singapore) -
The "elite of their profession": the impact on professional practice of the Office of War Information libraries and their librarians in the British dominions during World War II
MARY CARROLL (Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia) -
Textbook case: a colonial history book's influence (or lack thereof) on the miseducation of the Filipino
VERNON R. TOTANES (Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines) -
Historical perspective; the Statement on Intellectual Freedom in libraries in Japan
YASUYO INOUE (Dokkyo University, Souka, Japan) -
The new library movement in China and the impact of American librarianship in the beginning of the 20th Century
CHENG HUANWEN (School of Information Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China) -
History of Library Developments in China
ZHIXIAN YI (School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Austra