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Peer reviewedWenzel, 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)
Download full textNitecki, Joseph Z. – 1996
This document is based on transcripts of recorded informal interviews with: (1) selected senior professors in the library schools at Warsaw, Krakow, and Wroclaw (Poland); (2) the director and a member of the Books and Readers Institute of the National Polish Libraries; and (3) a group of Polish librarians and students in the field. The report…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Peer reviewedKeany, John W. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 1997
Discusses the National Library of Australia's leadership of the Australian library system in light of the failure of key electronic aspects of the Strategic Plan. Topics include overseas collecting; electronic access; the Distributed National Collection (DNC); culturally discriminatory collecting policy; and costs of access, including user fees.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Costs, Cultural Influences, Electronic Libraries
