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A Study on the Developmental Process of University-based Librarianship Education in Japan

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2011, 45(2), pp.229-249
  • DOI : 10.4275/KSLIS.2011.45.2.229
  • Publisher : 한국문헌정보학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : April 15, 2011
  • Accepted : May 13, 2011

Jae-soon Jo 1

1국립중앙도서관

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the developmental process of University-based librarianship education in Japan from a historical perspective by analyzing literature. The results show that America’s librarianship education policy historically focused on the establishment of a new model of librarianship education whereas Japan’s policy was to keep the one from the Second World War. In 1951, an American model of education was established at Keio University by the contract between U.S. Department of the Army and American Library Association in America, but it did not continue to develop as mainstream model. The American model of librarianship education was not successful in Japan. It is expected that this study concerning Japanese librarianship education which adopted by the American model at the first time after the war in Asia will give vision for further studies in the domain of library history.

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