Globalizing The Library

Author : Amanda Laugesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351250900

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Globalizing the Library focuses on the globalization of information and the library in the period following the Second World War. Providing an examination of the ideas and aspirations surrounding information and the library, as well as the actual practices and actions of information professionals from the United States, Britain, and those working with organizations such as Unesco to develop library services, this book tells an important story about international history that also provides insight into the history of information, globalization, and cultural relations. Exploring efforts to help build library services and train a cohort of professional librarians around the globe, the book examines countries in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific during the period of the Cold War and decolonization. Using the ideas of ‘library diplomacy’ and ‘library imperialism’ to frame Anglo-American involvement in this work, Laugesen examines the impact library development work had on various countries. The book also considers what might have motivated nations in the global South to use foreign aid to help develop their library services and information infrastructure. Globalizing the Library prompts reflection on the way in which library services are developed and the way professional knowledge is transferred, while also illuminating the power structures that have shaped global information infrastructures. As a result, the book should be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of libraries, development, and information. It should also be of great interest to information professionals and information historians who are reflecting critically on the way information has been transferred, consumed, and shaped in the modern world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:501317309

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Globalization, Culture and Social Capital by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erik Neveu,Muriel Surdez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030520441

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Globalizing Issues by Erik Neveu,Muriel Surdez Pdf

This book is an invitation to question conventional and often misleading visions of globalization. No problem is global by nature: issues are transformed by the action of claims-makers to become ‘problems’ debated in supra-national forums, triggering policy choices and policy transformations. Contributions highlight how health issues, environmental issues and/or political issues are framed as global by a set of stakeholders (scientific experts, bureaucrats, political parties or actors, social movements, social networks, firms). As the volume maps the social logic behind the globalization of problems, it also presents an opportunity for the very cross-disciplinary collaboration it calls for: researchers mobilizing the “agenda-setting” paradigm of issue globalization and those working within the “social constructionist” model are both represented here, providing a unique opportunity to examine the dynamics of globalization from the perspectives of (political, media, economic) sociology, international relations, social movement studies, and beyond.

Author : Yelena Luckert,Lindsay Inge Carpenter
Publisher : Assoc of College & Research Libraries
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 0838989519

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The Globalized Library by Yelena Luckert,Lindsay Inge Carpenter Pdf

A collection of essays from across the world, detailing how library work is becoming globalized. The articles demonstrate new ways to address language and cultural differences, access issues abroad, the international purchase and processing of materials, and information literacy needs of students from all over the world.

Author : C R Ramamurthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8172731418

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Globalization and Library Information Networking by C R Ramamurthy Pdf

Author : Brian Blouet
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1861890850

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Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century by Brian Blouet Pdf

This book looks at the struggle between the processes of globalization and geopolitical forces over the last 150 years. The twentieth century witnessed a struggle between geopolitical states who wanted to close off and control earth space, resources and population and globalizing ones who wished to open up the world to the free flow of ideas, goods and services. Brian W. Blouet analyzes the tug-of-war between these tendencies, the playing out of which determined the shape and behavior of today's world. Beginning his survey in the late nineteenth century, Blouet shows how the Second World War served to focus international awareness on the ramifications of global controls, and how we may be facing the end of geopolitics today.

Author : Yassine Essid,William D. Coleman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774823203

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Two Mediterranean Worlds by Yassine Essid,William D. Coleman Pdf

Why are globalizing processes unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect do these disparities have on the lives of ordinary people? The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the wealthier nations of the north shore and their poorer neighbours to the south. The divergent histories, economies, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, education systems, and political structures of these two regions lead to explanations not only for uneven globalization but also for the wave of demonstrations that have sparked unrest in North Africa and the Near East.

Author : Brian T. Edwards,Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226185088

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Globalizing American Studies by Brian T. Edwards,Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Pdf

The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studies look like? Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar offer a new standard for the field’s transnational aspiration with Globalizing American Studies. The essays here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America. The contributors explore unexpected perspectives on the international circulation of American culture: the traffic of American movies within the British Empire, the reception of the film Gone with the Wind in the Arab world, the parallels between Japanese and American styles of nativism, and new incarnations of American studies itself in the Middle East and South Asia. The essays elicit a forgotten multilateralism long inherent in American history and provide vivid accounts of post–Revolutionary science communities, late-nineteenth century Mexican border crossings, African American internationalism, Cold War womanhood in the United States and Soviet Russia, and the neo-Orientalism of the new obsession with Iran, among others. Bringing together established scholars already associated with the global turn in American studies with contributors who specialize in African studies, East Asian studies, Latin American studies, media studies, anthropology, and other areas, Globalizing American Studies is an original response to an important disciplinary shift in academia.

Author : Gijs Mom
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781789204629

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Globalizing Automobilism by Gijs Mom Pdf

Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult. Drawing on archival research as well as wide-ranging forays into popular culture, Mom reveals here the roots of the exuberance, excess, and danger that define modern automotive culture.

Author : Andrew Smith,Dimitry Anastakis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442616127

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Smart Globalization by Andrew Smith,Dimitry Anastakis Pdf

Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and the return to more interventionist industrial policies. Both sides claim to have the facts on their side. Inspired by the work of economists Ha-Joon Chang and Dani Rodrik, editors Andrew Smith and Dimitry Anastakis bring together essays from both historians and economists in this collection to test claims that wealth comes from either protectionism or free trade. With empirical research that spans more than a century of Canadian history, Smart Globalization demonstrates that Canada's success stemmed neither from complete openness to globalization or policies of isolation and self-sufficiency.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New York : United Nations
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9211302285

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World Youth Report 2003 by Anonim Pdf

Young people make up almost one fifth of the world's population, with close to 85 per cent living in developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. This publication considers the parallel realities that govern the lives of young people throughout the world, exploring the opportunities, achievements and hopes that exist for some, as well as the lost potential, inequalities, vulnerabilities and discrimination that affects many youth. This review is based on the findings of a UN expert group meeting, held in Helsinki in October 2002. Issues discussed include: current trends and priorities for global youth policy, focusing on the ten priority areas highlighted in the 1995 World Programme of Action for Youth to the year 2000 and beyond; as well as five new issues of concern that have emerged since then, focusing on the impact on young people of globalisation; information and communication technologies (ICT); HIV/AIDS; armed conflict situations; demographic changes, family structures and intergenerational relations.

Author : Ruth Rikowski
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781780630779

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Globalisation, Information and Libraries by Ruth Rikowski Pdf

This book provides an overview of the World Trade Organisation; in particular, it focuses on two of the agreements being developed at the WTO, which are due to be strengthened in 2005, and are likely to have significant implications for libraries and information: the General Agreement on Trade in Services (the GATS) and the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The book argues that the library and information profession needs to be more aware of these agreements and the way in which they threaten some of the professional ethics and principles (such as the balance in copyright). Explores a vital and very new, much undiscovered area – the WTO and libraries Brings together facts about globalisation and the WTO, libraries and information, within a wider social and theoretical perspective Draws on the author’s wealth of knowledge - building on her many published articles on this topic

Author : Joseph S. Nye,John D. Donahue
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815798194

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Governance in a Globalizing World by Joseph S. Nye,John D. Donahue Pdf

Far from being another short-lived buzzword, "globalization" refers to real changes. These changes have profound impacts on culture, economics, security, the environment—and hence on the fundamental challenges of governance. This book asks three fundamental questions: How are patterns of globalization currently evolving? How do these patterns affect governance? And how might globalism itself be governed? The first section maps the trajectory of globalization in several dimensions—economic, cultural, environmental, and political. For example, Graham Allison speculates about the impact on national and international security, and William C. Clark develops and evaluates the concepts of "environmental globalization." The second section examines the impact of globalization on governance within individual nations (including China, struggling countries in the developing world, and the industrialized democracies) and includes Elaine Kamarck's assessment of global trends in public-sector reform. The third section discusses efforts to improvise new approaches to governance, including the role of non-governmental institutions, the global dimensions of information policy, and Dani Rodrik's speculation on global economic governance.

Author : Marcelo Suarez-Orozco,Desirée Qin-Hilliard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 0520241258

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Globalization by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco,Desirée Qin-Hilliard Pdf

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Author : Shinji Yamashita,Jeremy Seymour Eades
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : 1571812563

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Globalization in Southeast Asia by Shinji Yamashita,Jeremy Seymour Eades Pdf

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.