A study on influences of Americap Librarianship on post-war library policies in Japan

我们试图在美国的以下图书馆和档案馆找到未被发现的历史文献。V.W. Clapp Papers，Luther Evans Papers，Archibald MacLeish Papers（美国国会图书馆）2.战时和战后文件（国家档案馆和记录管理局II）3。洛克菲勒基金会档案，查尔斯·法赫文件（洛克菲勒档案中心）4。美国图书馆协会档案馆（伊利乌瓦大学（乌尔巴瓦尚潘）档案馆）5.纽约卡内基公司档案馆（哥伦比亚大学档案馆）6.贾斯汀威廉姆斯论文和普兰奇收集（马里兰州，麦克尔丁图书馆大学）7。菲利普奥林和玛丽简基尼论文（加州大学（伯克利），班克罗夫特图书馆）我们有一个假设，即当时的美国文化外交间接影响了战后日本的图书馆政策。通过对这些文献和手稿的调查，我们得出了以下初步结论：二战期间，美国图书馆集中支持战争服务，战后它们参与了国际文化合作的国家计划。特别是普里切顿会议对图书馆员进入包括联合国教科文组织在内的新的国际舞台具有重要意义。在会议上，他们讨论了如何发展国家书目服务和如何推进国际图书馆合作。我们认为，会议上的建议是日本占领时期图书馆政策的来源之一。

We have tried to find out undiscovered historical documents at the following libraries and archives in the United States.1. V. W. Clapp Papers, Luther Evans Papers, Archibald MacLeish Papers (Library of Congress)2. Wartime, and postwar documents (National Archives and Record Administration II)3. Rockefeller Foundation Archives, Charles Fahs Papers (Rockefeller Archival Center)4. American Library Association Archives (University of Illiuois (Urbaua Champaign) Archives)5. Carnegie Corporation of New York Archives (Columbia University Archives)6. Justin Williams Papers and Prange Collection (University of Maryland, McKeldin Library)7. Phillip Olin ＆ Mary Jane Keeney Papers (University of California (Berkeley), Bancroft Library)We had a hypothesis that American cultural diplomacy in those days indirectly influenced the post-war library policies in Japan. Through investigating those documents and manuscripts we drew the following temporary conclusion; During the WW2, American libraries were centralized to support the War service and after the War they participated the national program for the international cultural cooperation. Especially the Priuceton Conference was important for the librarians to go into the new international scene including founding the Unesco. At the conference they discussed how to develop national bibliographic services and how to advance international library cooperation. We consider recommendations at the conference were ones of the sources from which the library policy would appear during the Occupation Period in Japan.