Books, libraries, reading, and publishing in the Cold War
By: edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu and Martine Poulain.
Contributors: Anghelescu, Hermina G. B.; Poulain, Martine.; IFLA Round Table on Library History.; Center for the Book.
Publisher: Library of Congress, Center for the Book
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Books and reading -- Communist countries -- Congresses.; Censorship -- Communist countries -- Congresses.; Cold War -- Influence -- Congresses.; Libraries and communism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Libraries & culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Based on the conference Books, Libraries, Reading, and Publishing in the Cold War, organized by the IFLA Round Table on Library History, Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB), Villeurbanne centre de formation aux carrières de bibliothèques (Médiadix) Paris assisted by the IFLA Section on Reading"--T.p. verso.
Originally published in Libraries & Culture, v. 36, no. 1, Winter 2001.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Session 1: Books during the Cold War 1 "With malice toward none": IFLA and the Cold War Donald G. Davis, Jr. (U.S.A.), assisted by Nathaniel Feis 16 A Soviet Research Library Remembered Edward Kasinec (U.S.A.) 27 The Overseas Libraries Controversy and the Freedom to Read: U.S. Librarians and Publishers ConfrontJoseph McCarthy Louise S. Robbins (U.S.A.) 40 The Effect of the Cold War on Librarianship in China Cheng Huanwen (China) 51 Political Censorship in Finnish Libraries from 1944 to 1946 Kai Ekholm (Finland) 58 Books and Libraries as Instruments of Cultural Diplomacy in Francophone Africa during the Cold War Mary Niles Maack (U.S.A.) Session 2: Publishing during the Cold War 87 Censors and Their Readers: Selling, Silencing, and Reading Czech Books Jifina Smejkalovd (Czech Republic) 104 Control of Literary Communication in the 1945-1956 Period in Poland Oskar Stanislaw Czarnik (Poland) 116 International Harmony: Threat or Menace? U.S. Youth Services Librarians and Cold War Censorship, 1946-1955 ChristineJenkins (U.SA.) 131 Le Comite de Defense de la Litterature et de la Presse pour la Jeunesse: The Communists and the Press for Children during the Cold War Thierry Crepin (France) Session 3: Reading during the Cold War 143 Reading in the Context of Censorship in the Soviet Union Valeria D. Stelmakh (Russia) 152 Symbolic Censorship and Control of Appropriations: The French Communist Party Facing "Heretical" Texts during the Cold War Bernard Pudal (France) 162 American Literature in Cold War Germany Martin Meyer (Germany) 172 A Cold War Best-Seller: The Reaction to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon in France from 1945 to 1950 Martine Poulain (France) 185 Library Secret Fonds and the Competition of Societies Istvdn Kirdly (Romania) Session 4: Libraries during the Cold War 193 Cold War Librarianship: Soviet and American Library Activities in Support of National Foreign Policy, 1946-1991 Pamela Spence Richards (U.SA.) 204 Foreign Libraries in the Mirror of Soviet Library Science during the Cold War Boris Volodin (Russia) 211 Finland Pays Its Debts and Gets Books in Return: ASLA Grants to the Finnish Academic Libraries, 1950-1967 Ilkka Makinen (Finland) 233 Romanian Libraries Recover after the Cold War: The Communist Legacy and the Road Ahead Hermina G.B. Anghelescu (U.SA.) 253 Leaning to One Side: The Impact of the Cold War on Chinese Library Collections Priscilla C. Yu (U.SA.) 267 The Bookplate Martin Manning.