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1976
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- A Search for New Insights in Librarianship: A Day of Comparative Studies. Williamson, William L., Ed. Comparative Analysis Developing Nations Development Foreign Countries Libraries Library Associations Library Education Library Role Library Services National Libraries Public Libraries Publishing Industry This is a collection of conference papers given by graduate students enrolled in a seminar course in Comparative Librarianship. Topics focused on library education and library development programs in foreign countries and Southwest Wisconsin. Professor Philip Altbach opened the conference with a summary version of his paper entitled "Publishing and the Intellectual Systems." The full text of his paper is included along with the following student papers: "Bibliographical Controls and Some Other Indicators of the Status of Librarianship in Ceylon and Pakistan"; "Development of Library Education Programs in the Two Germanies since 1945"; "Comparative Studies: Onions? or the Emperor's New Clothes?" (comments about the characteristics of comparative librarianship); "Indicators of Library Development: Counties of Southwest Wisconsin"; "Indicators of Library Development: Latin America"; and "A Comparison of Jamaican and Puerto Rican Library Development." Figures and statistical data are included in some of the papers. (JPF)