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| Language: | en |
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1985
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED269036 |
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- The Indivisible World. Libraries and the Myth of Cultural Exchange. The Center for the Book Viewpoint Series No. 15. Boorstin, Daniel J. Censorship Cultural Exchange Global Approach International Cooperation Libraries Library Role Library Standards National Libraries Position Papers Program Descriptions These remarks suggest that, although the world's cultures--and the culture of books--may be defined by languages, by traditions, and by historical movements, they are not confined by national boundaries: all boundaries in the world of culture and ideas are artificial and all are doomed to be dissolved. Since all culture belongs to all people, books and ideas create a boundless world, and librarians of the world are servants of an indivisible world. To keep that world indivisible is the most urgent and most difficult task for librarians. Political, economic, or military chauvinists who would like to make libraries narrowly national, and ideologues who try to sanitize the books that are published, are the enemies and saboteurs of the work of the world's librarians. The Library of Congress (LC) is attempting to serve an indivisible world of culture and books and ideas: only about one-quarter of the library's books are in English, while three-quarters are in the other languages of the world. In collecting and preserving other cultural objects--photographs, graphic art, motion pictures, music, and maps, LC tries to display the full spectrum of the cultures of mankind. Despite the cost and time-consuming nature of this effort, LC does not allow itself to be confined by the cultures of Europe and the West. (THC)