A Report of the Cooperative Study by the Society Members COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF EDUCATION FOR LIBRARIANSHIP IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES
1966 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 139
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1966 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 139
Recent developments in library fields, such as in academic, school, public and special, placed high responsibilities on professional librarians who collect, organize and serve library materials and informations. It is very important to establish the theory, curriculum and methods of our own training program in order to achieve educational, cultural, scientific and technological advancements in our country.
As a preliminary study for the establishment of our training program, the society members have surveyed professional training programs for librarianship in various countries and compared them with ours. This is an interim report of the study which started in 1963. Twenty-nine members (twenty-six in 1964) had taken the places in this study. They were organized in five different groups to pursue five different aspects of the problem. This cooperative study was supported by the Grant in Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education of Japan.
The leaders and the thema are as follows:
1. Generalization (Training program for professional librarians in various countries) ・・・・・・・・・・ Masakatsu Itoh
2. Comparative study of education for college and university librarians ・・・・・・・・・・ Yutaka Fujita
3. Factual survey and comparative study of education for school librarianship ・・・・・・・・・・ Tsuneyoshi Fukagawa
4. Comparative study of education and in-service training for public librarians ・・・・・・・・・・ Toranosuke Takeda
5. Comparative study of education for documentalists and librarians in special libraries ・・・・・・・・・・ Masanobu Fujikawa
