The Innovative Role of National Supporting Agencies for Developing Library and Information Science: with reference to BLRDD and CLR
1996 Volume 42 Issue 1 Pages 49-56
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1996 Volume 42 Issue 1 Pages 49-56
I had a chance to learn about grants made by The British Library Research and Development Department in London and the Council on Library Resources in Washington in my studies designed to produce an institutional vision of supporting research and development in the field of library and information science in Japan.
In this article，I have tried to elucidate contributions of the two agencies to the librarianship and research communities，reviewing their histories，management process and some features of research areas which meet their standards of providing grants.
The results are below:
① leading experimental research activities through grants.
② aiding the development of a research community.
③ improvement and invention of library services，and their dissemination among libraries.
④ planning and implementation of various kinds of meeting for researchers and librarians.
