1999 Volume 45 Issue 1 Pages 1-16
During the Occupation Period (1945-1952) there were some American librarians who visited Japan and helped to reconstruct new library services in Japan, as an library administrators, as consultants and as educators of librarianship. This article is to analyze papers left at the ALA Archives, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library, which records those activities to send, select and communicate with, them, of ALA/IRB (International Relations Board) Committee of Library Cooperation with the Orient and South Pacific. The chairman was the former ALA President Charles H. Brown. He showed the willingness to contribute to the educational reform by developing public libraries and school libraries when the First US Education Mission to Japan was sent in March 1946. But the focus was shifted from the library administration to such more indirect ones as training librarians after the first libraries officer Philip O. Keeney was discharged from his job for being sus-pected as a communist. It is not only because the occupation policy of the GHQ/SCAP (General Head Quarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) was shifted from liberal one to one which was reflected the Cold War anti-communism in 1947, but because Keeney had acted politically against the ALA in late 1930s during and after his tenure dispute.
