Caribbean Libraries In The Twenty-first Century: Changes, Challenges And Choices

摘要

As both the foreword and the preface to this work emphasize there has been very little previous writing about librarianship in the Caribbean with Alma Jordan's The Development of Library Service in the West Indies through InterHbrary Cooperation (Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1970) a lonely and much cited exception. One can therefore only applaud the initiative and industry of the editors in producing the present volume. The organization of its content as described in the preface sounds like a major military campaign: collecting 36 proposals from 55 contributors, whittling these down to 25 papers from 41 authors and having these reviewed by a panel of four external reviewers: past and present University Librarians of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Stephney Ferguson and Margaret Rouse-Jones and well-known UK professional figures Derek Law and Maurice Line.