The Library/Book Fellows Program

Authors

  • Robert P. Doyle American Library Association

Abstract

Describes the American Library Association program, established in 1987, that has sent U.S. librarians to libraries around the world to carry out special projects. The program is funded by the United States Information Agency (USIA). Each year, eight to 10 individuals are selected, based upon requests from libraries (or other educational or cultural institutions) in other countries for assistance in particular activities. Individuals of the first three groups of Fellows are identified, and their projects summarized. The proposal and selection process is outlined.

Author Biography

Robert P. Doyle, American Library Association

Robert P. Doyle has been Director, Library/Book Fellows Program, American Library Association, since the program began in October 1986. He had worked previously for A.L.A., in the Office for Intellectual Freedom, and was a frequent speaker on censorship issues as well as the editor of Freedom to Read Foundation News. Mr. Doyle coordinated the IFLA conference in Chicago, 1984. A graduate of the university of Notre Dame, he went on to take his M.L.S. a the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from UWM in 1989. His library experience includes positions at the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and at the Oak Lawn (Illinois) Public Library. He has published in American Libraries, Nation, Index on Censorship, Principal, and Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, and has contributed to the ALA Yearbook and the Bowker Annual.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (1991)

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