Publishing and Development in the Third World. Edited by Philip G. Altbach.

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  • Norman Horrocks Scarecrow Press

Author Biography

Norman Horrocks, Scarecrow Press

Norman Horrocks is Vice President, Editorial, for Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, and Adjunct Professor, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has been a librarian in Britain, Cyprus, and Australia, has taught at the library schools in Pittsburgh, Hawaii, and Dalhousie University, Canada (where he was Director of the program), and has lectured at the schools in Jamaica and Taiwan. Dr. Horrocks has chaired the International Relations Committee and the International Relations Round Table of the American Library Association, and the International Committee of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. He is current President of the international honor society for library and information science, Beta Phi Mu, and Chair of the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues of the American Society for Information Science. From 1980 to 1986 he chaired the Overseas Book Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the Canadian Organization for Development through Education, and served on its national executive.

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (1992)

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Book Reviews

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