ABSTRACT
Many library development projects were undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s. These included Unesco-sponsored pilot public library projects, including the public libraries built at Delhi in India and Enugu in Nigeria, as well as a variety of public, university, and school libraries. Library services were developed to put into action the ideals professed by librarians. This work also assisted in technical transfer, with methods and technologies introduced into the library practices of developing nations. Library collections were also built up with the assistance of Western librarians and funding, but often dominated by factors such as the commercial imperatives of Anglo-American publishing. All of this work, this chapter argues, not only served to help globalize the library and internationalize the profession but also reflected the dominance of Western assumptions, preoccupations, and concerns.
