International Book and Reading Activities Expand
Posted: 07 May 2009, 01:13
In 1997, the Center for the Book marked its 20th anniversary of promoting books, reading and libraries (see the LC Information Bulletin, December 1997).
The international side of the center's activities has focused on projects developed in cooperation with UNESCO, the U.S. publishing community, the U.S. Information Agency or other U.S. government agencies and Library of Congress area studies divisions.
Early Center for the Book projects resulted in several publications, including: The International Flow of Information: A Trans-Pacific Perspective (1981); U.S. International Book Programs 1981 (1982); U.S. Books Abroad: Neglected Ambassadors, by Curtis G. Benjamin (1984); and, with the Library's Asian Division, Multiple Meanings: The Written Word in Japan (1986). In 1987, the International Book Committee, an advisory committee to UNESCO, presented the Center for the Book with its International Book Award, in recognition of the center's "imaginative and practical campaigns on behalf of books and reading."
The international side of the center's activities has focused on projects developed in cooperation with UNESCO, the U.S. publishing community, the U.S. Information Agency or other U.S. government agencies and Library of Congress area studies divisions.
Early Center for the Book projects resulted in several publications, including: The International Flow of Information: A Trans-Pacific Perspective (1981); U.S. International Book Programs 1981 (1982); U.S. Books Abroad: Neglected Ambassadors, by Curtis G. Benjamin (1984); and, with the Library's Asian Division, Multiple Meanings: The Written Word in Japan (1986). In 1987, the International Book Committee, an advisory committee to UNESCO, presented the Center for the Book with its International Book Award, in recognition of the center's "imaginative and practical campaigns on behalf of books and reading."