A Search for New Insights in Librarianship: A Day of Comparative Studies.

This is a collection of conference papers given by graduate students enrolled in a seminar course in Comparative Librarianship. Topics focused on library education and library development programs in foreign countries and Southwest Wisconsin. Professor Philip Altbach opened the conference with a summary version of his paper entitled "Publishing and the Intellectual Systems." The full text of his paper is included along with the following student papers: "Bibliographical Controls and Some Other Indicators of the Status of Librarianship in Ceylon and Pakistan"; "Development of Library Education Programs in the Two Germanies since 1945"; "Comparative Studies: Onions? or the Emperor's New Clothes?" (comments about the characteristics of comparative librarianship); "Indicators of Library Development: Counties of Southwest Wisconsin"; "Indicators of Library Development: Latin America"; and "A Comparison of Jamaican and Puerto Rican Library Development." Figures and statistical data are included in some of the papers. (JPF)