Dissertation Information for James Howard Fraser NAME: - James Howard Fraser
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1972)
ADVISORS: - Frances Henne
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Alice Bryan - Theodore C. Hines - Maurice Tauber
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: FOREIGN LANGUAGE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES: AN INQUIRY INTO THE COLLECTING PATTERNS OF RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS TOGETHER WITH A PROPOSAL FOR A NATIONAL ACQUISITIONS PLAN FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE JUVENILIA
Abstract: Acquisition of children's literature for research purposes has been an accepted activity in the United States for more than a century, although the reasons for gathering have not always been well defined with the result that many institutions have
duplicated the efforts of others while neglecting broad areas of this literature. This situation is particularly noticeable in the area of foreign language children's literature in the post-World War II period.
Activity in this specialized area of-acquisition has been examined by: (1) identifying the types of U. S. institutions (public. academic,
special, national, and ethnic) gathering such material (2) describing
in text and tabular form the nature ofthe collections within the
sample, (3) describing the means by which the material was gathered.
The identification of the collections was made possible through guides to special and subject collections and the writer's knowledge of additional col1ections not heretofore described in published guides. The nature of the twenty-three collections of the sample was determined by personally visiting and counting the holdings and arranging the imprint information in chronological order by national and language subdivisions. Data on the means of acquisition were acquired through interview with the curators. Evaluation of holdings in relation to production was made through comparison with the writer's compilation of book production statistics.
The study is divided into three sections: The first section examines the types of libraries acquiring foreign language juvenilia. The second section deals with the national programs of acquisition and their respective positions on juvenilia. The third section contains a suggested national plan for correcting the present erratic approach to the acquisition of foreign language juvenilia.
Following are several conclusions which were supported by the data gathered: 1. Existing Collections of foreign children's literature consist primarily of material in book form. 2. Materials in the collections described in published guides are usually acquired with the primary purpose of preserving examples of foreign language children's books having high graphic and literary quality. 3. This general qualitative concern has resulted in considerable duplication at the expense of materials from countries where juvenilia does not conform to established standards of quality. 4. The two national plans which currently permit the acquisition of juvenilia (National Program for Acquisition and Cataloging and the Public law 480 Program) follow-the narrow approach
of acquiring solely that juvenilia having'a high level of ' graphic or literary quality.
5. Generally neglected forms are the book of mediocre or poor quality but great popularity; the children's periodical, and newspaper; the phonorecording; the calendars of radio and T.V. broadcasting; the children's film; the children's boxed game.
6. Generally neglected gegraphic regions and languages are languages of the Soviet Union other than Russian and Ukrainian;
minority language titles from most countries; minor Germanic languages; Rumanian; Hungarian; Albanian; Arabic language materials; South East Asian materials .
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