Dissertation Information for Hector Maymi-Sugranes NAME: - Hector Maymi-Sugranes
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) (1996)
ADVISORS: - Edwin-Michael Cortez
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Louise S. Robbins - Wayne A. Wiegand - Leigh Ann Payne
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Modernizing underdevelopment: Inter-American library relations (1890-1974)
Abstract: It is impossible to understand Latin American library and librarianship development from 1890 to 1974 without an analysis of Inter-American library relations. Although Inter-American library relations assisted the American library establishment in its quest to devise an international librarianship, their major impact was on Latin American libraries and librarianship. Inside Inter-American relations, American librarianship was the centerpiece and the model to which Latin American countries were to aspire.
In Latin America, the influence of American librarianship through Inter-American library relations was highly significant. In turn, reactions of Latin American librarians to such influence were largely positive. These librarians saw a good model in American librarianship, one that many of them wished to emulate. The challenge was how to translate that model into a different reality. The American model did not completely work there, and in failing to do so, it diminished the effectiveness of many initiatives carried out through the avenue of Inter-American library relations. Another problem that surfaced was that American librarians, U.S. government officials, and international organization workers wanted to do things their way. Thus, the activities consummated through Inter-American library relations had a major impact on Latin American libraries and librarianship, although in their implementation there were problems that limited the scope of their influence.
Basically, the ideas, theories, and ideologies promoted in Inter-American library relations were part of the historical binomial that in this study has been called Benefactor vs. Imperial-Paternalist motives. These motives were intricately involved in guiding Inter-American relations, and they were constantly in competition with each other. Sponsorship of "modern" models could respond to one or of both of these motives; the attempt to modernize Latin America from afar cut across political and ideological projects. Thus, when the Benefactor Motive was present in U.S.-Latin American relations, and these relations were conducted along horizontal lines, the goal of Inter-American relations was to modernize. When the Imperial-Paternalist Motive was prominent and the relationship turned into one of imposition from the more powerful toward the weaker, the "modern" model was present there, too. In conclusion, the "modern" model was the driving force of the relationship studied in this thesis, and the modernizing thrust still guided the relationship as late as the final moments of the Alliance for Progress.
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