The Development of Education for Librarian Training in Japan after the World War II

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24500302
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Kinki University Junior College Division
• Principal Investigator: KAWAHARA Akiyo 近畿大学短期大学部, その他部局等, 准教授 (70331741)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MATSUZAKI Hiroko 就実大学, 人文科学部, 講師 (60594124) ; MIURA Taro 明治大学, 文学部, 准教授 (40361597)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): NEMOTO Akira 東京大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (90172759)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 図書館職員養成教育 / 司書講習 / 図書館員 / 図書館史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There stored documents with respect to the development of education for librarian training after the WWII in the University of Tokyo. But as they were deteriorated, it was difficult to use them. By using budget for the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, we promoted the conservation treatment and the data digitization of these documents.
Using the digitized documents about the librarian training courses which were held after the WWII, we studied and examined the characteristics of postwar Japanese library education system. At the beginning, the courses were started as the incumbents’education for the public libraries and planned to last for only five years, but they were seen as librarian training paths in the local governmental administration system and maintained after that.
Besides, we summarized the recommendations for the incumbents’education of the school librarians, which will be necessary in case that the school librarian qualification system be created in the near future.

Free Research Field

図書館情報学