Communism, as an ideological and political force and the enormous
role it played in world history from the Russian Revolution through the
collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, remains a thing of the past in
C&EE. As the ongoing legacies of the cold war fade in C&EE and Russia,
there is hope for increasing social and civic confidence through library
usage. Libraries have transitioned from indoctrination agencies to information
centers; highly centralized management schemes have been replaced
by more participatory managerial styles. Libraries have also been
shifting their role from repositories of cultural values and custodians of
national heritage treasures to information centers open to all. Adoption
of new information and communication technologies has enabled C&EE
and Russian libraries to maintain their presence on the internet and to
begin sharing their digitized resources worldwide.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89797
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2014.0035
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