TY - JOUR
T1 - International Mind Alcoves
T2 - The Carnegie Endowment for international peace, libraries, and the struggle for global public opinion, 1917-54
AU - Witt, Steven W.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - In 1918, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) partnered with libraries to develop International Mind Alcove collections in the United States and abroad. These collections aimed to help put an end to war by encouraging international understanding and developing cosmopolitan perspectives across the globe. During the programme's forty-year history, the alcoves grew from a group of small informal collections to a well-funded and highly organized operation. As the programme evolved, it utilized libraries, books, and the media to advocate for internationalism, educate the public about other nations, and instil cross-cultural understanding in children before they became embroiled in political controversy. The Mind Alcove programme and the work of librarians in its creation represents a significant episode in library history, placing the library profession within the early twentieth-century development of international organizations and global information networks that are the forerunners of contemporary international non-governmental organizations and global social movements.
AB - In 1918, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) partnered with libraries to develop International Mind Alcove collections in the United States and abroad. These collections aimed to help put an end to war by encouraging international understanding and developing cosmopolitan perspectives across the globe. During the programme's forty-year history, the alcoves grew from a group of small informal collections to a well-funded and highly organized operation. As the programme evolved, it utilized libraries, books, and the media to advocate for internationalism, educate the public about other nations, and instil cross-cultural understanding in children before they became embroiled in political controversy. The Mind Alcove programme and the work of librarians in its creation represents a significant episode in library history, placing the library profession within the early twentieth-century development of international organizations and global information networks that are the forerunners of contemporary international non-governmental organizations and global social movements.
KW - Foreign policy
KW - Globalization
KW - Internationalism
KW - Libraries
KW - Non-governmental organizations
KW - Propaganda
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U2 - 10.1179/1758348914Z.00000000068
DO - 10.1179/1758348914Z.00000000068
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84922994382
SN - 1758-3489
VL - 30
SP - 273
EP - 290
JO - Library and Information History
JF - Library and Information History
IS - 4
ER -