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Library Legislation in Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2019

Juan R. Freudenthal*
Affiliation:
School of Library Science, Simmons, College, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

Extract

“Library legislation in our century… tends toward the bureaucratization of services rather than to establish scientific procedures for library economy and provide guidelines for administrative action”.

Type
National Report: Chile
Copyright
Copyright © International Association of Law Libraries 1974 

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References

1 Guillermo Feliú Cruz, El problema bibliotecario national (Santiago de Chile: Biblioteca Nacional, 1963,) viii.Google Scholar

2 A facsimile of this proclamation appears in Mapocho, Anejo del No. 3 (Octubre de 1963), 7.Google Scholar

3 A complete discussion of this legal deposit regulation appears in Juan R. Freudenthal's “Development and Current Status of Bibliographic Organization in Chile” (unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, The University of Michigan, 1972), 296–301.Google Scholar

4 A more detailed list of regulations concerned with the development of libraries in Chile can be found in Freudenthal's “Development…” op. cit., 308–312.Google Scholar

5 As far as this author could ascertain in 1971, very few high schools in Chile were providing adequate library services to the student body.Google Scholar