The Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo
Abstract
12 policy statements, in which 4 are during the former, 3 during the middle, 5 during the later Occupation Period (1945-1952) in Japan, are analyzed to investigate the course of library policies at the Education Division of the Civil Information and Education Section (CIE). General Headquarters, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (GHQ/SCAP). In result we indicate that the national plan with public libraries made by P. O. Keeney was not taken over by his successors after his dismissal in April 1947,and that important library policies were begun by those except the libraries officers. And we consider that there was a concept of library developments among those of the CIE but there was no single continuing policy with the library
