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Empire of the mind: Subscription libraries, literacy & acculturation in the colonies of the British Empire.

机译：心灵帝国：大英帝国殖民地的订阅图书馆，读写能力和文化适应。

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In his ground-breaking Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson declared that the census, map and museum shaped the manner in which the colony imagined its dominion, the nature of the colonized, the geography of the colony and the ancestral right of the colonizer to rule. 1 The author's analysis not only highlighted the impact of print-culture within a colonial setting but also created an opportunity to explore how other information gathering institutions may have contributed to the social and cultural development of both the metropolis and the colony. This dissertation is designed to build upon Anderson's work through an analysis of the social and cultural roles subscription libraries played throughout the colonies of the British Empire.2 By analyzing British government documents, library annual reports and a variety of secondary sources, this study will assess the history, growth and development of subscription librarianship in the colonies of Jamaica, Malaysia and Nigeria as a microcosm for British-controlled areas of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa respectively. This dissertation will argue that colonial subscription library development was a key component of "Neo-Macaulayism" which advocated the cultural enfranchisement and intellectual development of the indigenous elite to maintain a fully functioning colonial government bureaucracy against the threats of disloyalty and illiteracy.;;1Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. (London: Verso, 1991), 163-164. 2For the purpose of this study, the term 'subscription library' will be defined as follows: A type of library that developed in Britain during the second half of the 18th century, whose members paid annual dues or a subscription fee in exchange for the privilege of using library materials and services. And for the purpose of this study, the term 'public library' will be defined as follows: A library or library system that provides unrestricted access to library resources and services free of charge to all the residents of a given community, district or geographic region, supported wholly or in part by public funds. Both definitions can be found in Joan M. Reitz, ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 2002. Online. Available from http://vax.wcsu.edu/library/odlis.html. Accessed May 3, 2008.
机译：本尼迪克特·安德森（Benedict Anderson）在开创性的“想象中的社区”中宣布，人口普查，地图和博物馆塑造了该殖民地想象其统治地位的方式，殖民地的性质，殖民地的地理以及殖民者的统治权。 1作者的分析不仅突出了印刷文化在殖民地环境中的影响，而且为探索其他信息收集机构如何为都市和殖民地的社会和文化发展做出贡献提供了机会。本论文旨在通过分析整个大英帝国殖民地图书馆在社会和文化上的作用来分析安德森的工作。2通过分析英国政府文件，图书馆年度报告和各种次要资源，本研究将评估牙买加，马来西亚和尼日利亚殖民地订阅图书馆学的历史，增长和发展，分别是英国控制的加勒比海，亚洲和非洲地区的缩影。本论文将论证殖民地订阅图书馆的发展是“新澳门主义”的关键组成部分，该思想提倡土著精英的文化权和智力发展，以维持功能齐全的殖民地政府官僚机构，以抵御不忠和文盲的威胁。；； 1本尼迪克特安德森想象中的社区：对民族主义起源和传播的反思。 （伦敦：Verso，1991），163-164。 2就本研究而言，“订阅图书馆”一词的定义如下：一种在18世纪下半叶在英国发展起来的图书馆，其会员每年缴纳会费或订阅费以换取特权使用图书馆资料和服务。为了本研究的目的，“公共图书馆”一词的定义如下：一个图书馆或图书馆系统，可为给定社区，地区或地理区域的所有居民免费提供图书馆资源和服务的无限制访问，全部或部分由公共资金支持。可以在Joan M. Reitz的ODLIS：《图书馆与信息科学在线词典》（2002年）中找到这两个定义。可从http://vax.wcsu.edu/library/odlis.html获得。 2008年5月3日访问。

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