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Student Digital Library:
IS 297 Information Institutions
(These are original papers of high quality authored by students of this course)
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The Rise and Demise of the United States Information Agency Libraries
Diane Mizrachi
Cultural diplomacy is a mechanism nations use to disseminate information about their culture, people, heritage, and political ideologies around the world in order to increase understanding and solidarity, and ultimately to advance their national interests. The United States , like other nations, has always engaged in actions of cultural diplomacy, but began intensifying them programmatically after World War II in light of the Cold War with the Soviet Union . In 1953 the United States Information Agency (USIA) was established and eventually assumed responsibilities for television and radio broadcasts (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Marti), the Fulbright scholarships and other educational exchanges, foreign language publications about the United States , and American exhibits and participation in World Fairs... |
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The World Wide Web Consortium
Alla Zollers
INTRODUCTION: Imagine a world where you have to use a special browser in order to access online information outside of the US, or a world where a person that is utilizing a PC would not be able to view the same web pages as a person using a Mac. We could speculate that in such a world, the diversity, popularity, and spectacular growth of the Internet would not have been possible. Only through worldwide standardization of the ways in which web pages are coded, displayed, and accessed has the World Wide Web been able to flourish into the international phenomenon that it is today, and also become a vital part of our lives...
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