... of continuing education for librarians. It also demonstrates the impact of Japan's social and historical environment on job advertisements and related research. Naoki Matsumoto can be contacted at: matsumoton@keio.jp 23 04 2022 17 08 2022 06 09 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited...

...Yasuyo Inoue Purpose The purpose of this paper is to proffer the view that the activities of libraries in Japan are central to the democratic process. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a viewpoint. Findings This paper demonstrates librarians’ and library users’ views of libraries...

... investigated how customers perceive library functions and assessed the actual activities of Echigawa Library (Shiga prefecture, Japan). Two consecutive analyses were conducted: factor analysis and cluster analysis in order to segment the customers into individual groups based on their perception of libraries...

... principal and senior extension advisors and a consultant from different prefectures and organizations as well as questionnaires from 135 extension advisors in the Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Findings Results show that the Japanese agricultural agencies are actively involved in facilitating an integrated...

...Kenji Kanna Provides a general description of the movement for library services for children and children’s libraries, together with the modern public library movement in post‐war Japan. The Bunko as a home library, or a community‐based small library, is quite characteristic of Japan...

...Toyohiro Hasegawa Up until now, university and college libraries in Japan have managed to cope with various changing elements. The ever‐increasing costs of serials publications have been met thanks to the steady yearly increase of library budgets, the yen’s appreciation and the efforts...