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Article: Romania's libraries: a long road to Europe.
- Article from:
- T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1992
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Since 1989, what until recently was called Eastern Europe has seen the creation and expansion of numerous development programs. In the 1990/91 academic year, the U.S. Fulbright program sponsored 23 lecturers and researchers in Romania alone. University lectureships were extended to experts in law, economics, finance, journalism and other disciplines not welcome during the long dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. I was invited to spend a semester lecturing librarianship at the University of Cluj-Napoca, in the heart of Transylvania.
The present situation in Romania's academic libraries reflects Western European attitudes of the 1950s, according to representatives of ...