Library Automation in Transitional Societies: Lessons from Eastern Europe by Andrew Lass (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College)
This is a collection of papers from a 1997 conference that attempted to assess the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's efforts to modernize Eastern European libraries after the fall of communism. Looking primarily at Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, the international panel of contributors cover library automation, library policy, and management strategy.