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"The United States is a very im
portant country in terms of
librarianship. The Soviets follow
what we do, particularly our use
of computers in cataloging, cir
culation, acquisitions, serials con
trols, and reference," Robertson
says.
Robertson and colleagues
toured prestigious libraries im
Moscow, Leningrad and Riga,
where they were frequently
treated to a true librarians' delight
— rare book collections, a Soviet
forte. Head librarians proudly
displayed Voltaire's personal
library, letters from George
Washington to Russian tsars, and
the famed eleventh-century
Ostromir Gospel.
The U.S. librarians noticed some
rather amazing differences bet
ween the Soviet and American ap
proaches to the profession of
librarianship, and the role of a
library.
Essentially, Soviet librarianship
is a female-dominated, high status
profession with males gravitating
to top administrative positions.
The bulk of Soviet librarians only
complete a bachelor's degree pro
gram with technical and general
subject training that includes a
focus on librarianship.
"When you get into upper levels
of research, it requires a much
stronger subject training outside
of librarianship. If you work at one
of the big libraries you are trained
more extensively 'on the job' and
chances are you will stay at that
library," Robertson says.
Although some claim Soviet
technology is leaping ahead in the
arms race, Robertson noticed that
most Soviet public libraries can't
compare with sophisticated
automation at work at the Univer
sity in terms of computerized
library procedures.
Soviet libraries manage quite
well with methods that have long
been considered rudimentary and
outdated by their American
counterparts, such as manual card
production, still a traditional
mode in the U.S.S.R. At the
University, as well as most other
American public libraries, a
librarian "calls up" a catalog
record in the computer, pushes
'produce" and the computer
comes up with the card. Soviet
libraries, on the other hand, take
advantage of an ample labor force
and employ a room full of typists
to sit at a typewriter and produce
cards.
Robertson did see impressive
state-of-the-art Hewlitt-Packard
and Japanese computers in
research libraries of the Academy
of Science, where the atmosphere
is less centralized.
Robertson attributes the
technological lag in Soviet public
libraries to the extensive influence
of a centralized state. Unlike
Americans, Soviets don't think in
a way conducive to "free
wheeling" or "networking," a
method in which American
libraries cooperate to pool infor
mation and materials.
"Their methods are all rudimen
tary by U. S. standards but that's
just because efficiency is not as
important as control in the Soviet
Union,” he says.
“From their point of view they
are serving the public, because
the people who should get access
to materials are seeing those
materials," he says.
Robertson thinks the Soviets
are headed toward automation in
libraries, but indicates the Soviets
are cautious with anything that
deals with the dissemination of
information.
Despite a demanding schedule
of library tours, the librarians
were given plenty of free time to
sightsee on their own, converse
with Soviets, and form impres
sions about daily life.
As a result, Robertson
discovered a prosperity greater
than he had expected. Coinciding
with Robertson's view of prosperi
ty were constant billboards and
slogans proclaiming Andropov as
a benevolent peacemaker
presiding over a thriving Soviet
state.
Robertson adds that the official
line and personal remarks of
Soviet citizens reinforced his opi
nion that Americans don't proper
ly understand the repurcussions
of war like the Soviet people and
that the "foolishly aggressive"
Reagan government is forcing the
United States into a military
stance.
"One elder doorman even told
me that Reagan is our Stalin." he
says.
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