"The Library of Congress' Center for the Book surveys 32 book and book-related programs carried out by governmental, inter-governmental and private agencies in the U.S. to promote books and reading. In an introductory essay John B. Putnam discusses "The Book Crisis in the Developing World," and an appendix describes the activities of two important but now defunct organizations, Franklin Book Programs (1952-78) and the U.S. Government Advisory Committee on International Book and Library Programs (1962-77). Two earlier government publications are Books in Human Development, a 1965 report on a conference sponsored by American University and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Who Is Doing What in International Book and Library Programs (1967), the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the International Relations Office of the American Library Association." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1025)