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National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report to the President of the United States presents a summary of the planning, proceedings, and resolutions of the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. Questions the delegates addressed to the conference included: Do libraries, the traditional storehouses of information and knowledge, have a place in this fast moving…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Information Services, Libraries, Library Services
Peer reviewedAman, Mohammed M. – International Library Review, 1980
Two thousand participants attended the White House Conference which focused on five broad user-oriented themes structured under the umbrella theme of "Bringing Information to People"--Library and Information Services for...(1) Personal Needs, (2) Lifelong Learning, (3) Governing Society, (4) Business and the Professions, and (5)…
Descriptors: Conferences, Federal Aid, Libraries, Library Cooperation
Download full textASPBAE Courier Service, 1982
This issue contains those materials from a seminar on "Campaigning for Literacy" held at Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, on January 4-11, 1982, that concentrate on Asian experience. The "Udaipur Literacy Declaration," presented first, is followed by extracts from the opening addresses and a review of the report, "Campaigning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developing Nations
Spruit, Ed; And Others – 1981
Three papers and a brief report on audiovisual services and the agencies providing them in three countries of western Europe include: (1) "National Service to Public Libraries in the Field of Audiovisual Media: The Situation in the Netherlands," by Ed Spruit, who discusses problems concerned with the inclusion of audiovisual media in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Foreign Countries, International Organizations, Library Services
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Environmental Education Section. – 1985
Designed for the purpose of furthering exchange of information and experience in the field of environmental education, this document contains an overview of nonformal environmental education development in six countries. Reports on the countries were presented during the Subregional Training Workshop on Nonformal Environmental Education for Asia…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Montreal (Quebec). – 1979
These papers discuss various options for a computerized national bibliographic network and highlight the problems and potential of developing such a database. Following a brief explanation of the conference purpose and organization, 10 primary papers are presented: (1) "A Brief Overview of Computerized Library Networking in Canada," by…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Higher Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1984
This document reports on a seminar that included country presentations and selected materials on the training of distance educators by participants from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, and Sri Lanka, Part I provides an analysis of the current situation in the training of distance education…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Developing Nations, Distance Education, Educational Media
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. – 1978
This account of the 93rd meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) presents both the Washington and ARL perspectives on national library planning with emphasis on periodicals, bibliographic control, and libraries and information services. These viewpoints are presented by six speakers on two panels with a discussion following each…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Committees, Conference Reports
Morrow, Carolyn Clark, Ed. – 1991
This report presents some of the prominent features of a national invitational conference whose goal was to provide a national forum to discuss ongoing preservation efforts in individual states; describe the preservation challenge faced by all states in common; review the kinds of materials at risk; and alert administrators to the opportunities…
Descriptors: Archives, Federal State Relationship, Fund Raising, Legislation
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1980
Officials responsible for designing and introducing curriculum innovation in countries participating in the Asian Programme of Education Innovation for Development (APEID) met in Australia in September 1979 to exchange experiences and explore problems and issues of common interest. Conference participants, representing educational ministries or…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems, Demography, Developing Nations
Hujanen, Taisto, Ed. – 1984
The speeches and papers presented in this conference report are concerned with the information needs of migrant workers and immigrants and the current provision of this information in the press, radio, television, and educational systems of host countries. National reports on the situation of migrant workers in 14 countries are presented,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Civil Rights, Communication Problems, Foreign Countries
Bhola, H. S.; And Others – 1983
This report on the International Seminar on Campaigning for Literacy at Udaipur, India is divided into three main parts. Part 1 describes the context and background of the seminar, its specific objectives, and the organization and procedures of the seminar. Part 2 provides an overview of the seminar proceedings. The inaugural statements are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Developing Nations
Henderson, Kathryn Luther, Ed.; Henderson, William T., Ed. – 1983
Papers presented at the 1981 Allerton Park Institute include: (1) "Conservation: What We should Do Until the Conservator and the Twenty-first Century Arrive," by Robert H. Patterson; (2) "Expanding Preservation Resources: The Corps of Practitioners and the Core of Knowledge," by Pamela W. Darling; (3) "National…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Laboratories, Library Administration, Library Materials
Intergovernmental Bureau for Informatics, Rome (Italy). – 1979
This conference report presents the discussions and recommendations of the 290 participants representing 76 nations who met at the first SPIN conference to exchange experiences in strategies and policies for the dissemination of information via networks based on the linking of computers with telecommunications, and to identify ways and means of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computers, Databases, Developing Nations
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). – 1978
Appendix I presents national inventories and analyses of the problems, objectives, and instruments pertinent to the rural areas of 21 countries. Data, including land area, agricultural ratio, and report and map sources, are provided for Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Communications, Comparative Analysis, Land Use
