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Osipova, I. P. – 1979
An objective description of the programs and outline of the problems of the Lenin State Library are presented by I.P. Osipova of the Lenin State Library of the USSR, and a comparison between that library and the Library of Congress (LC) is presented by Frank M. McGowan. The Lenin Library serves as national library of the USSR, state repository of…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries
Lundu, Maurice C. – 1981
This paper describes the situation of the information user in the developing countries of Africa; discusses the role of information resources in national development; delineates the most important functions of national libraries with respect to information dissemination and information utilization; explores the relationship between financial…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Governance, Information Dissemination
Kaungamno, E. E. – 1979
Using the UNESCO Public Library Manifesto as a basis for discussion, this paper examines the role of the public library within developing countries and reviews the major developments in public library services in Africa subsequent to the two UNESCO seminars on Public Library Development held in Nigeria in 1962. A number of key statements from the…
Descriptors: Conferences, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Roberts, Kenneth H. – 1981
Formed by a merger of two existing UNESCO programs--NATIS and UNISIST--a Division of the General Information Program (PGI) was created in 1977 to respond to problems involved in the development and promotion of scientific and technological information systems and services, as well as the development of national information infrastructures. This…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Global Approach, Information Needs, Information Services
Download full textBryson, Jo – 2000
This paper provides an overview of the forces shaping the future of the knowledge economy and society, including: the speed and type of change that is occurring; the technologies that are propelling it; the technology and information choices that competitors are making; which organizations are in the lead; who has the most to gain and to lose; the…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Global Approach
Kirpicheva, I. K. – 1979
In describing the role of Soviet libraries in the satisfaction of information needs of specialists, I.K. Kirpicheva has provided a comprehensive picture of the extensive system for the State System Scientific and Technical Information (SSSTI) in support of the accelerated development of Soviet science and technology. Information needs arising at…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, London (England). – 1992
Seven papers delivered at the 1992 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions annual meeting relating to regional activities are presented. These papers deal with library issues in Africa, Asia and Oceania, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The papers are: (1) "Designing National Information Policies in African: Process…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Documentation, Foreign Countries
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1984
Remarks by Dr. John Brademas, President of New York University, address the meeting theme--"Libraries and the Universal Availability of Information"--with special attention to research libraries and their service to scholars, the quality of public and school libraries, the plight of non-readers, the role of governments in supporting…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Information Services
Hopkins, Dianne McAfee; Zweizig, Douglas L. – 1999
The Library Power program is a school improvement initiative of the DeWitt-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund that began in 1988, designed to promote the full integration of the school library media program into the school curriculum in public elementary and junior high/middle schools. With a total investment exceeding $45 million, Library Power is the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
