In the People's Republic of China, science and technology policy is directed by the state and is an all encompassing managerial system through which courses of action are determined. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (Academia Sinica), a national comprehensive research center was established in 1949 to train qualified scientists and technicians. The…

An information society is one in which the expression "to earn one's daily bread by the sweat of one's brow" appears decidedly anachronistic. People have been seduced by the rhetoric of novelty and confused by the surface significance of terms which have become accepted parts of everyday speech. What do rubrics such as information society,…

More than 60 papers in this conference proceedings address telecommunications issues in the Pacific region, specifically focusing on the development, use, implementation, and management of new digital communications channels. Following a keynote address on the political and economic realities in the Pacific, entitled "Progress Report on the…

Twenty senior educators and nationals from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, and Europe, met to discuss new directions in education for development. The agenda was bound by three broad themes: new directions and concepts in education to meet development needs; appropriate high technology; and new collaboration between donor and…

Discusses projects by Unesco's Division of Social Science Methods and Analysis that study indicators, and lists 35 published reports from individual studies in that framework. (ND)

Data related to the 1982 budget for federal research and development funding are highlighted in this brief publication. Although budget authority for the total federal research and development programs in 1982 represents a seven percent increase, this figure also represents a constant-dollar decrease of almost two percent. The 1982 budget…

This paper reprints the Australian report to UNISIST, the World Science Information System, whose objective is the development of national, regional, and international scientific, technological, industrial, and agricultural information policies, infrastructures, and services. It represents a full statement of the National Library's services and…

The computer design of the system serving the 53 library systems of the Washington Library Network provides nine online files through its integrated bibliographic and acquisitions subsystems. The bibliographic subsystem provides an authority file of author, title, series, and subject headings; a bibliographic file of MARC records on books, films,…

Undertaken as a preliminary to a wider examination of future library development in Great Britain, this study of the organizational and policy framework within which libraries of all kinds will be able to cooperate efficiently in a coordinated library service gives particular attention to the roles of central government institutions and the…

FOUR MAJOR TOPICS PROVIDED THE EMPHASIS OF THIS CONFERENCE FOR REPRESENTATIVES OF MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGES--(1) DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION FROM ITS SOURCES TO THOSE WHO MAKE MAXIMUM USE OR ADAPTATION OF ITS POSSIBILITIES, (2) CENTRALIZED LIBRARY SERVICES IN MULTICAMPUS DISTRICTS, (3) AVAILABILITY AND USE OF LEARNING RESOURCES IN THE DISCIPLINES…

This report contains a consultant's observations on the state of documentation centers and academic libraries in Iraq at the time of his visit in late 1976, as well as his recommendations for their development. Discussions of the libraries under the jurisdictions of the universities of Mosul and Baghdad include their backgrounds, organizational…

This report (1) reviews the concept, development, and effectiveness of the Regional Library Resource Centers (RRC's) of Pennsylvania as a part of the state's organization for public library services; (2) recommends possible desirable changes in their number, scope of services, interlibrary relationships, and funding; and (3) drafts regulations for…

This handbook, developed for use by the Soil Conservation Service and property owners, land developers, local government agencies, and consulting firms, is designed to provide information on water management and minimizing erosion on land undergoing development in urban areas. The standards and specifications listed in this handbook are to provide…

In reference to the American Indian's problem of maintaining his values while trying to participate in the economy of the larger society, the role of the change agent was explored via review of some 15 development models derived from the economic, political, sociological, and applied sciences. Included in the review were models which approached…