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Verrier, June R. – 2000
This paper provides guidelines for establishing a parliamentary research service. The following steps are described: (1) establish a robust democracy as the context for the parliamentary research service; (2) counter alternatives to a parliamentary research service, e.g., personal staff, party-based research, university contacts, interest groups,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Government Libraries, Information Services, Library Cooperation
1970
The Conference was held because of a recognition by the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) Task Group on Library Programs and the Federal Library Committee of a fundamental responsibility to interact in a meaningful way with the non-Federal sector--the state, local and private users of Federal information resources. This…
Descriptors: Conferences, Federal Programs, Feedback, Government Libraries
Durkin, Robert E., Ed. – 1971
The second conference on Federal Information Resources continued the discussion, begun in 1970, between the Federal library and information community and the research library community. Although each had its particular mission and problems, there is agreement that some problems are common to the two groups and that, in at least some instances, the…
Descriptors: Black Community, Conferences, Federal Programs, Feedback
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1983
Papers on scientific/technical information and libraries, which were presented at the 1983 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, include: (1) "Patents as Information--An Unused Resource" by Richard D. Walker (United States); (2) "Survey of the Information Services of the Library of the German Patent…
Descriptors: Arabic, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries
Christiansen, Dorothy; Stairs, Susan – 1972
The information mechanisms required by the National Institute of Education (NIE) are discussed. The first section of the paper treats these mechanisms in general terms, and deals with the three kinds of information considered essential to NIE's research library. The third portion of the proposal considers three alternatives available to NIE--a…
Descriptors: Archives, Educational Research, Government Libraries, Information Dissemination
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1986
Papers on parliamentary libraries presented at the 1986 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference include: (1) "Library Support for Parliamentary Committees" (Peter Dawe, Switzerland), which considers the needs of parliamentary committees in terms of library materials and services; (2) "The National Assembly…
Descriptors: Committees, Depository Libraries, Developed Nations, Developing Nations