Describes the aims, historical background, and present operations of the United Nations depository library system. Included are criteria for designation and distribution of libraries by region and type and a list of member countries without such service. (RAA)

Describes UNISIST efforts to design a single flexible format for the international exchange of bibliographic information in machine-readable form. Such a format would handle records of varying completeness for either direct use or transfer between established international communication formats. There are ten references. (Author/RAA)

Presents an overview of Unesco's documentation network with particular emphasis on the development, operation, and future plans of the CDS/ISIS system. (RAA)

Investigates the current status of and obstacles to effective documentation in the social sciences, stressing the need for international and regional cooperative solutions. (RAA)

Outlines the Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) program and the place therein of the UAP Congress. Presents the observations made by the Preparatory Committee for the congress on the UAP programme and on a number of problems concerning the disparities between developed and undeveloped countries in publication availability. (Author/JL)

Describes the activities of Unesco's General Information Programme in the promotion, creation, promulgation, and updating of standards for information work throughout the international community, and introduces five articles dealing with various aspects of this program. (RAA)

Discusses the definitions, resources, library education, research methods, and the role of international agencies in the development of comparative and international librarianship. (Author/RAA)

Identifies the role and mechanism of information transfer in the social sciences, and surveys selected, significant institutions and organizations (mostly international), which promote such transfer. (RAA)

Reports the activities of IFLA's Round Table of Libraries for the Blind to develop library services, including the production of audiomaterials in standardized formats to facilitate copying for exchange or borrowing. Current projects are concerned with copyright, formats, postal regulation and custom law, international relations, bibliographic…

Describes the rationale and procedures for the implementation of the mandatory printing of ISSN on serials mailed at special rates through the United States mail. The article cites bibliographical, commercial, and managerial benefits for the information community. (Author/RAA)

To provide an understanding of the General Information Programme in promoting and assisting the development of information systems and services at national, regional, and international levels, this article briefly describes the organization and characteristics of PGI's work programs, as well as specific applications in Latin America and the…

Five articles describe state of development of international network on educational information, promoted by International Bureau of Education to provide better information services to member states through decentralized approach. Latin American and Caribbean participation and impact of Recommendation 71 evolving from International Conference on…

Deals with conceptualization of problems of information, the empirical results obtained in the program of action launched by the Centro Latinoamericano de Documentacion Economica y Social (CLADES), and the proposal to establish interorganizational cooperation and coordination to draw up a regional plan for information development. A 17-item…

Describes the computer-based online system, UNBIS, developed for expanded reference and information services and to provide bibliographic control of United Nations document holdings. The report includes descriptions of current and future UNBIS information products. (RAA)

Describes a project to provide developing countries with access to scientific and technological information produced in connection with French bilateral development cooperation programs. Making an inventory of the available material, the users of the information, processing the information, and the development of a documentation policy are…