Globalization in post-secondary education curricula is the focus of this study. An unnamed post-secondary institution local to the area of Dade County, Florida, was the setting of this case study. The setting was chosen for its diversity, program curriculum, and location. In this study, I will assess the importance of and critique globalization…

The aim of this study is to identify cohesion in the research project abstracts of Thai EFL engineering undergraduate students and to determine the writing patterns of their abstracts. Thirty-nine abstracts (200-300 words in length) from the faculty of Engineering in three different disciplines of the International Program were compiled and…

Amid growing debates around international assessment tools in educational policy, few have critically examined how students themselves are cast in policy tool production processes and discourse. Drawing on Stuart Hall's concept of representation, we show how higher education (HE) "students" are constructed, fixed and normalized by the…

Empirical studies have found that participation in international service increases learners' intercultural competence, language skills, appreciation of cultural differences, and tolerance for ambiguity. While previous studies suggest that international service experience is potentially transformative in nature, the present study examined…

The International Standard Bibliographic Description for Serials--ISBD(S)--provides a format for the international communication of bibliographic information so that records may be interchanged between sources, interpreted across language barriers, and converted to machine readable form. The ISBD(S) standards are limited to the descriptive…

The Committee was established in 1967 to advise the Director-General on questions of documentation in general, and in particular on those related to subject fields of interest to UNESCO. The second session, reported here, was devoted to the examination of UNESCO's activities in documentation, libraries and archives in 1967-1968; UNESCO's program…

Describes the development and current status of a microfilming project of Australian historical records held in various repositories throughout the United Kingdom. (RAO)

The Linguistic Bibliography is a general-purpose tool which provides a comprehensive listing of references to archival documents in linguistics and related fields, with a retrospective coverage of almost thirty years. The measures of the Linguistic Bibliography Project, which were implemented during 1963-1966, are summarized with an amphasis on…

The International Standard Bibliographic Description for Monograph Publications [ISBD(M)] provides a format for the international communication on bibliographic information, so that records may be interchanged between sources, interpreted across language barriers, and converted to machine readable form. The ISBD(M) standards are limited to the…

The International Standard Bibliographic Description for Monographic Publications (ISBD(M)) is an international standard developed by the International Federation of Library Associations Working Group; it seeks to introduce uniformity in the bibliographic descriptions prepared in national cataloging agencies throughout the world for use in…

In continuation of the "Cumulated UDC Supplement - 1964" published by the International Federation for Documentation, this document provides a cumulative supplement to the Universal Decimal Classification for 1965-1975. The second of a five volume series lists new classification subdivisions added to the system in the areas of mathematics and…

The purpose of the survey was: (1) to evaluate existing agricultural information services and (2) to propose possible frameworks for an improved world-wide agricultural information service. The principal statistical results of the survey are summarized in the following figures which are based on data collected in nearly all instances for the year…

The main information, research, and documentation activities which Unesco proposes to carry out in 1973-74 are briefly discussed. (SJ)

The report of a symposium held May 16-18, 1972 is summarized under the following headings: Content of journals, standardization, abstracting and indexing services, international co-operation, and the recommendations made. (SJ)