Two hundred eighty-three sources are included in this bibliography dealing with libraries, archives, and librarianship in the islands of the South and Central Pacific. Twenty-six island nations are covered, with brief narrative summaries of the library situation given in some cases: (1) American Samoa, (2) Belau, (3) Cook Islands, (4) Easter…

New Caledonia, a French territory (population 153,500) is the only Pacific island with a plurality European population (60,000), mostly French. There are also 17,300 Polynesian migrants and some Vietnamese, Chinese, and Indonesians living there. The South Pacific Commission Library holds 60,000 volumes and provides library services to the…

This collection of 10 bibliographies covers islands located in the west and southwest region of the Pacific Ocean. The islands include American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Pohnpei, Tonga, Truk, Nauru and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). All the bibliographies focus on education, and all except two (American Samoa and Fiji)…

The Cook Islands are located in the south Pacific and had a population of 17,754 in 1981. The literacy rate was 75 percent in 1980. Free secular education is compulsory for all children between the ages of 6 and 15. There are two libraries on the islands. As of 1987, the coral island of Niue had a population of 2,422. Education is free and…

Pohnpei (Ponape) is one of the four Federated States of Micronesia. It consists of one high, volcanic island called Pohnpei Island, eight atolls, and Minto Reef. The main island is the second largest of the Caroline Islands. Kolonia, the capital, now has a population of 6,300; 20,000 Pohnpeians, many from the Atolls, live elsehwhere on the main…

The Solomon Islands are a scattered Melanesian archipelago in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. There are 21 large islands and numerous smaller ones with a total population of 285,766 in 1986. About two-thirds of school-age children attend organized schools. The literacy rate of the islands was reported at 17 percent in 1980. Approximately 30…

This bibliography of English-language materials on education in Papua New Guinea is divided into two sections. The first section consists of books, reports, and documents and contains 1252 items. There are 343 items in the second section made up of journal articles and chapters of books. The materials cover all aspects and levels of education. (JB)

The Northern Marianas are a chain of 14 islands in the western Pacific, north of Guam, which together constitute the self-governing Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas. The population of the islands in 1987 was approximately 36,000 with most of the inhabitants living on Saipan, the largest island. Sixteen thousand of these people were aliens,…

Organized alphabetically by author, the 140 items in this bibliography deal with all aspects of Samoan education, including: teacher training, bilingualism, women's education, the role of the library, health education, biculturalism, writing instruction, higher education, science education, agricultural education, educational opportunities, and…