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Serov, V. V. – 1979
Following the principle of planned development for all phases of economic and cultural institutions, library planning and the resultant library legislation in socialist countries emanates from the supreme legislative authority of the state. Historically, existing legislation derives from the date of establishment of socialist governments. Library…
Descriptors: Centralization, Communism, Community Planning, Foreign Countries
Zhidkov, Grigory – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1983
Presents overview of state of Soviet Union library service comprising 350,000 libraries, including national, governmental department, and public group (trade unions, professional associations) libraries. Training of Soviet librarians, library cooperation, national planning and funding, cultural exchange and cooperation, supporting international…
Descriptors: Building Design, Foreign Countries, Interlibrary Loans, Librarians
Howder, Murray L. – 1979
The first Soviet-American Library Seminar provided general comparisons and contrasts, similarities and dissimilarities, between Soviet and American libraries, and stressed the differences in understanding library terms, the need for long-range planning, demographic changes and their effect on library services, and library automation. An…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, International Programs, Library Administration, Library Education
Serov, V. V. – 1979
The mechanics of the Soviet library system, the availability of libraries to the citizenry, organizational components, and the development and planning principles of librarianship as they follow Leninist national policy are discussed in this paper by V.V. Serov, Head of the Main Library Directorate, USSR Ministry of Culture. A program of library…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Anderson, William; Zharkov, D. S. – 1981
The first of two papers presents suggestions on library services for the deaf by a British university lecturer, and the second provides an enumeration of Russian achievements in providing the blind with books. Based on an outline of the personal and social implications of deafness and unawareness of the deaf on the part of libraries and the…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Braille, Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments
Loveday, Anthony J.; And Others – 1981
This set of papers presented to the General Research Libraries Division, University Libraries Section, of the International Federation of Library Associations during its 47th annual conference (1981) includes: "SCONUL (Standing Conference of National and University Libraries) and British University Library Standards: Some Observations on the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Financial Support, Library Acquisition, Library Cooperation
Download full textKaratygina, T. F. – 1974
The organization and development of scientific and technical libraries in the Soviet Union are natural results of the policy of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government for the intensive economic and cultural development of the country. Soon after the establishment of Soviet power, the libraries of the Supreme Economic Council were formed.…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Centralization, Communism, Economic Development
