In the House of the Children's Book dramatic programs, periodicals, and a book club combine to encourage children's interest in literature. (PF)

Deals comprehensively with the evolution of Nigeria's bibliographical services. (Author)

Describes the activities of the Franklin book translation programs in Tehran, Iran. (PF)

Isolates four fundamental prohibitive factors with regard to bibliographic control in East Africa: (1) underdeveloped local book production industry; (2) large quantities of relevant materials scattered in overseas libraries; (3) underdeveloped library and information infrastructure with shortage of manpower and expertise; and (4) shortage of…

Compares the intellectual fecundity and publishing rates associated with various principal modern languages and the character of library systems used to bank and lend this intellectual capital. The problem, principal languages and recorded text, sources of data for bibliolinguistics, and book production by language and nation are discussed.…

Provides an account of the information and impressions of the present state of publishing, the book trade, and libraries and librarianship in Cuba gained during an official visit on behalf of the British Library Reference Division. Sources from which Cuban publications may be obtained are described. (EJS)

Probes publishing and citing patterns of Indian space scientists and engineers, highlighting productivity; sources in which published and from where cited; frequency distributions of publishing in and citing from journals and conference proceedings; frequency distribution of number of references cited and self-citations; comparison of citing and…

Discusses the main aspects of national bibliographical control in Pakistan--legal deposit, national bibliographical agency, and retrospective and current national bibliographies. Highlights include registration of publications, copyright, the National Bibliographic Unit, National Book Council of Pakistan, and Library of Congress Office. Works…

Support by the government, sources of foreign financial aid, school libraries, the development of bookselling and the publishing industry, problems with duplicate resources, and professional librarian training are discussed in relation to Nigerian library development since 1960. (MBR)

Examines the present position of libraries (academic, public, special, and school) and librarianship in Kenya, highlighting problems concerned with manpower, accommodations and equipment, books, finances, and cooperation. Proposals for action involving manpower, books, school library service, user education, standardization, and bibliographic…

Discusses current trends in scientific research and the publication of research results in Saudi Arabia. Areas discussed include fields of research; marketing of scholarly publications; publication of books, scholarly journals, conference papers, monographs, and research reports; local and foreign publishers serving researchers; leading Saudi…

Discussion of library and information services in a global context highlights an African perspective. The current state of library and information services in Africa is discussed, including the economic situation, the lack of an African publishing industry, the widening gap in technology, and computer literacy. Future possibilities are also…

This review discusses the key elements of a national infrastructure of information--government (funding, legislation, manpower planning, national information policy, development of communications systems); people (information users and professionals); professional associations or societies; publishing industry; physical information resources…