This brief review of the documentation activities of the United Nations Library at Geneva includes a general description, documentation activities (current bibliographic publications, specialized bibliographies and reference lists), catalog card service, major documents, indexing of official documents originating in the UN, technical tools used,…

Investigates the relationship between information science and the social sciences through a co-citation cluster analysis of a three-year cumulation of the Social Sciences Citation Index. The internal structure of information science clusters is discussed, as well as external linkages to fields of social science. Thirteen references are listed. (BK)

Discusses documentation and information in the social sciences in Austria, including the demand for information, information systems and information services, social research and main institutions of documentation and information, and a survey of institutions/organizations. (VT)

Assesses the present situation of information and documentation services in the social sciences in Belgium, including information and documentation on social science literature, research, and science data; services and technical tools used; existing international cooperation; and possibilities and areas of European collaboration. (VT)

Describes information and documentation in the social sciences (SSID) in Canada, and outlines SSID activities in literature, research, and data. SSID is characterized as highly dispersed, and underdeveloped, having few national foci, and no clear national center. (VT)

Briefly surveys social science documentation in Switzerland. (VT)

This brief description of the system of social science information in Yugoslavia includes size, scope, and publications. (VT)

Reviews the sense-making theory of Brenda Dervin, which is based on constructivist theories of information seeking and information use. Topics discussed include epistemic interests of the theory; sense-making theory in the social science context; and practical interests of the theory, including interviewing techniques used in the…

Comments on certain sections of the report from the International Conference Information and Documentation in Social Sciences (Moscow, June 1977). Some proposals are made concerning the needs for and obstacles to European cooperation, and privileged areas for European cooperation. (VT)

Relates the setting-up of the International Social Sciences Information System (MISON), which reflects common social development and ideological processes characteristic of the socialist countries and the growing cooperation between them; and discusses some of its proposed goals and activities. (VT)

Describes documents that gave shape to the scientific information policy of Bulgaria, determined its goal, and indicated the fundamental principles of its strategy and tactics. The National System of Scientific and Technical Information (NSSTI) has established links with other European centers of scientific information. (VT)

Includes national documentation and information activities in Czechoslovakia, structure and aims of national centers, information services, technical means, information users, international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, possibility of mutual interconnection of automated information systems, and preconditions and…

Includes Danish organizational structure, main institutions, services, technical tools, users, existing international cooperation, and planned participation in international systems. (VT)

Covers German literature, research, and data on activities, institutions, services, technical tools, users, existing international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, feasibility of automated information systems, and Euorpean cooperation. (VT)

Includes national centers and main institutions of Finland, services provided and national cooperation, users, existing international cooperations, planned participation in international systems, and feasibility of mutually linked automated information systems. (VT)