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Osipova, I. P. – 1979
An objective description of the programs and outline of the problems of the Lenin State Library are presented by I.P. Osipova of the Lenin State Library of the USSR, and a comparison between that library and the Library of Congress (LC) is presented by Frank M. McGowan. The Lenin Library serves as national library of the USSR, state repository of…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries
Ryan, Frederick – Library Journal, 1981
Despite obvious and fundamental differences, contemporary library issues strikingly familiar to those of the west also beset the Soviet library world--issues that so far have been bridged in only technical apolitical areas. Governmental insistence on the centrality of ideology to library service remains an international stumbling block.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, International Relations, Library Education
Kirpicheva, I. K. – 1979
In describing the role of Soviet libraries in the satisfaction of information needs of specialists, I.K. Kirpicheva has provided a comprehensive picture of the extensive system for the State System Scientific and Technical Information (SSSTI) in support of the accelerated development of Soviet science and technology. Information needs arising at…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1984
Remarks by Dr. John Brademas, President of New York University, address the meeting theme--"Libraries and the Universal Availability of Information"--with special attention to research libraries and their service to scholars, the quality of public and school libraries, the plight of non-readers, the role of governments in supporting…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Information Services
