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Kartashov, N. S. – 1980
This paper reviews the promotion of literacy and the development of library services in the multinational, multilingual republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics since the October Revolution as a model for state or regionally centralized services that promote local arrangements while serving a single national purpose in multiethnic and…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Developing Nations, Library Science, Library Services
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
Kartasov, N. S. – UNESCO Journal of Information Science, Librarianship and Archives Administration, 1982
Describes the various ways in which publishers and libraries work together in the Soviet Union to ensure the Universal Availability of Publications (UAP). The general library and publishing situation in the USSR, the distribution of materials to libraries, library acquisitions, cataloging and standardization, and specialized publishing are…
Descriptors: Automation, Cataloging, Conferences, Cooperative Programs
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
Line, Maurice B.; And Others – 1981
This set of papers presented to the Collections and Services Division of the International Federation of Library Associations at its 47th annual conference (1981) includes: "Planning Interlending Systems in Developing Countries," by Maurice B. Line; "Problems of Centralisation of Inter-Library Lending in a De-Centralized Library…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Contracts, Developing Nations
