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Aman, Mohammed M. – International Library Review, 1980
Two thousand participants attended the White House Conference which focused on five broad user-oriented themes structured under the umbrella theme of "Bringing Information to People"--Library and Information Services for...(1) Personal Needs, (2) Lifelong Learning, (3) Governing Society, (4) Business and the Professions, and (5)…
Descriptors: Conferences, Federal Aid, Libraries, Library Cooperation
McNamee, Gil – 1974
A workshop, Current Trends in Information Delivery, held in December 1974, was attended by 337 librarians, including Joseph Becker from the National Commission on Libraries and Information Services (NCLIS) who spoke about the national library network which NCLIS is proposing; Gerald Newton of the California State Library who spoke on library…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Computer Science, Delivery Systems, Educational Trends
Torp, K.; And Others – 1981
These seven papers delivered by representatives of library associations from Norway, Hungary, Singapore, Czechoslovakia, the United States, and Latin America describe activities, trends, and developments within local, regional, and national library associations. Included are: "Library Associations on the Move," by K. Torp; "The Role of the…
Descriptors: Activities, Foreign Countries, Librarians, Library Associations
Gregor, Dorothy, Ed. – 1984
The 29 participants in this meeting on retrospective conversion included research and public library administrators; representatives from the Library of Congress, the major bibliographic utilities, and the regional networks; librarians with experience in planning retrospective conversion projects; three authors of the "Issues in Retrospective…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Automation, Library Catalogs, Library Cooperation
Harriman, Sigrid G., Ed. – 1986
The December 1985 program session of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee (NAC) focused on determining the effectiveness of networking, identifying a common vision or goal, and developing a strategy to accomplish that goal. The program session included remarks on the role of the regional networks in national networking by Louella V.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Science, Library Automation, Library Cooperation
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1979
Contained in this collection of presentations from the third Afro-Nordic Library Conference are a foreword describing the objectives of the meeting and 14 papers: "From Oral Tradition to Literary Writing: The Awakening of National Awareness," by Heikki Kirkinen; "African Library Systems," by L. E. Samarasinghe; "Planning…
Descriptors: Children, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Folk Culture
Anderson, LeMoyne W., Ed. – 1974
Papers from an institute on the university's role in information networks are presented. Two introductory papers define networks in general and consider reasons for their existence in academic libraries. Five papers describe operational networks: Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), Stanford's BALLOTS system, the Minnesota Interlibrary Teletype…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Conference Reports, Databases
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