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Local Creation/Global Use: Bibliographic Data in the International Arena.
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Patton, Glenn – Library Resources & Technical Services, 2000
Discusses the growth of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) into a worldwide bibliographic utility. Topics include cataloging standards; subject access in languages appropriate to the users; local needs versus global usefulness; character sets; international name authority file; ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description) principles;…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Global Approach
Globalisations, Social Movement Unionism and New Internationalisms: The Role of Strategic Learning in the Transformation of the Municipal Workers Union of EMCALI
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Novelli, Mario – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2004
The paper explores processes of social movement learning within SINTRAEMCALI, a public service trade union in the South West of Colombia, which has successfully prevented a series of attempts by the national government to privatise public utilities. The paper develops the concept of "strategic learning" and applies it to an exploration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Influences, Activism, Social Change
Project "Russian OCLC": Global Information Infrastructure.
Shraiberg, Yakov L. – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1995
Outlines reasons for ineffective information exchange between Russia and Western countries and how these barriers have been gradually removed since 1990. Examines steps Russia has taken towards becoming involved in a global information infrastructure. Describes "Russia OCLC," an online computer library center project that supports the…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Global Approach, Information Management, Information Networks