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Peer reviewedTusa, Bobs M. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1993
Examines the issue of standardization in the application of computerized automation to rare book and art collections in libraries and describes recent examples of applications in North America and in Western Europe. Topics addressed include bibliographic control, the development of national and international databases, and the use of videodisks.…
Descriptors: Art Products, Cataloging, Foreign Countries, International Programs
Peer reviewedPacey, Antony – Canadian Library Journal, 1990
Outlines the problems of the National Museums of Canada libraries that led to the decision to implement a preservation program and describes the program and its impact. Areas discussed include policy formation, disaster contingency planning, storage monitoring, collection cleaning, binding and restoration, rare book identification and…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Foreign Countries, Library Collections, Library Facilities
Download full textUrata, Takeo – 1971
The medical library needs of Indonesia were surveyed and recommendations for improving the existing situation are made based on the results of the survey. The survey indicates that: (1) the library collections are out of date and inadequate, (2) there is a need for more and better trained medical librarians and library assistants; (3) there is no…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Needs, Information Networks
Peer reviewedAgrawal, S. P. – Education for Information, 1986
Describes the activities, library holdings and services, documentation programs, current initiatives, and future programs of India's National Social Science Documentation Centre. (MBR)
Descriptors: Activities, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Turko, Karen – 1996
This document presents an overview of the Canadian national preservation program. It is divided into three sections: (1) Federal Initiatives, which explores activities at the National Library of Canada, the National Archives of Canada, the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM), and the Canadian Conservation Institute; (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Advisory Committees, Archives, Cultural Background
Schrader, Alvin M. – 1999
Canada's National Core Library Statistics Program is designed to capture several key indicators of the broad impact on Canadian society of library services provided by the public, academic, and special library sectors. These impacts can be broadly organized into cultural and economic. Current indicators of cultural impact are question answering…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Information Utilization, Library Collections
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
