Discusses various ways in which objective and subjective cultural traits affect generation, presentation, transfer, and use of information in different societies. The cultural dimension of information rediscovered, generation of information as cultural phenomenon, information products as cultural products, and information needs, use, and…

This study has as its main object the formulation of an approach, as global and comprehensive as possible, to the multiple aspects of the engineer's needs for scientific and technical information. The basis of the study is an analysis of the engineer's role, its characteristics, different specialties, levels of training, and categories of…

Discusses some of the international implications resulting from the emergence of a U.S. information-based economy. (MH)

Bibliographic control of information in the social sciences is examined, and the transfer of social science information from the Western countries to the Third World is discussed. (RM)