Outlines the conference proceedings assessing the problems in preserving information, books and materials. Possible solutions are suggested. (KP)

Highlights of speeches presented at the 30th ASTD National Conference in San Francisco are given: S.I. Hayakawa outlined developments in higher education during the 1970's; Joe Batten called for life enrichment, not just job enrichment; and Dorothy Jongeward discussed transactional analysis as a tool for more effective interpersonal relationships.…

The objectives of this conference included (1) bringing conferees in contact with leaders of recent national dissemination endeavors, (2) allowing them to interact in voicing dissemination problems and posing possible solutions, and (3) eliciting concerns related to dissemination/diffusion efforts. The proceedings include lists of the…

Reports on a conference held in Paris, September 23-27, 1974. (PF)

Discusses documentation and information in the social sciences in Austria, including the demand for information, information systems and information services, social research and main institutions of documentation and information, and a survey of institutions/organizations. (VT)

Assesses the present situation of information and documentation services in the social sciences in Belgium, including information and documentation on social science literature, research, and science data; services and technical tools used; existing international cooperation; and possibilities and areas of European collaboration. (VT)

Describes information and documentation in the social sciences (SSID) in Canada, and outlines SSID activities in literature, research, and data. SSID is characterized as highly dispersed, and underdeveloped, having few national foci, and no clear national center. (VT)

Briefly surveys social science documentation in Switzerland. (VT)

This brief description of the system of social science information in Yugoslavia includes size, scope, and publications. (VT)

A member of the British delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Planning of National Documentation, Library and Archives Infrastructures (Paris, September 1974) gives his views on the results of the conference and its implications for the future development of national information systems. (Author/PF)

Relates the setting-up of the International Social Sciences Information System (MISON), which reflects common social development and ideological processes characteristic of the socialist countries and the growing cooperation between them; and discusses some of its proposed goals and activities. (VT)

Describes documents that gave shape to the scientific information policy of Bulgaria, determined its goal, and indicated the fundamental principles of its strategy and tactics. The National System of Scientific and Technical Information (NSSTI) has established links with other European centers of scientific information. (VT)

Includes national documentation and information activities in Czechoslovakia, structure and aims of national centers, information services, technical means, information users, international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, possibility of mutual interconnection of automated information systems, and preconditions and…

Includes Danish organizational structure, main institutions, services, technical tools, users, existing international cooperation, and planned participation in international systems. (VT)