For a variety of reasons, collection care in Southeast Asia, especially in the northern regions, is fraught with many difficult challenges. Climates that are unfriendly to paper-based materials, poor economies, war, and civil unrest, are just a few of the reasons that librarians and archivists find it extremely difficult to ensure the survival of…

LIBECON2000 is a project funded by DG13 of the European Commission within the Telematics Applications Programme that will run for three years (until early 2001). The project collects and publishes library statistics of 29 European countries on its World Wide Web site, http://www.libecon2000.org. This paper gives an account of the project's…

This paper reports on the activities of the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Section on Cataloging for 2000-2001. The first part discusses the interest in cataloging and its harmonization at the international level that is shared by libraries throughout the world, including the section's work on development…

This paper addresses the plans of the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Section on Reading for keeping the literacy issue alive within IFLA and for moving ahead with specific programs and projects. The first section provides historical background on IFLA's involvement with literacy from 1989 to the present.…

This paper discusses the role of libraries in the preservation of World Wide Web publications. Topics addressed include: (1) the scope of Web preservation, including examples of projects that illustrate comprehensive and selective approaches; (2) the responsibility of Web preservation, including placing the responsibility on publishers and other…

This draft, generated by the conference, "Implications of Life-Long Education for Interdisciplinary Curriculum Oriented Toward International Education," (Federal Republic of Germany) proposes associated schools as action centers where learning and experience are tied to social reality and from which curriculum experimentation can be…

Fourteen countries report on the progress being made in schools following the Unesco guidelines in conducting international understanding programs. Along with the progress notes, the reports of innovative and effective projects, and the outlines, are suggestions from some countries enlarging on the projects and considering problems of development,…

Informs of the initiation of two projects: the supply of journals to developing countries and a summer seminar for foreign graduate students. Appeals to the physics community for suggestions, help, and new ideas. (CC)

International cooperation for scientific advancement in developing countries is recognized as possible and necessary. Areas of manpower shortage and feelings of isolation among physicists could be partially solved by modifying science education programs for foreign students in the United States. Several programs in physics departments and…

Discusses the implications of an international instrument now awaiting ratification by U.S. and other governments in the Western Hemisphere--the American Convention on Human Rights," negotiated in 1969 by 19 members of the Organization of American States. (JM)

This 16-year-old top level leader grant program offers selected mature men from 40 countries a view of professional, political and social facets of American life through unrestricted travel, seminars, interviews with leaders in government, management, education and industry and visits to private homes. (IR)

Robert Hutchins' essay deals with the discrepancy between education and what takes place in educational institutions; Jon Van Dyke writes about the authoritarianism in most public education; the function of the liberal arts is discussed by George Shuster; and, F. Champion Ward talks about the exportation of American education. (JB)

Describes operation of cooperative programs between University of Michigan and University of Baroda, India, from 1962 to 1971. (RT)