The largest patent libraries annually acquire over 300,000 descriptions. The tasks and problems of patent libraries are characteristic for patent libraries in many countries. However, until recently, international cooperation mainly boiled down to mutual patent document exchanges. These libraries did not participate in various international…

An invitation to participate in this panel discussion was sent to official representatives of organizations which had an expressed interest in information networks. Since some of the represented international bodies had started preliminary planning for network communication, the discussion was centered around systems design concepts. However, as…

The Antioch Education Abroad (AEA) program extended overseas the same experimental pattern of liberal education as practiced at Antioch. This included a planned sequence of study, work, and community living, individualized program options for all qualified students, and financial planning to make a year abroad possible at no more cost to a student…

Four papers are included in this pamphlet, the proceedings of the World Assembly at Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The keynote address, "A Turning Point in History" by Jaime Benitez, President of the University of Puerto Rico, discusses the Apollo 11 moon landing as an object lesson on values with international implications for shifting…

An international inventory was made to determine the composition of television programs, particularly from the point of view of program material exported to a country outside. A survey was also made of the international networks for sales and exchanges of program material for broadcast. A report of these studies includes the scope and methods of…

The Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication (CIP) program is designed to provide professional cataloging data to publishers for printing in their books. From July 1973 to July 1974 the program has grown to include over 640 publishers. CIP is also being carried out by the National Library of Medicine and several major libraries in other…

Compiled in this document are several reports emanating from the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm, June 5-16, 1972. Included are (1) Provisional Agenda, (2) Annotations to the Provisional Agenda, (3) Provisional Rules of Procedure, (4) Draft Declaration on the Human Environment, (5) Planning and Management of Human…

In the context of the long-standing and developing demand for an international university, the Secretary-General brought the feasibility of an international university to the attention of the United Nations. The General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution inviting the Secretary-General to prepare a study. The resulting study includes: (1)…

This collection of speeches is divided into five parts. In Part I, Paul Brandewein outlines 13 basic propositions on the environment and how man has violated them, and then suggests a strategy for change. In Part II, Herminio Lugo Lugo discusses the education campaign which Puerto Rico has mounted to confront pollution; E. Wesley Menzel outlines…

The Seminars on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) which started in 1956 with the meeting of a representative group of librarians and bookmen invited by the University of Florida and the Pan American Union, "to consider the problems involved in finding, buying, and controlling library materials related to Latin…

The purpose of the survey was: (1) to evaluate existing agricultural information services and (2) to propose possible frameworks for an improved world-wide agricultural information service. The principal statistical results of the survey are summarized in the following figures which are based on data collected in nearly all instances for the year…

The Japan Documentation Center was formally established in 1970 by the East Asian Institute of Columbia University with the support of the Yoshida International Education Foundation. The Center is designed to perform a radically new and unique service in the United States: to make available in one convenient location the latest information on…

The newness of a field which librarians are trying to identify and relate to their own concerns and activities is reflected in this paper. It explains the field's research methods and gives examples, as well as discussing its identification and proposing a series of new definitions. In so doing, it is much indebted to the Bereday, Simsova, and…

Activities, programs, and recommendations emanating from the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment are reviewed in this report in light of their relationship to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Detailed accounts of the implications of the Conference for UNESCO's activities as a whole were…

This booklet gives a list of general principles and suggestions for meeting the problems arising from requests from developing countries for assistance in improving their programs of mathematics education at all levels. Topics covered are major components for collaboration; conferences, seminars, and courses; consultants and short-time visitors;…