Neither of the "Three Industry" Theory nor the "General Agreement of Trading Service" (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) can be the essential criteria to analyze the property of education. The property of education can be defined from consumers' perspective. The direct consumers of education are students; but the…

In July 2004 the 36th International Chemistry Olympiad was held in Kiel, Germany. Competition for medals included 236 students from 61 countries, accompanied by about 150 teachers and other mentors. During this Olympiad the students performed qualitative and quantitative analyses of a superconductor, based on lanthanum barium cuprate. In the…

This report explores the role of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) in South African anti-apartheid initiatives. The document identifies those IGOs that are involved or plan to become involved in financial and/or technical assistance to programs related to post-apartheid South Africa. Following an introduction, the report identifies and…

The British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Yorkshire, operates an overseas photocopy service based on its comprehensive collection of native publications. (Author/PF)

A detailed discussion of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a new agency within the United Nations which was created for the protection of industrial property and the protection of literary and artistic works. (HB)

Discusses the important international implications of the choice of entry issue and expands the discussion to the broader area of international cooperation in serials. (Author)

Describes the work in progress toward an international machine-readable cataloging system and discusses the problems remaining. (Author)

A discussion of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules includes history, revisions, recent changes, decision-makers and disagreements, and the question of how standardization and the needs of automation will affect the usefulness of the catalog for the library's users. (LS)

A special issue with extensive coverage of The Television News Exchange. Contributing authors from all over the world give their perspectives on the current status and future prospects of The Television News Exchange. (HB)

A look at the current status of copyright laws for news stories in Great Britain. (HB)

Documents in non-Roman scripts now constitute a sizeable part of world production, and their bibliographic control through Romanization is beset by many problems. Among these are the impossibility to simultaneously satisfy certain functional requirements, the multiplicity of schemes and their inconsistent use, and the susceptibility of the method…

The International Standard Bibliographic Description for Serials--ISBD(S)--provides a format for the international communication of bibliographic information so that records may be interchanged between sources, interpreted across language barriers, and converted to machine readable form. The ISBD(S) standards are limited to the descriptive…

The Committee was established in 1967 to advise the Director-General on questions of documentation in general, and in particular on those related to subject fields of interest to UNESCO. The second session, reported here, was devoted to the examination of UNESCO's activities in documentation, libraries and archives in 1967-1968; UNESCO's program…

The General Conference, at its fifteenth session, deemed it desirable that an international instrument be drawn up for the standardization of statistics relating to libraries in the form of a recommendation to Member States. In accordance with the "Rules of Procedure concerning Recommendations to Member States and International…

At its fifteenth session, the General Conference deemed it desirable that an international instrument be drawn up for the international standardization of statistics relating to libraries, in the form of a recommendation to Member States. Thus, the Director-General drew up a preliminary report together with a preliminary draft recommendation (See…