Books, dissertations, government documents, and journal articles examining education at all levels in Tanzania are listed in this bibliography, which is one in a series. Topics dealt with include educational history, educational practices, and educational policy. The collection was compiled from the catalogs and other available indexes within the…

Differences in conditions in the U.S. and one developing country, the Bahamas, suggest that evaluation of higher education programs are more welcome in the latter. U.S. evaluation programs, such as Florida's annual review of selected disciplines in its nine state institutions of higher education, are few in number and have spread only recently, in…

The development of a National Documentation Centre in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan's East Bank is described in five major sections including basic data (geographical background, historical background, population, natural resources, services, finance, research and development, and planning); the information situation (user studies, media, data…

This review surveys the literature emanating from less developed countries (LDCs) and international agencies that deals with their perception of the needs of LDCs for scientific and technical information (STI) in relation to social and economic development. It explores five major areas: (1) recognition of STI as it is expressed through…

To determine the amount and kind of news about foreign countries available to most small-to-medium-sized mass media in the United States, foreign dateline stories of the Associated Press Interbureau (IB Blend) and the United Press International state wire were content analyzed for two weeks of consecutive days and two "constructed week"…

A CONFERENCE WAS HELD TO PROVIDE 30 PARTICIPATING SCHOLARS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS IN RELATION TO EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. THE THIRD IN A SERIES OF BIENNIAL CONFERENCES, IT POOLED INTERDISCIPLINARY RESOURCES FOR REAPPRAISAL OF THE MOST RECENT FINDINGS, AND PROVIDED THE ATMOSPHERE FOR AN…

This booklet contains comments by those who have been involved in UNESCO debates on the media and on the proposed New Information Order. Specifically, it offers comments on the proposals of the MacBride commission, a group appointed by UNESCO to study the problems of international communications. Specific topics addressed in the various sections…

This report summarizes 1979 activities of the World Fertility Survey (WFS), an international population research program to assist interested countries carry out surveys of human fertility behavior. The document is organized into six major sections. Following an introduction, section two briefly describes participation of countries in Africa,…

This booklet presents an analysis of the range of options open to educational planners in designing educational programs to serve major developmental and social goals. In his discussion, the author attempts to balance the theoretical with the practical dimensions of development administration. He focuses in turn on decisions related to…

This description of the Africa Bibliographic Centre (ABC) concept--which is still in a formative stage--provides brief summaries of the 12 components of the system, including an African lending library, bibliographic publishing, a commission on information and bibliographic systems, an African microfiche publications center, African abstracting…

Brief summaries of the 30 papers presented to the UN/ICSU/COSTED International Seminar on "Technical Information Services for Developing Countries," held in March 1977 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, are provided in this overview of the session. The report concludes with four recommendations made by seminar participants:…

The validity of resource sharing activities among libraries in Tanzania is examined, and the main types of libraries in the country are summarized with emphasis on cooperation between libraries. Some areas that need cooperative activity are identified as selection, ordering, processing, storage, conservation and protection of books, interlibrary…

This description of resource sharing by the university (i.e., national), libraries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda examines such factors as finance, communication, and dependence on imported literature. In discussing the acquisition of local literature, it is established that the greatest amount of resource sharing is inter-university, while…

The Universal Serials and Book Exchange, Inc. (USBE), which serves as a centralized clearinghouse set up in 1948 by several American library and scholarly associations and the Library of Congress, receives, processes, and redistributes surplus and duplicate publications. During the first half of its operating life, USBE concentrated on the…

Perspectives that stem from the free enterprise philosophy/economy of the United States make up this paper that presents a private American citizen's view of several international communications/information issues. Topics discussed include the World Administrative Radio Conference; direct broadcast by satellite; the transfer of technology between…