Includes Polish national institutions, organizations, services, technical equipment, users, international cooperation, further development of cooperation, automated retrieval systems, and future European links. (VT)

Describes Romania's institutions, the activity carried on by the units of information and documentation in the field of social and political sciences, and international cooperation. (VT)

Includes activities in Spain, a description of the main institutions, services, technical tools, users, existing international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, feasibility of mutually linked automated information systems, needs and preconditions for European cooperation, and areas for European cooperation. (VT)

Surveys documentation and information activities in the sphere of political and social sciences in Sweden, including the historical background, present status and activities, services and users, and international cooperation. (VT)

Outlines the UK pattern of information and documentation in the social sciences, including the background, an outline, services for SSID, technical tools, users, international cooperation planned participation in international cooperation, feasibility of linked automated systems, and needs and preconditions for European cooperation. (VT)

Discusses organization in the USSR; the system of information publications; the holdings of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION), together with their acquisition and use; technical processes employed by INION and the integral automated information system; international relations; and conclusions and proposals. (VT)

A critical analysis is made of selected portions of an ALA committee document on national information policy. The authors state that the "...document does not provide a conceptual foundation for anything. It is arrant nonsense and deserves to be repudiated as quickly and emphatically as possible." (JPF)

Argues that the separation of children's services into care versus education is harmful because it impedes efforts of a national children's policy. (SB)

Contends that the National Endowment for the Humanities is biased against scholarship by young persons on experimental literature. (DD)

Plans for the implementation of a national energy policy are outlined. Proposed measures in the following areas are discussed: energy conservation; energy systems and rates; energy pricing and equity; coal, oil and gas production; nuclear and solar power; and industry structure and competition. Concerns of environmentalists are expressed. (AJ)

Some considerations for national library and information service network development. (KP)

Summarizes the recommendations of the Computer Network Study Planning Group formed by the Office of Science and Technology Policy under the provisions of PL99-383 to study the networking needs of the nation's academic and federal research computer programs. The benefits and importance of the recommended National Research Network are discussed.…

Examines the dispute concerning ideas related to a national scope and sequence for the social studies curriculum. Urges social studies teachers and other interested parties to review all proposals for a national scope and sequence so that they can participate in developing an improved plan or recognize that defining a scope and sequence is…

Discusses formation of the National Council for Marketing Education and how its Marketing Strategy Committee developed a plan to tackle the image problem. The committee chose five target audiences and developed a strategy to reach each target. The plan was introduced in October 1987 through a national videoconference. (CH)

Identifies basic elements that must be in place to establish a national preservation microfilming program: accessible technology; commitment from librarians, archivists, administrators; adequate funding; accepted standards and procedures; access to bibliographic data on what has been filmed; cooperative structures to organize work; trained…