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Download full textPrice, Douglas – 1989
This booklet summarizes the proceedings of a forum--whose audience consisted of over 200 library and information managers, congressional staff members, and persons from the information industry and academic community--on the condition of federal information policies as they relate to the Congressional initiative. Among issues discussed are: (1)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Depository Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Federal Government
Echelman, Shirley, Ed. – 1987
This document includes five reports originally presented at two meetings of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) held respecively in 1985 and 1987. In "Public Policy on LIbraries," Hector Wynter, a member of the Jamaican Parliament, describes the role of the legislator in the development of libraries in Jamaica.…
Descriptors: Administration, Foreign Countries, Institutional Advancement, International Organizations
Molz, R. Kathleen – 1988
This essay explores the somewhat uneven course of the public library as a knowledge institution in America and its relevance during the current information age, particularly in the United States, where there is a basic connection between access to knowledge and the political system. The public library situation is considered in terms of the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Depository Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Elementary Secondary Education
