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Oversight Hearing on the Problem of "Brittle Books" in Our Nation's Libraries. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee of Education and Labor. House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session (March 3, 1987).

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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1987

Held to solicit the opinions of experts regarding the preservation of the brittle books in the nation's libraries, this hearing was intended to determine the appropriate federal, state, and private sector roles; learn the magnitude of costs and who should bear them; and explore what procedures are necessary to insure that selection decisions are…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Books, Cooperation, Financial Support

The Restrictive Effects of Government Information Policies on Scholarship and Research. Minutes of the Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (107th, October 23-24, 1985, Washington, D.C.).

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Daval, Nicola, Ed. – 1986

Minutes from the 1985 Membership Meeting of the Association of REsearch Libraries (ARL) include the full text of three presented papers: "Changing Information Policies and Research Libraries" (John Shattuck); "Management of Government Information" (Timothy Sprehe); and "Access to Information in Canada" (Bruce Mann).…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Conferences, Federal Government

Information Technology and the Marginalisation of Regional Cultures: Rambling Thoughts from the University of Calgary Experience.

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Pannekoek, Frits – 2000

In the past decade, significant advances in information technologies in the Euro-American world have fostered the creation of information monopolies. The prices imposed by the monopolies, whose products are largely in the English language, have caused academic libraries to focus almost exclusively on international scientific and cultural materials…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Adult Education, Adult Learning