PTRLIOG?fLPHICLL NEWLETTER

of : -&e. .' liibxcieii:. . Division of Unesco c. c: to members and observers of .; CC'

.;- 4 Ctt 4'

the International Advisory Camnittee on Bibliogmphy and to the national bibliographic21 groups

0:

2 Vol. 11, No. 4 '<

I - Meetings at "ienna The 18th session of thoCouncil of IFLA 2nd thc 21st session of the Council of FID

I1 - Execution of the contracts of the Intemational Advi- sor- Cmittee on Bibliography

1. Standardization of bibliographical techniques. 2. Directory of thz periodicals of international non-govormental orgmimtions. 3. Report on the most important lacunae in international special bibli ogr.phy.

111 - National bibliographiczl groups The German Mational Bibliographical Comission

IV - Unesco's activities 1. Brazilian Centre of Bibliography and %cumenta-

tion, 2. National Borinnittees f 3r Science. Ab- stracting of the Advisory Comittee for Docu- mentation in the Naturd Sciences

2

-. The 18th session of the Council of the InterzrmJAonal Fedelationf Library Associations -and the 21s t se ss ion of- _>~e-he~gu-nc>~-~o~ International Fcdera tion f'o-rz-E%e nta tion.

This year, for the first time, the annual meetings of the IEZA and FID Councils were held concurrently. IFLA meeting from the loth to the 13th June and FID fran the loth to the 17th. The host of the IFZA meeting was the Vereiniwng Oesterroichisoher 'Bibliothekare and of PI3 the Osterreichische Gesellschaft f b Dohentation und Bibliographie.

The IFLA meeting, under the presidency of' Dr. Pierre Bourgeois, in- cluded sessions of a number of special Sections and Camittees inclu- ding the c d t t e e s for Public Libmries, International loan, Hospital libraries, Exchange of publications , Periodials and Serial publications , Parliamentary libraries, Statistics of libraries and national book pro- duction and the Section for National and University Libraries. hie+ tings were also held of the joint IE'LA-FID Committee on professional education and of delegates of both Councils to discuss arrangements for the 1955 Conference of Librarianship and Documentation. The FID meetings under the presidency of Mr. Arne M,dller, included scssions of the spe- cial working groups on sections of the Universal Decimal Classification.

The decisions reached included tho following :

The 1954 meetings

It was decided 'to accept invitations frm Yougoslavia for the Coun- cil meetings of both bodies to be held in Yougoslavia in 1954. IFLA Council agreed that the principd theme of the Section for National and University Libraries should be "Union Cataloguesn+ Tnis discussion would largely bo based on the report which Dr. Brummel is currently pre- paring International Advisory Cumittee on Bibliography.

in contmct with Unesco and on the recamnendation of the Unesco

1955 Conference

At joint meetings of the IFLA and FID Councils an outline dnft programme was agreed for the large international. Congress which it is proposed to hold in 1955. The theme of the Cohference is to be "The tasks and responsibilities of libraries and documentation centres, in the intel.lcctue1, economic and s o c i a m o f ' the nodern world. It will 'broadly be divided into tl&&r-he first foF discussion of the general theme and the others for business directly relatod to librarian- ship and to documentation. These special parts of the Conference would in effect be the Third International Congress of Libraries and the 22nd Documentation Conference. It wzis agreed provisionally to set up a Con- ference Bureau representative of IFLA and FII) with representatives of the International Association of Music Libraries.

--- -

- 3 - The Liaison Cmmitte of International Organizstions for Librzrian-

I

ship. documentation and archives.

This Camittee had been provisonnllg agreed zt meeting held at Unesco House in Ayril 1953 and was discussea by both IFLA-and FID Councils. It ;vas agreed, wiih the support of the TSnesco representatives, to c'iefer decisions with reference to the ratification of the d n f t constitution of the Liaison Committee, xhich had been agreed by the Cmittee in April, until the membership of IEW and FID had had more tims to study the pro- posal. None the less it was ?greed that until ratification tho Lizison Committee continue to exist in a provisional form and that %he-Eureau should meet later this year,

In de x Bib li ogra phi cus

FID discussed arrangements for the preparation of a new edition of the Index. It was agreed th?+t the active coopemtion of intemrLtiond bodies in the vsrious specialized subject fields c,€ %he 'Index .khoad-lbc invited,

-- -.a --

The exchanne Of nublications

The arrangements made by Unesco, on the recommend-tion of the In- ternational Advisory Committee on Bibliography, for the preparation of the second edition of the Unesco Hadbook on the International Exchange of -2ublications mere reported to the meetings and the cooperation of' the IFLA Committee on the exchange of university and scientific publications assured.

Professional education

The joint IFLA-FID Coinnittee on professional education agreed that a seminar or conference of teachers of documentation should be held in Zurich in 1954, organized by the Ewiss Association for Documentation.

1. - Standardization of bibliogmphic?d techniques -- ( Contract with ISO/TC/46) In accordance with the contract, a meeting of experts was held

in The Hague in August 1952 when nsw dmft proposals for bibliographical citations and references were agreed. These, as well as a11 other cpea'cions relating to the contract (abbreviations of titles of priodicals , lay- ouh of periodicals), were next discussed at ths 4.th plenary meeting of the IS0 Technical Committee 4-6 in Copenhagen in the autumn 1952. (1)

-_IC --- (1) See : Biblisgraphical Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 2,~33%&9& 1952,

p* 7-8. XS;./073.39

Present state of the work

The draft proposals for bibliographical citations and references have been accepted as first drzft recamendations and are now to be presented to 311 IS8 Members.

The "International Code for the Abbreviation of Titles of Periodicals" has been accepted by Technical Camittee 46 and is to be submitted to the IS0 Council at its meeting in July of this year.

The second draft recamendation for the layout of periodicals had to be modified to accord with an American proposal ; this nocessitzted pre- sentation of a third dmft recanmendation which was sent to all IS0 Members during the first part of 1953.

A new contract is to bc signed with Technical Camittee 46 for publi- cztion of a painphlet containg the text of' 5J.1 the draft reccanmendations, This pamphlet is to be widely circulated among librarians and documenta- lists, with the help of the Internstional Federation of' Library Associa- tions, the International Federation for Documentation and Unesco. (2)

2.- Directory of the periodicds of internntiona non-governmental organiza- - tions.(Contract with the Union of International Associations)

In Febzuary this year the Secretariat of the Union drafted the text of the antries to be contained in the Directory taking into consideration the cmnents of the organizations to which the entries had been submitted.

Each entry gives : The organization's name, title of the publication, date of the first issue, language, place of publication and publisher(s

of the place where the N.G.O. is established if it acts as publisher, perio- dicity, fonnst and a short analysis of the usuzl contents.

name if the periodical is not published by the N.G.O. itself or the name

Thanks to the help gran Ur~ibq~hbre each entry will be accanpanied by the corresponding Universal Decimal Classification number.

Early in March, U.I.A. submitted the mcnuscript to the Libraries Division of Unesco for approval. Suggestions have been made concerning the final drafting of the entries and decisions h a w been taken on the classification to adopt and on the indexes.

3.- Report on the most important lacunae in international special Siblio- graphy. (Contract with Miss Salvan)

Scope of the enquiry :

The report will comprise two parts :

a) The first part will bo a list of 6he :dilc5plines for which bibliographies, retrospective or current, plain or annotated, campiled

--- ---.-=- (2) See : Bibliogmphical Newsletter, vol. 11, no. 3, l i q 1953, P. 8-

%5/073 39

- 5 -

according to scientific sethods, giving a docmentation judiciously se- lected handy to utilize, are still lacking,

In compiling this list, Miss Salvan propoees to usi as a basis tho data furnished by tho enquiry conducted jointly by the "Caniiission na- tionale franpaise de bibliographic" and the "C8::nh-e rrational da La recherch scientif ique" into current international biblicgra~hics to which France contributes in the fields of humanistic sttCiic.s and natural, sciencos. She has maintaned contact with qualified associations and groups, such as the International Ccmmittee for Social Sciences Docmientation.

b) In the second part, Miss Salvan wtld report the findings of the pilot enquiry conducted anong usem of bibliograiphias on astro- n m y and tom-planning and which should enable the theoretical data emerginghm a study of existing bibliogmphic-s to be measured against the actual situation.

II_ - .-*-

Miss Salvan gives the following justification of her choice of thc two discLplines : As far as astronmy is concc-med. t b choice might seem contestable, Secause astronmy is a sciencs of cmparativelg small scopo and for which scientists hsve at their disposal bibliogra$iical tools xhich bibliographers seem to cansfdcr adcquztc. But for this rcason, the judgemen$ passed on theso vorking tools by thcir uscrs misht suggest improvements as far as partial lacunae a m concernad : selection too rigorously carriad out as reg:+~rds language and ge ogra:$iical ais tribu- tion, possible inadcquacy of abstracts insufficient circulation.

--- Town-planning, on ths othcr hand, has been chosen, because it is

a subject of great complexity. Traditionallg part of the huianistiz studies it R ~ V extends far into the social ana natural sciences and raises probleLm in thc fields of arts, history, geography , dGmogra- phy, techr,ology 2nd psychology. Moreover the apprcnt lack of d e - quate bibliographicel ssrvices is particularly serious insofar as re- construction FrObl@nS are at presont of utmost interest and thc solu- tions adopted (which vary from country to country) have to be madi available to the specialists who need to be acquainted with the nork carried out not only at homo but also abroad.

Frescnt state o? ~ o r k

Tvm sets of questionnaires were drawn up in Dccembcr 1952.

a) A s t r r n z : On the advice of Xr. Sonald Frascr, International Council of Scientif i Unions reprcscntative with Unesco, Eiiiss Salvan is in contact. with the International Astronamical Union. F'urthorinore , Kr- Bourgeois ,Director of the Ucclo Ob8~?2vato~ (Bc1gi.m) is to send her a list of international specialists. Vhile. waiting for this inf omation to arrive Xiss Salvan has beon scrutinizing dLfferent yoarbooks. Thus she Bas able to collect the names of 72 astroncmars aud directors of la- boratories to whom questionnaires have bedn distributed.

b) I__.- Tovm-plannin& : By the beginning of February, 26 international and national organizations have besn rcqmsted to supply lists of specla-

x3/073 39

- 6 -

lists. The A"5can Institute of Planners (Cambridge, Mass.) has replied as well as the International Union of Local Authorities (The Hague) which offered to circulate the questionnaire in the Rethsrlands. So far 68 tm-planners received the questionnaire.

Work renort 1952

The Canmission was founded in 1951. It is working in cooperation with the German Commission for Unesco and the Association of German LibrarLans (Verein deutschor Bibliothekare). Its members are : Verein dcutscher Biblio- thckam ; Deutsche Gosellschaft f'Ur Dokumentation ; BBrsemerein der Deutschen BucWndler ; Dcutscher Verlegerverband ; Notgemcinschaft der Deutschen Wisscnschaf t ; Max-Planck Gesellschaf t ; Varband Deutscher A b - demien ; Deutscher Hochschulverban~~

Chairman : Prof'. Dr. H.W. Eppclsheimcr, Director, 2eutsche Biblio- thek, Frankfurt-amadain ; Secretary : Prof. Dr. E. Tiemann, Director, S taa ts-una Universi t&t sbibli othek , Hambua.

During 1952, the Canmission was not able to aarry out the whole programme of its activities, because the negocistions engaged with the "Bundesinnet-ministerimff concerning a subvantion which the Federal German Government is to grant to the Cmission for the execution or" its current work did nu$ yield concrete results in good time. Thus thc annual meeting has has Rot been convened, such a meeting being considered of' no use as long as the future of the Conrmission was not snrrantad by a solid financial basis. Recently a subvention of JX 2.000 has been g-ranted. The Chairman, the Secretary and the Bureau by thcms31ves dealt mith the c u m n t work

whtch did not require tha collaboration of' all the members.

1.- Work carried out on %he international level :

a) Index Bibliographicus, vol. I1 : The Bureau revised and carrple- ted the G e m a n part' of the publication.

b) Guide to National Bibliographical Infomation Centres : The preliminary version has been examined and modifications concerning the G e m a n Centres passed on to Unesco. More questionnaires have been for- warded to other centres, sane of them situated in East Gennany.

c) Biblio ra hT of Handbooks on Scientific Authorship and Publi- cations : Th-qartment of Natural Sciences of' Unesco) has been supplied with titles of Gomm publications to be included in the Biblio- g=whY.

trsS/073.39

- 7 - d) Annual Report on the Devclopmont of ,Bibliographical Services, -- - September 1 9 5 m g u s t 1952 : All iiliportant publications, as well as

new and partfculazy significant facts have been ealled to,the attention of Miss L.N. Malcl8s, in charge of the empilation of the report,

2.- Work carried out on the national level :

The news of' the creation of the Gennan Mational Bibliographical Can- mission has been spread all over Germany. Several organizations asked to be aciinitted for collaboration. The Commission has been informed of diffep ent bibliographical entreprises (projects or cmpletcd) and it has been re- quested to give advice ar pass jugement on differmt bibliographical pro- j ec ts,

The Cminission does not want to act only as consultatif body but hopes that it may itself be able to carry out work destined to improve the Geman bibliographical services. It seems that the moment has come to continue the discussion started at the annual meeting of 1951 with a view to disclosing those bibliographical cntreprises which most need rs- vision or anendment. It is proposed to start an exchange of point of views by correspondence so that the next annual meeting may take the necessary decisions - as far as this will bc possible - concerning the Commission's future action. All menbers of the Ccrrrmission are invited to participate in this exchange of point of viavs which inwt not only disclose the lacunae and defects of the German bibliographical services which affect most the practical work of' the Commission1 s members but has, at the sane time, to indicate the necessary steps to be takcn to remedy to the situation.

1.- Brazilian Centre of Bibliography and Documentation _I_

The Conference on the Improvement of Btbliographical Services held in 1950 in Pans under the auspices of Unesco recmnended to the Director- General of the Organization that et National Bibliographical Centre should be established in Latin America as a Unesco !'pilot project*', The 6th session of the General conference of Unesco in 1951 agreed in principle and the Executive Boardiln the same year accepted a request from the BE+ilian Government that the Centre should be in Bmzil.

Dr. H. Coblans, former librarian of Unesco was appointed Unesco con- sultant early in $353. He arrived in Rio de Janeiro in &!larch.

In the original request, the Centre mas to have been integrated into

zation in the social sciences in Rio de Janeiro. In response to the wishes the work of the F'undaggo Getulio Vargas, a research and teaching organi-

of interested groups who insisted on widening the Centre's scoper thG In= stituto Brasileiro de EducagZo, Ciencia e Cultura (IBECC) ,' th6 National Commission for Unesco, appointed a special cormittee in 1952, consisting of Dr. J. Floms (Chainnan), Sra. L. Sambaquy (FundagZo Getulio Vargas) I

i'S/073 3 9

- 0 -

Dr. 0. Martins (Conselho nacional de Pesquisas - CIU?q), Dr. Vianna Dias (Instituto Osvaldo Cmz) to study the plans for th8 Centre.

In May 1953 a proposed structure emerged from the deliberations, the main features of which are as follows :

a) The financial sponsors of the Centres are to be the FundagZo Getulio Vargas and the Conselho nacional de Pesquisas (Federal Research Counoil for Pure and Applied Science).

b) National organizetioB, such as the Biblioteca nacional and the universities will c ol labora te .

c) "he Centre is to be created as a legal organ of the CNPq, Thus it will be part of an official body under the :'residency of the Republic.

Since his arrival in Brazil Ijr. Coblans has concentrated on sur- veying library and bibliographical resources of the country and studying the needs of scientists and scholam in order to establish a realistic p r o g m e . This progransne w i U include the follawing activities and aims :

- 1.- National bibliography ; The Biblioteca nacional publishes the list of its accessions in Boletim bibliograf'ico, - which has been published regularly twice a year sin=-1951 after having appeared sanewhat irregular.. ly in the l94O's. The Instituto de Livro by publishing the Bibliografia Brasileira tries t o fill the gaps retrospectively, Thus for the period 1938-1 950, the only years for which printed bibliographies are not yet available are 1942,1949 and 1950.

The Centre's role will be to make sure that these bibliographies appear rapidly and sufficiently complete.

2,- Special bibliographies : The are only few special bibliographies in Brazil which have been systematically ccmpiled. The most urgent needs will have to be determined and the preparation and printing of the necessa- ry bibliographies either cammissioned or directly subsidized.

3.- Periodical' articles : The Centre proposes to supply abstracts in Frenoh and Knglish -0f'Brazilian articles of value CO foreign specia- lists and put them at the disposal of the chief abstracting services in the natural scienccs,md teohnology: and the sobiat sciences. Foreign abstracts are to be translated into Portuguese for interested Brazilian

services, for example the Bibliogxafia eco&,nico-social, a monthly .puhfi- cation of the Fundaggo Getulio Vargas.

4. - Catalo : a) &-operative cataloguing : Since 1952 there has existed * as part o the Fundafio Getdio Vargas the "Servicio de Inter- gambio de Cataloga@7oW a service charged to prepare and print mrds of books recently accessioned by a certain number of Brazilian Iibmrics, mainly established in the Rio de Janeiro area. The Centre will help this service to become really national in scope, in which a13 I3razilian libra- ries cooperate and which will be capable of extending its publication of

cards to all Brazilian books of pennenant value, If this is to be achieved, Brazilian lihrarians must establish standards for the cards, particularly as far as the authors' names are concerned. Also the Centre will endeavour 'X/073 .39

- 9 -

to canpile a list of subject headings for the public libraries. The list for the research libraries mi&t be compiled latxr on. logues : The Yiervicio de Intersmbio de Catalogapotf is also compil&g a union catalogue of books on cards and will study the application of photogmphic and' other mcthods for incoqorating the catalogues of the holdings of the principal libraries of Brazil. c) The union cztnlaguc of periodicals is of the utmost imTortance for research work ; funds to ccmpiibe it provided by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1938 made possible the cmpilp.tion on printed cards of a union catdogue of the medical m d biological periodicals received by the principal libraries of Brazil. The work wzs interrupted in 1943. It is n m important to start, without f u p ther delay, the cmpil3tion of the union catalogue of' periodicals devoted to a11 the pure and applied sciences and a catalogue of periodicals in th- humanistic and social sciences.

b) U,nion cab- 4

5.- gicrofilm service : The use of microcopiy and related techniques as a method of making local and foreign publications availz-ble to re- -~ search workers and students is not very popular in Brazil. However, in zt country like Brazil where iibnry collections are very scattered theso methods deserve to be more intensively applied, especially because they could be an important economy for libraries.

It is proposed therefore, to crmte 3 syecial section as part of the Centra to collect'ii3omation on foreign sources of' microfilm and to satisfy requests emanating from Brazil 2nd frm abroad concerning ma- terial available in the Federal District. In ordar to make the use of microfilm ,nore popular in Brazil, wnich is indispensable if the micra- fil.ii section of the Ccntm is to become 3 re-Xty, microfilm readers should be displayed and, if necessary, arrsngcments made to facilitate their iriportation . It may even be desirxble to lcnd microfilm re2dd-s at a ncminal rental for the first fem years.

6.- Clearing house 2nd information service : As a body for the pro- vision and exchange of infom.tion the principal duties of the CentE. will be : to give information and advice on 211 c-uestions relating to bib1iograph;r and modern techniques of libmry science ; to canpile, on re- quest bibliographies in the fields of the natural and social sciences ; to carry out definite tasks, for instance the compilztiob of a gukde .$e cf36 resources of special libraries in Brazil.

On account of the valuzble contribution which Latin %erica can and must make to the work of' such bodies as the Intern'itional Council of Scien- tific Unions, the Internationd Federation for Documcntntion, the Centre should act as the Secretariat for Brazilian participation in theirtvork relating to bibliography and documentation. It may 3150 be antrusted by IBECC with cert?in tasks in which Uncsco is espGcially interested.

The researches which the Centre will carry out and the solutions which it will propose to problems of docurilentntian will be useful not only to Brazil but to all Latin American countries. Its sphere of in- fluence will become more even enlarged as Unosco and the various inter- ested national authmities a m able to offcr fellowships for South AmemCan students to stay for some time at tho Centre whtlre they will get acqua5n- ted with the theory and tho practice of the profession of documentalist,

- lo - 2.- National Camnittees for Science Abstracting of the Advisory Canmittcc

for Docdauntation in thc finturd Sciences.

% formation Ot camittees hitherto generically known by this name is the result of action taken by the Secretariat of tho Department of Natuml Sciences of Unesco to carry out Recanmendation no. 7 in the Find Act of the Infenational Conference on Science Abstracting which was held in Unesco House from 20 to 25 June 1949, the text of which is as follows :

'*It is recammended that Unesco approach, through the Natio- nal Canmissions of its b b e r States or other suitable channels, scientists and abstrxting agencies in each country with a view to constituting standing camittees on scienoa which would either be national or regional depending upon agreement among several countries. These camittees should opem2te on a voluntary basis and the cost should be kept ~CJW. *hay should be free to correspona directly with each other, with Unesco, with the international scientific unions and with any 0~0bas body &hey cib.oose.

abstracting

Their primary function would be to study abstracting with a view to ensuring adequacy. In particular their aims should be th3t :

a> Scientific publications published in their own region are adequately listed and abstracted ;

b)

c)

Scientists in their owh region are adequately supplied

The recommendations of this Conference a m considered

with abstracts of papers published in foreign countries ;

and implemented where possible.

Up to the present camittees for these purposes, varying in size, scope of activitas and local name, have been constituted or have been recognized as already existing In the follairing fourteen Bdember States :

AUSTRALIA : Mr. J.F.H. TRIGMI is Convenor of a Canmittee fonned for tliis purpose-by the Camnonwealth Scientific and Industrial Ressarch 0- ganization in 1950.

AUSTRIA : I&-. Leo KIRSTE is President of' such a Comittec formed by the "Oesterrcichische GeseIlschaft fur Dokcmentation und Bibliognphiefr,

CANADA : Mr. Garnet T, PAGE is Chairman of a working poup set up by the m a l Research Council in 1951 to function in this capacity.

.---.I,

DENJARK : Prof. Jacob NIEZSXN is Chainnan of a Canmittec for this pur- - Pose consktuted in 1950 by the Danish Academy of Science and Letters.

b;s/073 39

-11-

FRAYCE : A kmnittee was formed in March 1953 but has not yet appoin- - tea a pemanent Chainzn.

I; I S W X : Hr, E. CFE"ACHER is hairman of a Sub-Cmittcc for Do- ---. cumentation formed in 1953 under the Natiofial Camittee for Nahral Sciences existing under the National Ccmmission for Unesco which is attached to the Ministry of Education and Cultux.

NEHTXXLAIYE : Professor H.,Yi, in7033DB~' is Presidcnt of a Cmnittee --- under the Nedcrlands Instituut voor Docmefitatic en Registratuur.

NElriT Z3ALNX) : Dr. F. J. FILZVIIB is Chaimn of 2 Comaittee which has ----- existed for this purpose since 1949 and is sdministmed by the Unesco Secretariat forming part of the New Zealand Education Department.

---I NORViAY.: Er. J. ANSTEINSSON is maiman of the Litfrature Cornmittcc of the Royal No,rwe@an Council for Scientific and Industrial Rcsmrch which undertook in 1950 to act in the capacity desired, but no rcports of its activities have since been received.

Fi-IILIPPINES : Dr. Amando C L B m E is Chairman of a Committee formed in 1952 t.Jh'ich is naw endeavourin2 to activate,

SfiEDED : It was reported in 1950 that Tekniska Litteratursdllskapet had undertaken-to act in the capacity desired, No rcports have yet been recei.miL L-

SvYXTZEGAND : Dr. Pierre BOURGBIIS is Chaimn of the Stviss National _I-----

Bibliographical Committee established as a sub-cmmittea of the IIJsltional Cowllission for Unesco , which has undertaken to concern itself also with science abstracting.

.c-- !CuRKZY : Professor Ratip BERKE3 is Prcsidsnt of a Cmmittec consti- tuted for this purpose in 1952 under the National Ccmmissioii for Unesco,

UNITED KINGDOM : Dr. Charles KtEOCKS is Chcirman of the Abstracting Services Consultative Camittee formed after the Scientific Information Conference of the Royal Society in 1948 w&ich is the prototype of these Committees in other countries.

In addition to the above mentioned Mmber States, tha Secretnriat of the Department is in correspondence rezardine efforts to constitute such camittees in 27 others. There are Ercunds for hoping that these efforts 1

may soon be successful in six of them. ln the reaaing sixteen &mber Statcs such action is considcred unnecessary or is not possible at present.

In accordance with thc recaawendations made by the Previsional Ad- visory '"ittee on Science Abstracting at it? last meeting held on 20- 21 October 1952 a new international Advisory %"ittee for Documentation in the lVatural Sciences has been fonned and arrangements have been made

- 12 - for this to work in closc lizison aith the International AAvisory (=onnittee on Bibliography. (1) Its busiexs ;:ill include matters relating to the further developnent and activities of the Gtionnl C d t t e e s described above and their linkage with the national bibliographical planning gmups. The first mentioned have been informed of six local documentary tasks which the old Provisional Advisory Camittee at its meeting suggested they might usefully undertake, if not already accomplished, namely :

.1,- Examination and c m e n t on relevant Unesco progmrmes and local execution of these.

2.- Submission of an annual report to the main Advisory Committee.

3.- Canpilation of a list of scientific periodicals publishad in the country.

4.- Indication of the extent thnt the contents of these periodicals are referenced ip abstract and bibliographical bulletins, and action to improve auch cove rage

5.- Distribution of the "Guide for the Preparation and Publication of Synopses" to their publishers,

6.- Distribution of the Fair Copying Declaration of the fioyal So- ciety of London, 2nd action to extend its acceptance.

Up to 30 Juns 1953 replies undertaking 2.11 or sane of these ksks have been received fram nine Member States. It is later intended to propose others.

4 i

) See : Biblbiographicsl Newsletter, vol. I, no. 2, October 1952, pa 16- 17 and Vol. 11, no. 1, January 1953, pe 5,