IFLA 1984 in Kenya - Biological and Medical Libraries Report

Examining the Feasibility of Implementing IFLA Guidelines in the Iranian Public Libraries

Purpose: IFLAchr('39')s approach is to move towards developing qualitative guidelines and examining the feasibility of implementing these guidelines in the countries using them. The present research has been conducted with a view to formulating the related qualitative guidelines and surveying the feasibility of their implementation in the context of Iranchr('39')s public libraries. Method: The...

WSIS, IFLA, UNESCO and GATS: networking for libraries on an international level

Purpose: The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) shows the political dimension of the global information society. This article considers the state of WSIS after the second phase and shows possibilities for libraries to participate in the WSIS implementation. Furthermore, relations between WSIS, GATS and the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultura...

Medical libraries in hospitals.

THE Sheffield Regional Hospital Board acting on the recommendation of its Medical Committee considered that it was necessary to establish an adequate library service for medical and dental staff in the Regional Hospitals and decided, in September 1963, to set up a Working Party to examine the whole question and make recommendations. Each of the five main clinical areas in the Region was asked t...

Combinatorial libraries and biological discovery.

Combinatorial chemistry has become a popular tool for the preparation of collections of compounds that can be used to find inhibitors and substrates for different protein targets. It has evolved to provide small molecule libraries, which, with the concomittant use of affinity chromatography, gene expression profiling and complementation, can be used to identify compounds and their protein targe...

Association of American Medical Colleges. Annual meeting and annual report, 1984.