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The 12 papers in this collection were presented during the meetings of three sections of the Division of Regional Activities: (1) "Which Way African Librarianship?" (Kingo Mchombu); (2) "The Expansion of the University of the Air of Japan and the Changing Function of Regional University Libraries" (Katsuhiro Jinzaki); (3) "Mobilization of Library Resources for Literacy, Knowledge, and Development in the English-Speaking Caribbean" (Albertina Jefferson); (4) "Los recursos bibliotecarios en America Latina. Panorama general" (Library Resources in Latin America. The General Panorama) (Rosa Maria Fernandez de Zamora); (5) "Public Libraries. Information and Citizenship" (May Brooking Negrao and Sonja Regina Ceu Bertonazzi); (6) "Technological Prospects for Libraries in Developing Countries" (Edward J. Valauskas); (7) "Community Information and Referral Services in Rural Areas of Southeast Asia: A Conceptual Framework" (Katni Kamsono Kibat); (8) "Impact of Information Technology on Libraries in India" (Janak Raj); (9) "The Third Wave and the Third World Libraries" (K. Navalani); (10) "The Future of Librarianship in Africa" (Anthony Olden); (11) "El manejo de informacion sobre cultura popular: una estrategia de la biblioteca publica para estimular el acceso al conocimiento y apoyar procesos de alfabetizacion" (The Management of Information on Popular Culture: A Strategy of the Public Library To Stimulate the Access to Knowledge and To Support Literacy) (Myriam Mejia); and (12) a paper on Information Science (Shawky Salem). (MAB)

More than 60 papers presented at the 1987 Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference on telecommunications needs, primarily in and around the Pacific region, are included in this volume. Contributions from major industry user groups, governments, developmental institutions, and the small user are represented. Four keynote addresses open the proceedings: (1) "The New Zealand Communications Environment: Goals, Demands, Pressures" (Jonathan Hunt); (2) "Consolidating Communication Services in a Multi-National Environment" (Edmond J. Blausten); (3) "Telecommunications and the Emerging Global Corporation" (R. W. Sturm); and (4) "International Users: Their Place in Planning" (Peter Smith). Papers are then presented chronologically to reflect the focus of the three conference days. Papers from the first day focus on large business and industrial users, including users and providers, user perspectives, national developments, and technical applications. Government and public users were examined on the second day, including public and private networks, using the broadcast medium, shared tenant services and teleports, and using information systems. National developments in Chile (paper is in Spanish), Canada, Japan, and Korea are presented in this section. Papers from the final day look at rural, remote, and small users, including the new environment, educational uses, and applications of small aperture earth stations. (MES)