ALADIN: An Example of Integrating Traditional and Electronic Services in the Digital Environment.

This article provides an overview of ALADIN (Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network) and reports on a worldwide survey carried out by the Documentation Centre of the UNESCO Institute for Education and co-financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology. The survey served as a first step towards implementing international co-operation and cross-border networking between adult education documentation and information services as part of ALADIN's activities. The survey helped to identify a variety of networking procedures and important components of organizing and cataloguing traditional as well as electronic formats on the global scale. Overall, the survey helped to provide data so that adult education can benefit from worldwide exchange of information and bring about the democratic globalization of knowledge. (Full report and information on ALADIN members are available at: http://www.unesco.org/education/aladin.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]