IFLA General Conference, 1987. Division of Collections and Services. Official Publications Section. Papers.

The six papers compiled here cover topics related to government publications and bibliography. In "The Impact of the Use of New Technology in Government Publishing on Libraries," Bernadine E. Abbott Hoduski discusses the impact of the use of new technology by government publishers on the dissemination of government information to libraries, particularly depository libraries. In "L'impact des nouvelles technologies sur les publications officielles" (The Impact of New Technologies on Official Publications), Pierre Pelou points out that the quality of information services is determined not by the use of new technologies, but by the ways in which the librarian utilizes them to meet the information needs of users. In "Government Publications and the Concept of Rarity," Richard Landon considers the concept of rarity in terms of government publications and provides several examples of the scope of rare government publications. In "Survey of Bibliographic Services of International Intergovernmental Organizations: A Progress Report," Sylvie Jacque provides a progress report on a project which is updating an inventory of major bibliographic sources of intergovernmental organizations and conducting a survey of such materials in depository libraries. In "The International Bibliography: A Review," Nellie S. C. Moffitt examines the development of the "International Bibliography," a bibliographic quarterly for intergovernmental publications. In "Bibliographic Control, Use, and Reference Service for United Nations Publications in an Academic Library," Alfred Kagan discusses problems affecting access to United Nations documents. (MES)