"According to Professor Coetzee, librarians should receive a training which enables them to fulfil a dual role, an educational role and a university role — The first is to help young people to become teachers or to prepare for professions demanding scientific knowledge — The second consists of h ... elping teachers and research workers to increase their knowledge by means of documentation and reasoning — In both cases the social role of the librarian is to preserve intellectual, moral or ethnic culture and to facilitate contact between the different groups of society." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 499, topic code 19) more