"The final report of a regional seminar on reducing the costs of school textbooks in Africa, which took place in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1983, and focussed on raising the awareness of government organizations about textbooks, what measures should be taken regarding the importation of textbooks, the ma
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nufacture and distribution of textbooks, training in the book industry, and regional cooperation. There are contributions from several countries including Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, Madagascar, Niger, Togo and former Zaïre." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1877)
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"The purpose of the present study is to focus precisely on the relationship between folk and mass media, on actual experiments that have been conducted in India to receive an integration of the two, on problems that were encountered in the process of integration." The author lists documentary films
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produced by the Films Division of India viewed in connection with the study." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 263)
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"A companion volume to Ralph Staiger’s “Roads to Reading” (1979), now inevitably rather dated, but still provides helpful guidelines and strategies for planning successful reading campaigns." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2223)
"Contains the working papers, contributions submitted by participants, and the final report of the Regional Meeting of Experts on National Book Strategies in Africa, which was held in Dakar in February 1982. It opens with a working paper submitted by the
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UNESCO Secretariat on National Book Strategies in Africa, followed by general overviews of the state of the book and publishing in Africa, and studies on book development and book policies in Benin, Congo (Brazzaville), Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. Now inevitably very dated, but still useful for historical background on the development of the book industries in several African countries." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 322)
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"In two parts: 'International Book Year Plus Ten' and 'Toward a Reading Society: Targets for the 80s.' The first of these is an analysis of present trends and forecasts for the future such as problems facing governments and all who are concerned with the production and distribution of books in an in
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creasingly complex and interdependent world. The second takes into consideration the results of national and international action over the past two years, puts forward measures to overcome the obstacles to book development identified in the first part, and proposes a new program." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1125)
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"Contains more than 900 entries on book publishing, including development and promotion; production processes like composition, copy preparation, editing; distribution; marketing; bookselling, copyright; graphic arts, lithography; paper, printing; seminars and training courses; typography; general a
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spects; and reference books." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1693)
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"An examination of '' [...] the position of books in the service of international understanding and international trade in books, including distribution networks and problems. It then turns to the standards that have been set and other measures to liberalize the flow of books." (Introduction). A lon
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g list of various kinds of information is given: facts and figures on production, exports and imports, and trade by category of book; distribution networks and problems, such as rights, language, transport charges, and quotas and frontier formalities; brief descriptions of agreements that set standards, such as the Berne and Universal Copyright Convention; and measures to ease the flow of books, such as GATT, UNCTAD, the UNESCO Coupon Scheme, the Universal Postal Union, the International Air Transport Association, government initiatives, and activities by book professionals. Contains a select bibliography." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1121)
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"This multilingual thesaurus in English, French, and Spanish provides a "documentation language" developed at the request of the Division of Communication Research and Planning of UNESCO. Precise terms designed to be used in post-storage retrieval
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of computerized documents are consistent with international documentation systems in related fields. The first part is a subject arrangement; the second part, an alphabetical listing." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 441 about the 1st ed. 1975)
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