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To Our Readers

E. Kuzmin. Policy of the R.F. Ministry of Culture in the area of development and integration of Russian libraries information resources

Ya. Shraiberg. Library and information superhighway Russia / CIS—USA in XXI century: conceptual approach and practical realization

V. Fedorov. Consolidation of libraries — the way to the third millenium

A. Antopolsky. Information resources of Russia: national report

O. Syuntyurenko. RFBR programs in the development of information instructure for science and education

T. Kiseleva. To humanize education — to humanize life

Yu. Grikhanov. New frontiers of library legislation in Russia and CIS

V. Golubev. Integration of agricultural information of Belarus into international information Space

V. Terehovitch. From isolation to cooperation: development of electronic documents delivery system in regional libraries

V. Soroko. Belarus Library Association: stages of formation and development

E. Bashun. Marketing and fundraising as speed—up factors of new library technologies introduction

O.Pokrovskaya. Shaping humanitarian culture through environmentally — oriented consciousness

IFLA's papers

Published are the papers presented at the 65-th IFLA General Conference (15—22 August 1998, Amsterdam)

Leo Waaijers. The new library, a hybrid organization

Harry East. A decade of experience in measuring academic database use

David Spiller. UK special library statistics: the challenge of collecting and analyzing data from libraries in the workplace

Stefan Gradman. Cataloguing US metadata: old wine in new bottles?