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"An anthology on international publishing including such aspects as freedom to publish, publishing for human development, international book fairs, piracy, children's publishing, global problems of scholarly publishing, educational publishing, and - specifically for developing countries - training a ... more

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Book Production Techniques. Two Reports. 1/2: Report of a Workshop on Book Production Techniques, Held at the Malawi Institute of Education, Domasi, Malawi, 16-27th April 1984. Report of a Workshop on Book Production Techniques, Held at the Institute of Education, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 6-19 March 1983

Bonn: Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (DSE), Zentralstelle für Erziehung, Wissenschaft und Dokumentation (1984), 147, 103 pp.

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The Book Trade of the World. Vol. IV: Africa

Sigfred Taubert, Peter Weidhaas (eds.)

Munich: Saur (1984), 391 pp.

"The fourth and final volume of the Book Trade of the World, a series of books that aimed to provide a convenient reference tool to the world's publishing and bookselling industries, and to the institutions, organizations, and journals which are associated with them. The information on each country ... more

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Books and Reading in Jamaica

Marlene A. Hamilton

Paris: UNESCO (1984), 50 pp.

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Réflexions sur la promotion du livre Africain

Yves-Emmanuel Dogbé

Lomé: Editions Akpagnon (1984), 118 pp.

"Réflexion sur le statut du livre en Afrique et analyse des nombreuses difficultés rencontrées lors de l'écriture, de la publication et de la distribution de livres en Afrique. L'auteur, qui est un éditeur togolais de premier plan, soutient avec force que la production de livres est une entrepr ... more

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Le livre et la lecture en Irak

Nawaf Adwan

Paris: UNESCO (1984), 36 pp.

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Textbooks in the Philippines: Evaluation of the Pedagogical Impact of a Nationwide Investment

Stephen P. Heyneman, Dean T. Jamison, Xenia Montenegro

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, volume 6, issue 2 (1984), pp. 139-150

"The Philippine government, with the assistance of the World Bank, launched the $US37 million Textbook Project to alleviate the lack of textbooks in the nation's public schools. Prior to this investment, there was an average of 10 pupils for every book available in a given subject. During the first ... year of implementation, the Textbook Project produced ap-proximately 20 million first and second grade textbooks in science, mathematics, and Pilipino. These were distributed nationwide in the 1977-78 school year at a ratio of two pupils per book. In the course of its 5-year duration, the Textbook Project would produce 97 million books covering all subject areas from first grade through high school and would distribute enough so that there would be only two students per book at each grade level in each subject. Books cost an average of US$.55 each (for an average length of 180 pages); the overall program increased per student costs by about 1% (Orivel, 1979). Teacher training in the use of the books was part of the project. These and other aspects of implementation are described in detail by Aprieto (1983). Textbook content was geared closely to the national curriculum and tightly screened for clarity of presentation. Photo and colors were used judiciously. Because books were expected to be in use for up to 5 years, binding and stitching were of high quality. Distribution was made first to regional warehouses, then to municipalities, then to schools. Arrival time and textbook condition in the nation's 100,000 schools were monitored by computer in the capital. The success of the project was due not to simply having new textbooks, but rather to having new textbooks of high quality, reasonably on time, well understood, and well used by teachers. The Evaluation Section of the Textbook Project was formed primarily to investigate the effects of this sizable investment on student achievement. One year before the first sets of textbooks were distributed, an evaluation plan was designed, and instruments were developed to measure these effects. The plan was implemented during the first year of textbook distribution and has been a continuing component of the Textbook Project. The results presented here were obtained from the first-year evaluation data, otherwise known as Phase I. The effects of textbooks on achievement in conjunction with pupil, home, school, and environmental variables were examined, the primary concern being the increment in the achievement of pupils, given the use of the project textbooks, while other influencing factors were controlled." (Page 141) more

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Problems of the Book Trade Infrastructure in Developing Countries in Relation to University Library Objectives

B. U. Nwafor

IFLA Journal, volume 10, issue 4 (1984), pp. 357-369

"The article examines the situation of authors and publishers in developing countries: Lack of competent authors, of paper, of machinery, but also lack of scientific reputation of publishers characterize the situation; lack of foreign exchange limits the purchase of foreign books, making it difficul ... more

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The Future of the Book. Part III: New Technologies in Book Distribution. The United States Experience

Paris: UNESCO (1984), 34 pp.

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Developing Autonomous Publishing Capacity in Africa

Development Dialogue (Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation), issue 1-2 (1984), pp. 73-140

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U.S. Books Abroad: Neglected Ambassadors

Curtis G. Benjamin

Washington, DC: Center for the Book, Library of Congress (1984), 95 pp.

"The purpose of this study is to provide a document that endeavors to stimulate renewed and further awareness, first, of the dire need for U.S. books in less developed countries, and, second, of possible ways by which this need may be met, at least partially, under present conditions at home and abr ... more

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Publishing and Book Development in Africa: A Bibliography = L'édition et le développement du livre en Afrique: Une bibliographie

Hans M. Zell (comp.)

Paris: UNESCO (1984), 143 pp.

"The earliest version of the bibliography, superseded by the 1996 volume, lists titles by topic and region, and includes author, subject, geographical indexes. Cites 685 references, and includes an introductory essay in English and French. It is now also available online, and contains a number of ci ... more

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Textbooks in Developing Countries

Philip G. Altbach, Douglas Pearce, S. Gopinathan et al.

Prospects (Paris), volume 13, issue 3 (1983), pp. 315-369

"Detailed presentation of all aspects of textbook development, production, and distribution under the specific conditions of developing countries; one regional and two country-specific examples are used to go beyond the general information to show the concrete problems and possible solutions." (GIZ ... more

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The African Book World and Press: A Directory = Répertoire du livre et de la presse en Afrique

Hans M. Zell (ed.)

London: Hans Zell Publishers, 3rd ed. (1983), xx, 284 pp.

"The editors attempt to provide "comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information, in both English and French, on libraries, publishers and the retail book trade, research institutions with publishing programs, book industry and literary associations, major periodicals and newspapers, government a ... more