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PUB DATE 71 NOTE 234P.;(15 References) EDRS PRICE EDRS DOCUMENT RESUME ED 052 811 LI 002 957 AUTHOR Hobbs, Cecil, Ed. TITLE Conference on Access to Southeast Asian Research Materials: Proceedings. [April 28 - 30, 1970, Washington, D.C.] SPONS AGENCY Association for Asian Studies, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 71 NOTE 234p.; (15 References) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.65 HC-$9.87 DESCRIPTORS Bibliographies, Cataloging, Conference Reports, *Foreign Countries, *Information Needs, *Information Processing, *Information Retrieval, *Library Materials, Researchers IDENTIFIERS *Southeast Asia ABSTRACT The delegates to this conference addressed themselves to the problem of determining the best courses of action for the improvement of access by researchers to library materials on Southeast Asia. This compilation which sets forth the deliberations of the conference is divided into three parts: the Conference Papers, the Discussion Sessions, and the Resolutions. The appendices provide the conference program and a roster of the conference participants. (Author/NH) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHEDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION T1-115 DOCUMENT HAS BEENREPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THEPERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT POINTSOF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DONOT NECES- SARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICEOF EDU- r,.4 CATION POSITION OR POLICY CONFERENCE ON ACCESS TO SCUTHEAST ASIAN CX) 0.1 RESEARCH MATERIALS: CD PROCEEDINGS edited by Cecil Hobbs Washington, D. G. 1971 PREFACE A Conference on Access to Southeast Asian Research Materials, sponsored jointly ; the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) of the Association of Asian Studies, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Library of Congress, was held on April 28-30, 1970 in the Whittall Pavilion at the Library of Congress. There were 58 persons from various institutions of higher learning and libraries which have an interest in Southeast Asian materials who attended the Conference. During the two and one-half days the assembled delegates addressed themselves to the problem of determining the best courses of action for the improvement of access by researchers to library materials on Southeast Asia. This compilation which sets fo):-.h the deliberations of the conference is divided into these three :,ay's: the Conference Papers, the Discussion Sessions, and the Rese13tions. The appendices provide the conference program and a roster of the conference participants. The Conference Planning Committee was comprised of the fol- lowing persons: David Kaser, Chairman, Director of Cornell Univer- sity Libraries; Cecil Byrd, Librarian of Indiana University Library; Donn Hart, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University and Chairman of CORMOSEA; Cecil Hobbs, Head of Southern Asia Section, Library of Congress; John Musgrave, Southeast Asia Bibliographer, University of Michigan Library; and Gordon Williams, Director, Center for Research Libraries. These proceedings have been reproduced in a limited number of copies as an operational document primarily for distribution within the Library cf Congress, to conference participants, and to selected libraries and institutions with Southeast Asian interests. It will not be possible, therefore, to honor individual requests for copies. The discussions following the formal presentation of papers were tape recorded and then transcribed from the tapes with minimum editing. It was not possible to submit these transcriptions to the participants for correction or clarification, nor has there been any attempt to convert the oral statements as recorded and transcribed to more formal written styles of presentation. Cecil Hobbs Associate Director of the Conference iii CONTENTS PREFACE WELCOMING REMARKS by Librarian of Congress I. CONFERENCE PAPERS 1. Book Industries of Southeast Asia by Stanley A. Barnett 3 Comments of Discussants by John Echols and Kenneth Landon 21 2. Comparative Acquisitions: Southeast Asia and Latin America by William Kurth 28 3. The Library of Congress in Southeast Asia by Frank M. McGowan 55 4. Nature and Distribution of Southeast Asian Research Materials by G. Raymond Nunn 59 5. Do We Need a Union Catalog for Southeast Asian Materials? by Giok Po Oey 77 6. Need for Cooperative Cataloging of Southeast Asian Materials by David Ray 88 7. Need for Improved National Bibliographies by Cecil Hobbs 99 8. Automated Bibliographic Control of Area Research Materials by John Musgrave 108 9. Development of Programs for Action by Fred Riggs 121 iv II. DISCUSSION SESSIONS 1. Tuesday afternoon, April 28 141 2. Wednesday morning, April 29 151 3. Wednesday afternoon, April 29 162 4. Thursday morning, April 30 197 5. Thursday afternoon, April 30 208 III. RESOLUTIONS IV. APPENDICES 1. Conference Program 232 2. List of Participants 234 V -4 WELCOMING REMARKS L. Quincy Mumford Librarian of Congress Thank you Dave and Cecil. I'll be very brief. I want to extend a very warm welcome to you and express our pleasure in having you meet here at the Library of Congress. I was reminded of the Con- ference in 1957 out of which some very tangible things came, in particular the exchange of materials, publications from India under the Wheat Loan. The designation of three depositories over here which was a very successful operation and I suppose we might regard that as the forerunner of the Public Law 480 Program generally whieh came a little later through legislation and amendment to the PL - /8O Act. So in looking over the program for this meeting, I can see that you have much to talk about in the nature of acquisi- tion, of cataloging organizational materials and general access to them. So I wish you the greatest success in the G,Itcome of this Conference and again its very good to have you in the Library of Congress. Thank you. CONFERENCE PAPERS 3 BOOK INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA Stanley A. Barnett Director, International. Operations Wolf Management Services Southeast Asia consisted of nine countries with 247 mil- lion inhabitants in 1968. In order of population they are Indo- nesia, with 113 million, or slightly more than one-half of the total; the Philippines and Thailand, with 36 and 34 million respectively; Burma with 25 million; Suath Vietnam with 17 mil- lion; Malaysia with 10 million; Cambodia with 7 million; Laos with almost 3 million; and Singapore with 2 million. Today I will discuss with you the book trade of this region. My conclusions are based primarily on a 1966 and 1967 series of A.I.D.-sponsored Wolf Management Services studies in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, South Vietnam and Laos, and on a current survey being conducted in Singapore and Malaysia by Indiana University's Cecil Byrd, who kindly forwarded some of his preliminary material. The meager data presented on Burma and Cambodia was derived from UNESCO Book Production Statistics; I have not been in either country. I will discuss five main topics: the nature and extent of the book trade in Southeast Asia; factors that have shaped the book trade; vignettes of the book markets in the several countries; characteristics of the book industries in the reg:Lon (including publishing, the physical traits of books, printing and distribu- tion); and lastly, a dozen requisites for sound development of the book industries. Nature and Extent of the Book Trade in Southeast Asia Relatively few books are produced in Southeast Asia; and relatively few are imported into the region. First, let's consider local production. The most recent UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, providing figures primarily for 1965, indicates an output of 10,349 book and pamphlet titles in South- east Asia: le BOOK AND PAMPHLET PRODUCTION BY TITLES, 1962 Thailand (1965) 4,083 Cambodia 740 Burma 1,898 S. Vietnam 671 Philippines 941 Singapore 208 Malaysia 898 Laos 119 Indonesia (1963) 791 Source: Table 4.2, UNESCO Statistical Yearbook 1966 These totals cover a wide spectrum, including school textbooks, university theses and trade books, as well as those intended for restricted readership (for instance, government publications and the output of learned societies and professional and political organizations). The book and pamphlet figures are combined because the data is available only in that form for all the eight countries. In point of fact, however, at least 20% of the titles are classified by the reporting countries as pamphlets, and a large additional number of those reported as "books" are pamphlets, if the UNESCO 49- pages- and -over definition for books is accepted. A "book" in the Philippines can have as few as 30 pages; in Thailand as few as 24 pages; in Indonesia as few as 16 pages; and in Laos, any bound, printed work of eight pages or more is defined as a book. The 10,349 total of locally-produced titles is further inflated to the extent that it represents reprints as well as new editions. Thus, for the Philippines, one of the countries of the group where the new edition-versus-reprint breakdown is considered accurate, almost one-half of the 941 reported titles were in the reprint category. On the other hand, information obtained from the Indonesian Publishers Association indicates that the UNESCO book and pamphlet totals for that country underestimate actual production by as much as 100%. In general, in-country attempts to verify the published UNESCO data indicated that the book production totals often were. inexact and/or approximate. UNESCO book and pamphlet statistics, inaccurate and approxi- mate as they are, show that regional production of titles grew about 17% per annum, or 68% in all, between 1961 and 1965. But this increase was uneven, both chronologically and by country. The 1964-1965 production rise was much sharper than in previous years. And while the outputs of a number of the countries (Burma, Cam- bodia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand) showed rapid growths in z. book and pamphlet production during the period, the Philippines had only an average rise, and production in Indonesia and South Vietnam remained even or showed decreases.
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