Papers on scientific/technical information and libraries, which were presented at the 1983 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, include: (1) "Patents as Information--An Unused Resource" by Richard D. Walker (United States); (2) "Survey of the Information Services of the Library of the German Patent Office" by Eckhard Derday (West Germany); (3) "Prospects of Development of the Automated System of the State Public Library for Science and Technology within the Framework of the State Automated System of Scientific and Technical Information" by I. M. Kharina (USSR); (4) "A Progress Report on the Multi-Lingual Information Systems Project," in which Yasushi Sakai and Yoichi Terashita (Japan) describe the experimental processing of Arabic texts using LINKIT (the Kanazawa Institute of Technology library online catalog system based on 16-bit encoding and currently accommodating Japanese characters and symbols, as well as Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets in upper and lower case); (5) "Access to French Grey Literature: The Contribution of the Centre de Documentation Scientifique et Technique (CDST) du CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)," in which Jacques Keriguy (France) describes CDST activities in providing access to research reports, patents, standards, theses, translations, and other unpublished scientific and technical literature; and (6) "Research and Development Challenge: Better Services in Scientific and Technical Libraries," in which Peng Guiyuan (China) describes the operation and activities of the Library and Information System of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LISCAS). (ESR)