The 12 papers in this collection were presented at 6 sections of the Division of Education and Research: (1) "Emergence of the Asian Pacific Area and Its Impact on Education and Training of Librarians" (Maxine K. Rochester, Australia); (2) "The Cultural Aspects of Colonialism: Case Study of the Relevance of the Imported Curriculum for Library and Information Science Education to the Needs of Western Australian Society" (Patricia Layzell Ward); (3) "Closing the North/South Gap: Education and Training of Librarians for Another South Africa" (Mary Nassimbeni); (4) "The Continuous Education System at the Training Centre of the V. I. Lenin State Library" (L. S. Martynova); (5) "Organisation and Content of Postinstitutional Continuous Education of Instructors of Higher and Secondary Library Educational Establishments" (T. F. Karatygina and V. V. Skvortsov, USSR); (6) "The Conceptual Library Researches: Problematics, Methodology, Aims (GBL Experience)" (Natalia Tjulina, USSR); (7) "A Russian Librarian's View of European Libraries in 1859: V. I. Sobol'scikov's Grand Tour" (Peter Hoare, UK); (8) "Social Dynamics and Library Tradition (The Russian Libraries in the Years of Great Changes of History: 1905, 1917, 1989)" (M. Afanasjev, USSR); (8) "Reading and Reading Research in the United States in the Twentieth Century" (Pamela Spence Richards, USA); (9) "Social Aspects of Reading--The Case of Israel" (Shmuel Sever and Yosef Branse); (10) "Literature and Social Process: Soviet Scene" (Les Gudkov and Boris Dubin, USSR); and (11) "The Place of the Periodical Press in the Perestroika of Librarianship" (L. M. Inkova, USSR). (MAB)