Papers on national bibliographies and bibliographic control, which were presented at the 1983 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, include: (1) "Bibliographic Control of IFLA Publications: Retrospective and Current" by Mona Madsen (Denmark), which outlines types of IFLA documents, existing bibliographies, and methods of retrieving information on the earliest communications and also reports the recommendations of the working group on bibliographic control of IFLA communications; (2) "Retrospective National Bibliographies in the Context [of] Universal Bibliographic Control," in which Marcelle Beaudiquez (France) presents recommendations by the IFLA Section on Bibliography for producing cumulative volumes of current national bibliographies and an annotated inventory of retrospective national bibliographies; (3) "Different Outputs and Possible By-Products of Automated National Bibliographies, as Illustrated by the Deutsche Bibliothek" by Dieter Wolf (West Germany); (4) "National Standards as an Aid to Bibliographic Control in the FRG [Federal Republic of Germany]" by Karl Wilhelm Neubauer (West Germany), which describes the history of standardization in German libraries and the types of standards and cataloging rules currently used for bibliographic control; and (5) "Developments in National Bibliographies since the Paris Congress of 1977" by Richard H. A. Cheffins (United Kingdom), which reports on production of Third World national bibliographies, Cataloging-in-Publication (CIP) programs, and development of retrospective national bibliographies. (ESR)