FOURTH COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION CONFERENCE (NOVEMBER 1967)

                                          THE ROLE OF BOOKS AND LIBRARIES

                                               Presented by the Government of Britain

Introduction

This paper outlines the major needs and problems as they appear in Britain. While the British Council, the Ministry of Overseas development and the leading British publishers between them have, through their work in the field, an extensive knowledge of the need for books and the problems of their production and distribution in developing countries: this knowledge cannot be complete without the active participation of the developing countries themselves. This paper consequently owes much to the leading paper on the provision of textbooks and other books presented at the Second Education Conference at Delhi 1961, and to the conclusions of the Third Conference at Ottawa in 1964