International Federation of Library Associations Annual Conference Papers. Education and Research Division: Library Theory and Research Section (47th, Leipzig, East Germany, August 17-22, 1981).

Seven of these ten papers are concerned with library research in specific countries; the remaining three deal with library planning and ethics in research. Titles are "The Library as a Cultural Institution," by Jadwiga Kolodziejska, Poland; "The International Seminar 'Book and Library in Society' of the Polish Book and Readers Institute and the IFLA Section of Library Theory and Research: A Presentation of the Problems and Results of Contemporary User and Reader Research," by Diann D. Rusch, West Germany; "The State of Library Research in Japan," by Tamiko Matsumura; "The Planning and Co-ordination of Library Research in the UK," by Patricia Layzell Ward, England; "The Coordination of Library Research in the German Democratic Republic," by Helmut Kubitschek, East Germany; "The Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg and the Beginnings of a German National Library," by Ursula Mende, West Germany; "Library Research in the Federal Republic of Germany," by Hans-Albrecht Koch, West Germany; "Library Planning and Centralized Library Services in the Federal Republic of Germany," by Dieter Oertel, West Germany; "Organization and Coordination of Research in the Field of Library Science," by V. D. Stelmakh, USSR; and "The Need for a Professional Code of Ethics in Research," by Michel Albaric, France. (RBF)