Pils For The Librarian
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Attendance at any conference, seminar or workshop concerned with the Pacific region serves to bring home one truth that needs to be emphasised with much weight. The rate of development is such and the range of interests in the region is growing at such a rate that it is essential that means be found whereby information may be spread as widely and as effectively as possible. The South Pacific Commission has for many years acted as a clearing house for technical information about the Pacific and, more recently, the establishment of the PEACESA 7 satellite system has given a further dimension to information dissemination.
For specialist groups, however, there still exists the need for services that meet their particular needs. Librarians are typical of these workers who feel the necessity to know what is going on elsewhere in the region, which affects their work. Therefore it is a pleasure to note the appearance o/ PI LS Pacific Information and Library Services Newsletter. The Graduate School of Library Service at the University of Hawaii is responsible for the production of PI LS, which is to be a quarterly publication and which will report on developments in library and information services in the Pacific". Harold V. Bonny, in the first issue of PILS, comments on its prospectus and says —* / applaud this because, inter alia, it will: (I) facilitate communications between librarians and the exchange of ideas and information, (2) help professional development, education and qualifications, (3) encourage the enthusiasm of librarians; libraries develop in direct relationship to the enthusiasm and professional ability of librarians. ”
Volume I, Number I gives an indication of the scope of PILS as it deals with the work of PEACESA T. the new Journal Pacific Studies, the Hawaii Medical Library, Library for the Blind and Handicapped, book notes, the South Pacific Commission Library and exchange publications. PILS has begun at a modest level, it is to be hoped it will command the support which
w/// ensure its continued existence.
W. C. Coppell