The UNESCO World Information Report provides a world-wide picture of archive, library and information services in. This sourcebook not only covers in detail the state of the art of archive, library and information services in the five continents, but also addresses the most challenging issues that they face at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
WWW site has full text of 10 of the 27 papers in the report, available to download as pdf files, in English or French.