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Unisist- Notes
Course: library and information science (BLISc)
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UNISIST
1. Introduction: The word UNISIST was never meant to be an
acronym but rather to connote phonetically the part that U. N.
Agencies particularly UNESCO should play in the promotion of
an international system for information covering science and
technology. UNISIST stood for the study of the conference and
for the programmers launched thereafter. So UNISIST is an
international project sponsor by UNESCO.
The two organizations UNESCO and ICSU jointly
formed a UNESCO / ICSU central committee in January 1967 to
carry out a feasibility study for a world science information
system. The feasibility study continued for about 4 years and in
1970 the report entitled UNISIST study report on feasibility of a
world science information system by UNESCO and ICSU was
published and widely distributed. The feasibility report was
prepared by Jean Claude Gardin. This report and a synoptic
version became the working document of the UNISIST inter
governmental conference held in Paris in October 1971.
A second conference, the inter-governmental conference
on scientific and technical information for development was
held in Paris in 1979 to review development since UNISIST
conference of 1971. This was known as UNISIST –II.
2. Aims and Objectives: The ultimate goal or keynote of
UNISIST is the establishment of a flexible and loosely
connected network of information services based on voluntary
cooperation. UNISIST aim to coordinate existing trends toward
cooperation and to act as a catalyst for the necessary
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