Edited text of an interview with Joseph
Soosai, former Chief Librarian, Rubber
Research Institute of Malaysia, about his
seventeen years' involvement with the
regional activities programmes of the
International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
Discusses the origins and organization of the
programme, the establishment of the Regional
Development Fund and IFLA's core
programme for the Advancement of
Librarianship in the Third World (ALP).
Emphasizes the important contribution which
regional and subregional library associations
can make to library development in the Third
World and proposes the establishment of a
worldwide network of national, subregional
and regional associations, with IFLA at the
apex.
