ABSTRACT
The 'library problem' relates to the increasing costs of acquiring, storing, and providing intelligent access to scholarly material. It is not a problem confined to economics libraries. Professor Giersch was able to get a sizeable appropriation from the Volkswagen Foundation to the German Economic Association to cover the lion's share of the costs of the conference. The ensuing paper, by Professor Isaac Kerstenetzky and his colleagues at the Brazilian Institute of Economics and Geography in Rio de Janeiro, describes in rather tantalizing detail the programme the Institute developed for presentation and analysis of the Brazilian 1970 population and other censuses. Dr Montague Yudelman identified some new uses of satellite technology for developing agricultural economics series. Miss Phyllis Deane was interested in the traditional sources of information and data and the requirements of the 'new' economic historians.
