Introduction by A J Loveday, Chairman of the Planning Committee -- Acknowledgements -- Opening Session -- The role of the university library in the German Federal system -- Problems for university libraries functioning in a national system in developing countries -- Part 1 Acquisitions -- The development of effective acquisition policies -- Parameters of expenditure: the allocation of funds to the purchase of materials and services to support the information needs of the university community in science and technology -- Problems of acquisition of overseas and local materials -- Acquisition of foreign periodicals in developing countries: the example of Brazilian libraries -- Collection Building and information services for material in special categories relevant to Third World use: I Agriculture -- Collection Building and information services for material in special categories relevant to Third World use: II Medicine -- Part 2 Information technology -- New information technologies available in the industrialised world -- Choosing the moment: a review of the re-organisational demands arising out of conversion to computerised systems -- Development of modern information technologies and their impact on research -- The application of automation to the library processes of the National Autonomous University of Mexico -- Using automated systems -- Part 3 Training -- H Mwacalimba, Future training needs -- Chairman's Closing Remarks -- Resolutions -- List of participants.