Collecting and Safeguarding the Oral Traditions : an International Conference. Khon Kaen, Thailand, 16-19 August 1999. Organized as a Satellite Meeting of the 65th IFLA General Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand, 1999
""CONTENTS""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Keynote Address: ""; ""SAFEGUARDING PAPUA NEW GUINEAN CULTURE IN THENEXT MILLENNIUM: EDUCATIONAL REFORMS ANDPRESERVATION OF CULTURAL TRADITIONS""; ""General""; ""UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and oral tradition""; ""Technical aspects: care, handling and preservation: bibliography and glossary""; ""Regional studies""; ""AFRICA""; ""The importance of oral tradition for children: the case of the countries of the Sahel""; ""Oral tradition: from collection to digitization""; ""Oral tradition and libraries""; ""ASIA""
""Roles of libraries in promoting and preserving oral cultures""""Oral tradition in Thailand: a development perspective""; ""SEAMP (South East Asian Mountain Peoples� Programmes) for culture and development""; ""Inter-generational cultural transmission in Singapore""; ""EUROPE""; ""Collecting and preserving the French oral heritage : the role of a national library""; ""LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN""; ""The Cayman Islands Memory Bank: collecting and preserving oral history in small island societies""; ""South America: two cases from Venezuela and Peru""; ""NORTH AMERICA""