Roman Showcase for Training in Information Work.

The article reports that the Italian National Information Institute attracted two cabinet ministers, an undersecretary, and one hundred foreign documentalists and an equal number of their countrymen to their International Conference on Training for Information Work that held at Rome, Italy during November 15-19, 1971. The Conference had been billed as being under the sponsorship of the International Federation for Documentation. It was clear from the conference's beginning that the Italian hosts hungered for recommendations to present to their governmental superiors.