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.

Intro -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Keynote Address: Safeguarding Papua New Guinean culture in the next millennium: educational reforms and preservation 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 &amp -- 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 -- Traditional knowledge and northern wildlife management: the Arctic Circumpolar Route -- PACIFIC -- The role of the Fiji (National) Museum in collecting oral traditions -- The Oral Traditions Programme of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre -- Closing paper -- Beyond print: using the Internet for préservation and Stimulation of local culture.

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