International Organization Information / Research: 1991

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Prepared for Union of International Associations (Executive Council, 15th April 1991)
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Yearbook of International Organizations: Series composed of 3 volumes.Work on Volume 1 is being completed for the 28th (1991/92) edition for 15th April 1991 according to the established annual schedule. Work on Volume 2 and Volume 3 is now underway for publication in the summer.

The major issue indicated on the occasion of the last report was the possible restructuring of the whole Yearbook series due to both the
problem of space limitations and to that of user-friendliness. This issue has been successfully circumvented (or evaded) once again.
Saur finally agreed that the possible solutions identified by them were impractical, or of marginal value within the publishing constraints. It
was agreed, once again, that the UIA would find ways around the space constraint and would take minimal steps to increase userfriendliness
of the volumes.

The main decision taken in the case of Volume 1 has been to exclude Section R (religious orders) and certain classes of subsidiary body which had previously been included in Sections E or F. These bodies are already indicated in the text of the main entry and may have the same address. Some 597 bodies were therefore transferred to a new Section K.

Like Sections H, G, J and U, the entries of this section are not published in Volume 1. The index references are made to the parent body. The entries will however be more appropriately treated in Volumes 2 and 3.

On the problem of the user-friendliness of the index, a further simplified sorting order has been used to avoid confusion previously
encountered. It remains to be seen exactly what procedure will be possible for the next edition. It is expected, as noted before, that the argument will be made that "excess" inf ormation can only appear in the compact disk version of the Yearbook (see below).

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