1. IESALC - INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION SERVICE (SID) Research interest on Higher Education (HE) issues started in the late 60s in the LA region The Regional Centre for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean was created in 1978 and, a year later, the Information and Documentation Centre started operations. The SID is the only library specialized in HE issues within REDUN (National Network of Libraries specialized in Education).

2. What resources/services we have? BOOKS & DOCUMENTS 11.215 Records & +/- 3.500 Analytical summaries & 763 digitized front covers CD-ROMs 41 Hosted in our owned CD-Server FREE INTERNET ACCESS. ERIC. WORLD ACADEMIC DATABASE. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE MAESTROS. IRESIE (43.855). HEBBIB. LATINO IV IESALC - INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION SERVICE (SID) ONLINE PERIODICALS 12

3. What resources/services we have? IESALC - INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION SERVICE (SID) OPAC CATALOGUE

4. ¿ What are the Latin American periodicals in HE subjected to analytical cataloguing? IESALC - INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION SERVICE (SID) IESALC LATIN AMERICA GROUP FOR REFORMING AND IMPROVING EDUCATION UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA METROPOLITANA UNAM

5. IESALC - INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION SERVICE (SID) CURRENT CONSTRAINTS: The SID is a single-staffed library service. User expectations go beyond our thematic coverage (there is not UNESCO Library in the country) Most publications issued in Latin America and related to Higher Education issues are not covered by international indexing services. Most bibliographic production in the higher education area falls into the grey literature

6. IESALC - INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION SERVICE (SID) ONGOING PROJECTS:. Digital Observatory in Latin American Higher Education 12 Editions / Coverage of 7 countries / 5.000 recipients Latin American Higher Education Legislation on CD-ROM Capture and validation of data pertaining to the key governing authorities of Latin American Higher Education Institutions (5.215 emails captured at present. The goal for 2003 is 100.000 emails of governing university boards captured) Reinforcement of the library collection