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A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy. Focusing on UNESCO's use of books, Sarah Brouillette identifies three phases in the agency's history and explores the literary and cultural programming of each. In the immediate postwar period, healthy economies made possible the funding of an infrastructure in support of a liberal cosmopolitanism and the spread of capitalist democracy. In the decolonizing 1960s and '70s, illiteracy and lack of access to literature were lamented as a \"book hunger\" in the developing world, and reading was touted as a universal humanizing value to argue for a more balanced communications industry and copyright regime. Most recently, literature has become instrumental in city and nation branding that drive tourism and the heritage industry. Today, the agency largely treats high literature as a commercially self-sustaining product for wealthy aging publics, and fundamental policy reform to address the uneven relations that characterize global intellectual property creation is off the table. UNESCO's literary programming is in this way highly suggestive. A trajectory that might appear to be one of triumphant success—literary tourism and festival programming can be quite lucrative for some people—is also, under a different light, a story of decline.

This article is a first step in a research project that studies the existence, identity and agency of civil society actors that engage directly with the international minority protection regime. It provides a preliminary description and typology of civil society actors focusing exclusively on minority protection and presents a dataset on these actors constructed from a wide range of sources, including the Yearbook of International Organizations. It also gives an insight into the agency and influence of civil society actors specialising in minority protection by looking at some of their strategies for norm entrepreneurship, also drawing from the findings of contributors to this special issue. By outlining a research agenda, this article identifies questions that explore the perspectives of civil society actors on the weaknesses and strengths of the current international minority protection regime with a view to identifying potential pathways for its improvement.

Day reviews The International Year Book and Statesman's Who's Who 2006 (53rd edition) by Martinus Nijhoff.

Book review abstract. London: Library Association Publishing, nd, 376pp., 60.00 pounds. ISBN 1856044033. Reviewed by Maurice B. Line.

\"International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2000-2001: Collection Management\" edited by G. E. Gorman is reviewed.

\"International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2000-2001: Collection Management\" edited by G. E. Gorman is reviewed.

SCHOLARLY E-PUBLISHING Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era: International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2004-2005. Facet, dist. by Neal-Schuman. 2005. c.219p. ed. by G.E. German. index. ISBN 1-85604-536-6. $175.