Joining nations 1947-1990

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PUBLICATIONS AND STANDARDIZATION

o NE of the most vexed problems which the IIW has had to confront throughout the whole course of its existence is that of making its work known . In fact, the problem is not one but several, embracing as it does working capital or the lack of it, international marketing, language and translation and the disparate nature of the material to be pub– lished. Some examples of these different types of material and the various means adopted by the IIW to make its work available to the welding public are illustrated in the following pages. DOCUMENTS The largest category of material produced by the IIW consists of documents prepared by the Commissions or their Chairmen. These fall into three categories. Annual reports ofChainnen of Commissions As we have seen, great emphasis was initially placed on the verbal presentation of these reports but by 1952 this ineffectual practice had been dropped; instead, each Chairman was required to submit to the Secretariats, after each Assembly, a detailed report on the work of his Commission. These reports were then edited and translated and initially issued to the member societies for publication in their journals. Later, they were regularly published in Welding in the World but, because of pressure on space, this practice had to be discontinued and eventually the obligation on Chairmen to prepare an annual report for publication was dropped.

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