Record ID:
36204292 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n 82167228
Heading:
Used for:
  • United States. Information Agency
  • United States. United States Information Agency
  • USIA
  • U.S.I.A.
  • U.S. Information Agency
  • US Information Agency
  • Servicio Informativo de los EE. UU.
  • Informativna sluzÌŒba Sjedinjenih AmericÌŒkih DrzÌŒava
  • Informativna sluzÌŒba Sjedinjenih DrzÌŒava Amerike
  • Forenede Staters Informationstjeneste
  • Agencia de Información de los EE. UU.
  • Yhdysvaltain tiedotustoimisto
  • WakaÌ„lat al-IÊ»laÌ„m al-AmriÌ„kiÌ„yah
  • Servicio Informativo y Cultural de los Estados Unidos
  • Servicio Informativo y Cultural de los Estados Unidos de América
  • Agence d'information des Etats-Unis
  • Mei-kuo hsin wen tsung shu
  • Informat︠s︡iĭne agentstvo SShA
  • Informat︠s︡iĭne ahentstvo SShA
See also:
Notes:
  • Known in the United States as the United States Information Agency (from 1982/83), formerly the United States. International Communication Agency (1978-1982). Known overseas as the United States Information Service established 1934, abolished in 1948 and later re-established. Works by these bodies are found under the name used at the time of publication.
  • Unused subdivisions: Bibliographic Division; Coordinator of Psychological Intelligence
  • U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Establishing United States Information Agency, 1953.
  • Semi-annual report of the Secretary of State to Congress ... Jan./June 1953: t.p. (International Information and Educational Exchange Program) p. 3 (The eleventh report... on the International Information and Educational Exchange Program is the last report; On Aug. 1, 1953, reorganization became effective. This plan consolidated the foreign information activities of the U.S. Government into one program administed by a new independent ageny--the United States Information Agency. The exchange-of-persons program... remains in the Dept. of State)
  • U.S. govt. man. 1983-84 (United States Information Agency; estab. 8/1/53. Name changed to International Communication Agency 4/1/78. Name changed back to United States Information Agency 8/24/82)
  • La Figura heroica, 1984: t.p. (Servicio Informativo y Cultural de los Estados Unidos) p. 4 of cover (Servicio Informativo y Cultural de los Estados Unidos de América)
  • Phone call to USIA, 6-19-86 (United States Information Agency is the name of the Agency as a whole; United States Information Service is the name usually applied to individual offices of the USIA; USIS used to be the name of the entire Agency, but was changed in 1948; in Spanish-speaking countries the individual offices are called Servicio Informativo y Cultural de los Estados Unidos; the word Cultural does not appear in the English form of the name)
  • Harter, J.J. Le vocabulaire des échanges commerciaux, between 1983 and 1986: t.p. verso (Agence d'information des Etats-Unis)
  • Liu Mei hsü chih, 1987 (1990 printing): t.p. (Mei-kuo hsin wen tsung shu) t.p. verso (USIA)
  • Report of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee to the President and the Congress, 1989?: t.p. verso (U.S. Information Agency)
  • American libraries (Online), Oct. 4, 1999 (agency abolished and functions transferred to Dept. of State, Oct. 1, 1999)
  • 112 Stat. 2681-776 etc. (P.L. 105-277) (1998; slip law): sec. 1311 (The United States Information Agency (other than the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the International Broadcasting Bureau) is abolished) sec. 1322 (a) (1) (The Broadcasting Board of Governors shall continue to exist)
  • Carroll's fed. dir., July/Aug. 1999 (United States Information Agency; on Oct. 21, 1998, the Senate voted to abolish this agency; some of its operations will be merged into the Dept. of State; [subord. unit] Broadcasting Board of Governors, chairman; International Broadcasting Bureau, director)
  • Carroll's fed. dir., Nov./Dec. 1999 (Broadcasting Board of Governors, chairman; in Oct. of this year Broadcasting Board of Governors & its International Broadcasting Bureau became a separate independent agency)
  • Reorganization plan and report (revised March 1999), submitted pursuant to Section 1601 of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, as contained in Public Law 105-277; posted Apr. 14, 1999; accessed via State Dept. web site, 4/4/2000 (Section 2, transfer of functions; (e) Broadcasting Board of Governors; effective Oct. 1, 1999, functions of the United States Information Agency related to int'l broadcasting shall be transferred to the Broadcasting Board of Governors)
  • Integrat︠s︡ii︠a︡ Ukraïny u svitove spivtovarystvo, 1999: t.p. (Informat︠s︡iĭne agentstvo SShA (USIA))
Local system number:
  • 000001211060
  • abv03445586
  • (AuCNL)846753
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng AKIN
Authentication code:
  • kin