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The research reported in this article seeks to understand how and why individuals are appointed to serve as executive heads of international organizations. A simple statement of the behavioral rule used in selection of executive heads is developed in the form of an executive head appointment function. The type of data available for the analysis of the appointment of executive heads in international organizations is identified, and an empirical examination of changes in emphasis in the selection of executive heads is reported. The executive head appointment function utilized in the study views appointment as an executive head as a function of six factors (three organizational, one national, and two personal). Discriminant function analysis is used to determine if the function would distinguish between individuals appointed during the period 1945–57 and those appointed from 1958–70 as executive heads in UN treaty-based organizations. It is possible to distinguish, on the basis of the specified executive head appointment function, between executive heads appointed during the two halves of the time period under study. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the emphasis involved in the selection of executive heads has changed over time in UN treaty-based organizations.

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country

The central problem in national executive organization for water resources is that of fitting the service of specialized Federal agencies to the task of promoting the unified development of entire drainage basins. While technical recognition of the interlocking character of water resources development grew rapidly after 1920 and found expression in basin-wide plans, the administrative organization was unable to keep pace. It now presents conspicuous weaknesses which have been described by the Hoover Commission and its Task Force on Natural Resources. Remedial action involving the combination of several existing agencies and the creation of a central board of review have been recommended. An effort also has been initiated to correlate and reconcile the disperse and often conflicting Federal policies upon which the agencies are operating.

The object of the report is to present a complex approach to lifelong professional education of library specialists in the digital environment, used in the Far Eastern State Scientific Library, to disclose the factors influencing quantitative and qualitative indicators in this sphere, to identify problematic and positive aspects based on the results of activities for the period of 2017–2021. The main attention is paid to the system of lifelong education of the staff of public libraries in the Khabarovsk Territory, closely related to the activities of the Center for Professional Development on the basis of the Far Eastern State Scientific Library, founded in 2002 with the support of the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and received the first license in the Far East to conduct educational activities on the basis of the library institution in 2004. Licensed programs of upgrading skills of library specialists of the region, short-term training in the framework of non-formal education, information and methodological support of educational activities (generation of information resources in modern formats in modern formats on current areas of library activity, development of network educational projects aimed at improving professional level of staff of the Far Eastern State Scientific Library and municipalities of the Khabarovsk Territory, support of professional skills competitions, analysis of the libraries activities) are examined. In the context of the digital space formation, the efforts of the Far Eastern State Library are aimed at interacting with partner libraries, providers of information resources, updating pedagogical tools with an emphasis on a competencybased approach, expanding the list of educational programs, introducing distance learning on additional professional programs, and providing open access to digitized educational resources.

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country

Immunity for international organizations and their staff, while long considered necessary to their functioning, has fallen under scrutiny and criticism in practice. These contributions, originally prepared for a conference held at Leiden University in June 2013, are re-published here in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the International Organizations Law Review