News from the Nairobi Office
Executive summary and highlights of the Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2008
Read more about LC's Overseas offices
There are several recent articles and reports about the activities of the Library of Congress's Overseas Offices:
"Out of Africa ... Into International Libraries: The role of the Library of Congress Nairobi Office in building Africana library collections," Pamela Howard-Reguindin. World library and information congress ; 73rd IFLA General Conference 2007.[PDF/743.0 kb]
"Initiatives in Kenya for Digitizing, Indexing and Preserving Newspapers," Pamela Howard-Reguindin. World library and information congress ; 73rd IFLA General Conference 2007. [PDF/239.0 kb]
"Understanding the World: the Library's Operations Overseas,"
Carol Mitchell and James Amstrong. Library
of Congress Information Bulletin, Vol. 64 no. 5 ( May 2005) pp. 107-115.
"To the Ends of the Earth: Acquisition work in the Library of
Congress overseas offices,"
Pamela Howard-Reguindin. Library Collections, Acquisition & Technical
Services, Vol 28 (2004) pp. 410-419.
Recent Publications
- Information brochure about the Nairobi office now available in
English, French, Portuguese and Swahili.
Download your PDF copy in:
- English [PDF/755.0 kb]
- French [PDF/896.0 kb]
- Portuguese [PDF/1097.0 kb]
- Swahili [PDF/365.0 kb]
- Or request a hard copy from Nairobi Office
to view PDF documents
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Library of Congress
Comments: Nairobi Office
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