Mission of the Cairo Office
The mission of the Cairo office is to acquire and process commercial materials and government documents in six languages from twenty-one countries in the Middle East and North Africa, including Sudan and Turkey. It thereby contributes to the mission of the Library of Congress, viz., "to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations."
The office uses as its guidelines the Library's Collections Policy Statements. It keeps abreast of the current needs of the collections by communicating regularly with the Library's African and Middle Eastern Division as well as the Law Library, the Congressional Research Service, and other custodial divisions.
The secondary mission of the Cairo office is the management of the Middle East Cooperative Acquisitions Program (MECAP) on behalf of libraries and other research institutions to which the office supplies monographs and serials from commercial sources.
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