General Information

American Corners are small, American-style libraries located within a local partner organization, usually a library. American Corners are true partnerships with the local organization, because host institution personnel staff the Corners. Access to American Corners and their collections is free and open to all interested citizens of Kazakhstan.

Each American Corner features an English language collection of American fiction and reference books on U.S. government, history, culture. Corners also provide access to information about the U.S. through supervised Internet access, audio, and video recordings of American films and documentaries.

American Corners support local English instruction with an extensive collection of English teaching materials which are frequently used by local students, teachers and U.S. Peace Corps volunteers.

American Corners also offer U.S. speakers on a variety of topics and host a range of classes, clubs and activities.

For more information about American Corners in Kazakhstan please contact a Public Affairs Section of U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan or contact the Corners directly using the information provided below.

Almaty American Corner
State Youth Library named after Zhambyl
43, Furmanov Street (corner Mametova Street)
Tel.: 8 (727)  271 14 24 
Almaty@amcorners.kz
Website of Almaty American Corner
 
 
Shymkent American Corner
South-Kazakhstan Oblast Universal Scientific Library named after Pushkin
2a, Tauke-Khan Avenue
Tel.: (7252) 53-51-92
Shymkent@amcorners.kz
Website of Shymkent American Corner