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Read more about Library of Congress's Overseas offices
There are several recent articles and reports about the activities of the Library of Congress's Overseas Offices:
Executive summary and highlights of the Annual Report for Fiscal Year:
2007
2008 [PDF/29 KB]
2009 [PDF/150 KB]
2010 [PDF/121 KB]
"Obamabilia from Africa," Pamela Howard-Reguindin and Mary-Jane Deeb ; Library Services Journal, Vol.2, no.1, [PDF/2.1 MB] Spring 2009, pg. 22-24
"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) pg. 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) pg. 410-419.
Information brochure
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 PDFs
Last Updated: January 19, 2011
