BOOK DONATION
Total Number of Books Donated in 1991 -1996
Over 154,000 books and textbooks
Market Value of Books Donated in 1991 - 1996, more
than million
Number of Recipients in 1991-1996, over 350
institutions and 6800 individuals
- universities and high schools
- secondary and professional schools
- research institutions
- public libraries
- hospitals and health centers
- public organizations
- NGO's (association, foundations, unions, etc.)
- students
- medical doctors
- researchers and university professors
- engineers and technicians
- economists
- others
Since 1989, western literature and expertise have
been in great demand in Bulgaria. At the same time, schools,
libraries and individual students cannot afford to buy books
published abroad. Over the past five years, the CSD's Book Donation
initiative has become very popular in Bulgaria. Thousands of
recipients eagerly await the distribution of each shipment of
books.
CSD started its book donation act ivities as an
official partner to the US Sabre Foundation in November 1990. The
Sabre Foundation collects university level textbooks and other
specialized books published in the United States within the
previous three or four years, and ships them to Bulgaria for free
distribution. For its part, CSD is responsible for selecting the
most useful and relevant titles for Bulgaria. The books are then
processed and distributed to universities, research institutes,
secondary schools, public libraries, hospitals and health centers,
and to thousands of individual recipients. The Open Society Fund,
Sofia contributes to the cost of book processing and
distribution.
The distribution of the tenth shipment of books
donated by the Sabre Foundation continued over the first months of
1996. This shipment consisted of 9,000 volumes of mostly medical
books worth 0,000. An official exposition of donated medical
books was held at the Central Medical Library in Sofia in November.
Similar events were staged at medical universities and larger
hospitals in Sofia and other regional centers across the
country.
The next shipment arrived in June. It included
20,000 volumes of over 500 titles in economics, political science,
literature, environmental studies, philosophy, technical science,
law, history, computer and applied science. Some of the major
recipients included the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences, the Library of the National Information and Documentation
Center, the City Library in Plovdiv and technical universities.
In July CSD received the twelfth shipment of medical
books by the Lippincott publishing house of US The publishers
provided a list of 250 titles out of which CSD consultants selected
25. The first official exposition of Lippincott medical books was
held at the Queen Ioanna University Hospital in July. Followed
expositions at the Central Library of the Medical Academy and the
library of the "Lozenetz" clinic in Sofia. A large number of books
were donated to medical doctors and students. The distribution
process will continue into 1997.
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