This handbook outlines the essential components of successful book donation projects and offers some suggestions for both recipient and donor. The directory lists organizations which can help in the various phases of book donation projects.
Libraries worldwide are no longer just collections of books.
Projects focusing on providing African libraries with electronic information technology and arrays of electronic resources for information and research are making great headway in giving African students and researchers access to the same information base enjoyed by the rest of the world. Books, however, will remain a major component of libraries collections and services. African libraries are eager to rebuild and enlarge their conventional book and journal collections, even as they are building the infrastructure for electronic information technology. Together their efforts result in the selection and collection of books which are beneficial to the recipient, the shipping of those books to the final destination, and the processing and utilization of those books by the students and faculty served by the recipient library. A library or school requesting books should be as clear and detailed as possible.