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The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory
Deep Insights
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), ix, 273 pp.
"A valuable information resource that provides a country-by-country analysis of the “book chain” in 18 English-speaking Africa countries, together with an annotated directory of the major players that make up the book chain within those countries. Four introductory essays provide overviews of bo
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Book Marketing and Promotion: A Handbook of Good Practice
Key Guides
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2001), xv, 366 pp.
"This book fills a gap in book marketing literature, as it focuses on marketing books in developing countries. It is, indeed, "a handbook on good practice". How much should you spend for your marketing budget? How to write effective copy? How much time does it take before the first book reviews appe
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Directorio de servicios de información y documentación en el Uruguay
Montevideo: Biblioteca Nacional; Centro Nacional de Documentación Científica, Técnica y Económica, 5. ed. (2001), 369 pp.
Encyclopedia of Communication and Information Vol. 2: Gay-Pol
New York et al.: Macmillan Reference, Gale Group (2001), pp. 351-713
The Electronic African Bookworm: A Web Navigator
Oxford: African Books Collective, 2nd revised ed. (2000), xii, 238 pp.
This extensive links section offers over 1,500 links, most with short descriptions, highlighting those Web sites and resources that are recommended as good starting points for African writers, scholars and the book professions in Africa. In addition it offers a substantial number of not Africa-speci
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Statistical Yearbook 1999
Paris: UNESCO; Bernan Press (1999), iv, 238 pp.
World Information Report 1997-98
Paris: UNESCO (1997), 390 pp.
Publishing and Book Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Annotated Bibliography
London: Hans Zell Publishers (1996), x, 409 pp.
"Contains over 2,200 entries covering books, serials, reference sources, reports, papers in edited collections, book-sector studies and similar documents, and periodical articles drawn from literature published in over 360 journals and magazines. Most entries have a short annotation. Supplementary v
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Manufacturing and Consuming Knowledge: African Libraries and Publishing
Development in Practice, volume 6, issue 4 (1996), pp. 293-303
"The article examines the problems facing African scholars and publishers, in the context of rapid developments in information technology and a deepening economic gulf between industrialised and Third World countries. Many of these problems, and conventional responses to them from libraries, publish
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Promoting Reading in Developing Countries
Newark, Del.: International Reading Association (1996), x, 214 pp.
"Describes the many obstacles involved with literacy promotion in the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and South America. The authors of the 10 articles in this collection share their knowledge and experience of literacy promotion in the developing world, including the challenges faced by those w
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The Intra-African Book Support Scheme and Publishing and Library Supply in Kenya and Tanzania
New Review of Information and Library Research, issue 2 (1996), pp. 179-194
"The Intra-African Book Support Scheme (IABS) was set up in 1991 to support African readers and publishers through improving the distribution of African-published materials to libraries in Africa. The recipient-request led scheme was launched by African Books Collective and Book Aid International, a
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Bibliothekarisches Handwörterbuch = Librarian's Dictionary = Nastol'nyj Slovar' Bibliotekarja
Bad Honnef: Bock und Herchen, 2., wesentlich erw. Aufl. (1995), 204 pp.
Nothing to Read? The Crisis of Document Provision in the Third World
Birmingham: International and Comparative Librarianship Group Library Association (1990), 107 pp.
"The papers from the seventh conference of the International and Comparative Librarianship Group of the UK Library Association, held in Birmingham in September 1989, which examined the book crisis, shortage of reading materials, and the funding of library services in the countries of the South, with
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