I. See, for example, the proceedings of the national conference of the French association "Culture et développement" (Lille, 11 and 12 December 1998).
II. Under a project conducted between 2003 and 2004, the NGO Books for Africa (Minnesota, USA) devised, in collaboration with UNESCO, a donation project entailing the inclusion of books written and published in Africa in their batch of publications donated to libraries in East Africa. African books were identified and bought by the donor through the African Books Collective (United Kingdom). The association Culture et développement does the same thing through its programme “Banque Solidarité Lire” and under the projects of Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity developed with UNESCO.
III. Some documentation kits produced in Europe and intended for the poorest countries in Africa and Asia, composed of thick plastic cases and plastic-coated booklets surprise their target publics, who “recycle” and put these types of object to other uses which are more practical and in keeping with their context.
IV. A particularly blatant case of mismatch, mentioned and studied at the meeting “Dialogue of Partners International Workshop on Donated Books”, was that of books on sheep farming in Wales donated to groups of children of pre-primary age in Zimbabwe.
V. “The Distinctiveness of the School Text”, in National Book Policy: A Guide for Users in the Field, Paris, UNESCO Publishing, 1997.
VI. This list of project aspects is taken from Donated Books Programs: A Dialogue of Partners Handbook, Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1993. |
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