Libraries and Information Services towards the Attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals

The United Nations Millennium declarations of 2002 set eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The papers presented in this publication endeavour to address how libraries and information professionals in East, Central and Southern Africa seek to make themselves relevant to...

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Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2008
Series:IFLA Publications
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