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Executive summary and highlights of the Annual Report for Fiscal Year:

2007 [PDF/24 KB]
2008 [PDF/23 KB]
2009 [PDF/136 KB]
2010 [PDF/112 KB]
2011 [PDF/513 KB]
2012 [PDF/336 KB]

"Quarterly Index of African Periodicals Literature Merges with AfricaBib" Quarterly Index of African Periodicals Literature Merges with AfricaBib:

"Obamabilia from Africa," Pamela Howard-Reguindin and Mary-Jane Deeb ; Library Services Journal, Vol.2, no.1, [PDF/2.1 MB] Spring 2009, pg. 22-24

"Out of Africa ... Into International Libraries: The role of the Library of Congress Nairobi Office in building Africana library collections," Pamela Howard-Reguindin. World library and information congress ; 73rd IFLA General Conference 2007. External Link [PDF/743.0 KB]

"Initiatives in Kenya for Digitizing, Indexing and Preserving Newspapers," Pamela Howard-Reguindin. World library and information congress ; 73rd IFLA General Conference 2007. External Link [PDF/239.0 KB]

"Understanding the World: the Library's Operations Overseas,"
Carol Mitchell and James Amstrong. Library of Congress Information Bulletin, Vol. 64 no. 5 ( May 2005) pg. 107-115.

"To the Ends of the Earth: Acquisition work in the Library of Congress overseas offices," Pamela Howard-Reguindin. Library Collections, Acquisition & Technical Services, Vol 28 (2004) pg. 410-419.  

Information brochure

Information brochure about the Nairobi office now available in English, French, Portuguese and Swahili.

Download your PDF copy in:

English [PDF/232 KB]
French [PDF/896 KB]
Portuguese [PDF/1095 KB]
Swahili [PDF/667 KB]

Or request a hard copy from Nairobi Office.

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Last Updated: February 13, 2013

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