|| About the Cairo Office ||
The Library of Congress Office, Cairo, Egypt, is one of six overseas offices administered by the African/Asian Acquisitions and Overseas Operations Division of the Library. These offices acquire, catalog, preserve, and distribute library and research materials from countries where such materials are essentially unavailable through conventional acquisitions methods.
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|| Cooperative Acquisitions Program ||
The Cairo Office administers the Middle East Cooperative Acquisitions Program (MECAP) through which it acquires materials for the Library of Congress and more than forty participating academic, research, and public libraries--the majority of which are located in the United States.
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|| Exchange and Gift Program ||
The Cairo office acquires on an exchange basis publications from government and non-government agencies, scientific and cultural institutions in Egypt and the other countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Through this Exchange and Gift Program the office acquires books, serials, maps, pamphlets, videos, sound recordings etc. which are not available from commercial sources thus enriching the collections of the Library of Congress in Washington.
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|| Contact Us ||
By Electronic Mail (E-Mail):
By Mail From the United States:
Rustin Zarkar, Ph.D., Field Director
Library of Congress, Cairo Office
7700 Cairo Pl
Washington DC 20521-7700
Mail From All Other Countries:
Rustin Zarkar, Ph.D., Field Director
Library of Congress
U.S. Embassy
8 Kamal El-Din Salah Street
Garden City
Cairo, Egypt
Last Updated: May 15, 2024
