Did you know that the U.S. State Department helps organize and maintain libraries around the world? They are set up as Information Resource Centers at embassies and consulates, and as American Corners (partnerships between embassy Public Affairs sections and local host institutions). In Afghanistan, they’re known as Lincoln Learning Centers.
LibraryThing offers free lifetime status for these accounts, and so far more than a hundred diplomatic libraries have begun to catalog their resources using LT. Just a few of those include:
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- San Salvador, El Salvador
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Mazar-e Sharif, Herat and Kunduz, Afghanistan
- Chisinau, Moldova
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Abuja and Lagos, Nigeria
- Luanda, Angola
- Dakar, Senegal
- Dushanbe and Khujand, Tajikistan
- Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Warsaw, Poland
- Vladivostok, Russia
Other American Corner libraries getting their LT catalogs underway recently include a whole bunch in places like Khazakhstan, Serbia, and Fiji.
Just one of the many different uses being made of LibraryThing around the world!
Labels: cultural library, libraries
Very cool! Is there a comprehensive list of all the embassy libraries using LT?
Yes, is there a list?
Not a comprehensive list, no. That would take some doing, I’m afraid.
And you haven’t mentioned Ukrainian Resource Centers- they are known as Window on America Centers.
Our American Corner, which is called American Corner UMY located at Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has set up a libraryThing account (http://www.librarything.com/home/americancornerumy) but still the free want, and the problem is of course the number of books that we can put in the library is limited. Is it possible that we can get the free lifetime subscription for our Corner? What should we do then, since we really want to have the full LibraryThing account so that we can share our collections?…thank you
Yes – upgraded!
Wow this is fantastic! Thank you for granting us the full subscription for free…it would definitely be worthy for us…thank you so much Jeremy and other LibraryThing team…
Hello, could you please assist us in upgrading our American Corner subscription? Our username is AC Cebulac (Burundi). Thank you!
All set!
Hello, could you assist us in upgrading our new American Corner account? Thank you!
Sure – just email the username to info@librarything.com and we’ll get it upgraded. Thanks!