The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada has been helping deliver textbooks to a university in Mongolia in an attempt to set up a library for geology students.
The books are part of a shipment sent by AGID Canada, a registered charity affiliated with the St. John’s, Nfld.-based Association of Geoscientists for International Development. They will be used to establish a technical library in the new International Exchange Centre for Geologists and Miners (IECGM) at Mongolian Technical University (MTU) in Ulaanbaatar.
MTU trains many Mongolian earth scientists and engineers but has only one library and a limited budget for purchasing books. The library is currently accessible only to university staff and students, though the materials may soon be available to graduates and company officials as sell.
Virtually all books in the central university library are in Russian. However, the IECGM collection will give users access to English texts.
AGID Canada runs an international project that collects donated books and journals and sends them to developing countries. But the cost of shipping the books can be prohibitive, so the charity is asking companies that routinely ship supplies to developing countries to include some books with their shipments.
E-mail enquiries: owen.white@sympatico.ca. Web site: www.turnstone.ca/agid.htm
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