28 Jan 2003

Centre of Asian and Northern African Studies
Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia
Supplied note: "[The] Centre for Asian and North African Studies at the Library for Foreign Literature [is] one of the most important Russian public and research libraries for the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. [It] attracts students and scholars from all over country and outside Russian Federation to conduct research. The Centre houses over 300 000 volumes in the open access and the stacks of Library for Foreign Literature in the very centre Moscow, together with periodicals and a growing network of electronic resources. It is committed to: Providing services to support teaching, learning and research Developing its collections to support education now and in the future Providing a high quality learning environment Improving access to information and services Teaching information skills Supporting independent learning - nk."
[Site, apparently, exclusively in Russian - ed.]
URL http://orient.libfl.ru
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Natalia Kopelyanskaya (kopelyanskaya[use"@"]libfl.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30