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Sabre Foundation
The SABRE Foundation runs successful book donation programs around the world. Many university presses worked with SABRE in the 1990s on a successful book donation program to libraries in Bosnia. In addition to continuing donation programs to Africa, former Soviet states, Central Asia and elsewhere, SABRE has been involved in getting books to Afghan universities and Iraqi libraries. Read more about Sabre's work in Iraq.

2005 Hurrican Katrina Relief Programs
In the immediate aftermath of Hurrican Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast, several library and book industry relief programs have been started. Information on many of these programs can be found here: www.aaupnet.org/news/katrina.html.

2004 Tsunami Relief and Book Donations to Asia
*Books for Asia is a program of The Asia Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to the development of a peaceful, prosperous, and open Asia-Pacific region. It has fifty years of experience on the ground in Asia, and 17 offices around the region, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Thailand. Additional information on The Asia Foundation and Books for Asia, as well as guidelines on book donations, can be found at http://www.asiafoundation.org/Books/overview.html. If you are able to provide a donation, please contact Gavin Tritt, Director of Books for Asia, at: (415) 656-8990 or by email at gtritt@asiafound.org.

*Bridge to Asia is another nonprofit organization that has been providing donated English language books to universities in China and Southeast Asia for more than 15 years.

Afghanistan
In 2002, a number of initiatives were undertaken to rebuild university libraries in Afghanistan:

* Purdue University of Indiana entered into a partnership with Kabul University to assist with the rebuilding of the Afghan institution. (Read more here.) The director of Purdue University Press, Thomas Bacher, notified the leaders of this partnership project that Purdue University Press would like to donate books to the Kabul University library, and suggested that other university presses donate titles as well. Click here for Purdue University Press contact information to learn more about the Purdue/Kabul partnership.

* Finally, if presses wish to try to send books directly to Kabul University, we do have some information available, from Columbia University Press. Columbia recently donated a new edition of The Columbia Encyclopedia to replace the famously bullet-ridden copy owned by Kabul University.
Books for the university should be sent to:
Mr. Sadiq Waddid
Chief Librarian, Kabul University
c/o Mr. Martin Hadlow
UNESCO Islamabad
PO Box 2034
44000 Islamabad
PAKISTAN
Boxes should be well sealed; they should also have affixed to them a sealed envelope containing a letter indicating the contents and the purpose of the contents, and stating that the contents are not meant for resale. The letter should indicate that the final destination for the books should be Muhammad Sadiq Waddid, Librarian, Kabul University Library, Kabul, Afghanistan. (Apparently books send directly to the Library will be intercepted, hence the "neutral" address.) Requested books include: Literature, History, Technology, Science, Medicine, Languages, Media/Journalism, and Reference.