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Public Libraries and the Millennium Development Goals

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Public libraries can make a major contribution to the achievement of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals. This paper examines actual and potential uses highlighting the importance of libraries to community development, and provides some examples, such as mobile libraries in slums and reading tents, where libraries are already assisting with Millennium Development Goals being achieved.

IFLA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4, 315-323 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0340035205061389


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