Chronology of Sabre Foundation Book Shipments

Calendar Year 1999

January

Ghana

Container size: 20'
Left Sabre warehouse: 1/28/99
Contained 10,439 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies and John Wiley & Sons.
Ghanaian partner organization: Ghana Book Trust

Sabre’s Colin McCullough (right) and Ghana Book Trust Executive Director Robert Amoako at GBT’s headquarters in Accra, Ghana.

February

Angola

Container size: 20'
Left Sabre warehouse: 2/12/99
Contained 10,412 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies and John Wiley & Sons.
Angolan partner organization: Angola Educational Assistance Fund

Lebanon

Container size: Less than container load
Left Sabre warehouse: 2/19/99
Contained 94 books and journals from a range of publishers, including Simon & Schuster.
Lebanese recipient: Chronic Care Center

March

Armenia*

Container size: Less than container load
Left Sabre warehouse: 3/31/99
Contained 1,938 encyclopedias and other reference books from World Book, Inc.
Armenian partner organization: United Armenia Fund

April

Ukraine*

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 4/09/99
Contained 22,295 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies.
Ukrainian partner organization: Sabre-Svitlo

Croatia

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 4/28/99
Contained 22,056 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies and World Book.
Croatian partner organization: Sabre-Zagreb

May

Bulgaria

Container size: 40'
Left warehouse: 5/25/99
Contained 20,365 medical books from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Bulgarian partner organization: Center for the Study of Democracy

Bulgaria

Container size: 40'
Left warehouse: 5/27/99
Contained 20,284 medical books from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Bulgarian partner organization: Center for the Study of Democracy

June

Bulgaria

Container size: 40'
Left warehouse: 6/04/99
Contained 21,950 medical books from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Bulgarian partner organization: Center for the Study of Democracy

U.S. Ambassador Richard M. Miles (left), Tania Vitvitsky, Sabre Director Len Baldyga and Ognian Shentov of the Center for the Study of Democracy at a Sofia news conference on Sabre book shipments to Bulgaria.

Bulgaria

Container size: 40'
Left warehouse: 6/04/99
Contained 22,390 medical books from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Bulgarian partner organization: Center for the Study of Democracy

Bulgaria

Container size: 40'
Left warehouse: 6/10/99
Contained 22,078 medical books from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Bulgarian partner organization: Center for the Study of Democracy

Bulgaria

Container size: 40'
Left warehouse: 6/11/99
Contained 13,843 medical books from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Bulgarian partner organization: Center for the Study of Democracy

South Africa

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 6/25/99
Contained 20,739 books, journals, and medical books from a range of publishers, including Kluwer Law, Simon & Schuster and McGraw-Hill Companies.
South African partner organization: Foundation for Library & Information Service Development

July

Dr. and Mrs. Dendev Badarch of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, visiting Sabre’s Cambridge offices.

Mongolia*

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 7/09/99
Contained 27,386 books and journals from a range of publishers, including Simon & Schuster, McGraw-Hill Companies, World Book and Scott Foresman.
Mongolian partner organization: Mongolian Universities Consortium

August

Uzbekistan*

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 8/03/99
Contained 25,410 books, journals, and medical books from a range of publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies and Springhouse.
Uzbek partner organization: Project on Economic Reform & Development in Central Asia (PERDCA)

Ludviga Baltina (left), Tania Vitvitsky, Raissa Pavlenko, Director, National Medical Library, and supporters at opening of Sabre-Svitlo offices in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ukraine

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 8/04/99
Contained 24,703 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies, Springhouse, Scott Foresman and World Book.
Ukrainian partner organization: Sabre-Svitlo

Russia

Container size: 40'
Left warehouse: 8/27/99
Contained 17,500 used physics books and journals.
Russian recipient: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics

September

Kosovo

Container size: Less than container load
Left Sabre warehouse: 9/2/99
Contained 420 encyclopedias, reference books and medical encyclopedias from World Book, Inc.
Kosovar recipient: International Organization for Migration

Ghana*

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 9/21/99
Contained 24,571 books and journals from a range of publishers, including John Wiley & Sons and McGraw-Hill Companies.
Ghanaian partner organization: Ghana Book Trust

Kenya

Container size: 20'
Left Sabre warehouse: 9/30/99
Contained 8,738 books and journals from a range of publishers, including John Wiley & Sons and McGraw-Hill Companies.
Kenyan partner organization: Science and Engineering Research Center

October

Croatia

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 10/22/99
Contained 21,619 medical books, journals, and other books from a range of publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and World Book.
Croatian partner organization: Sabre-Zagreb

Ghana

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 10/25/99
Contained 16,082 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies.
Ghanaian partner organization: Ghana Book Trust

Sabre warehouse staffers Bill Hantzis (left) and Rafael Morales, Jr.

November

Columbia University

Container size: Less than container load
Left Sabre warehouse: 11/3/99
Contained 2,213 books and journals from various university presses and other publishers to be shipped overseas by Columbia University Libraries Department of Gifts and Exchanges.
Partner organization: Columbia University Libraries Department of Gifts and Exchanges

Czech Republic

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 11/04/99
Contained 18,041 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies.
Czech partner organization: Center for Democracy & Free Enterprise

Somalia

Container size: 20'
Left Sabre warehouse: 11/19/99
Contained 8,654 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies.
Somalian partner organization: Amoud University

Bosnia

Container size: 20'
Left warehouse: 11/19/99
Contained 6,504 books from University of California Press and Princeton University Press.
Bosnian recipient: National & University Library of Bosnia-Herzegovina

December

Liberia

Container size: 20'
Left Sabre warehouse: 12/01/99
Contained 11,801 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies and World Book for refugee schools in Liberia
Liberian partner organization: International Rescue Committee

Guinea

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 12/02/99
Contained 19,914 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies and World Book for refugee schools in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Guinean partner organization: International Rescue Committee

Namibia*

Container size: 20'
Left Sabre warehouse: 12/13/99
Contained 13,849 books and journals from a range of publishers, including Simon & Schuster and McGraw-Hill Companies.
Namibian recipient: Oupumako Library Project (in collaboration with Boston Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, Inc.)

Guyana*

Container size: 20'
Left Sabre warehouse: 12/22/99
Contained 10,047 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies and World Book.
Guyanese partner organization: Partners of the Americas

Turkmenistan*

Container size: 40'
Left Sabre warehouse: 12/30/99
Contained 16,905 books and journals from several publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies, Simon & Schuster and World Book.
Turkmen partner organization: ACTR/ACCELS

An asterisk (*) indicates shipments, in part or in whole, designated for Peace Corps-supported projects.