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| Contact: | Elizabeth Lorant, Program Administrator; Mary Morrell, Program Coordinator | ||
| Officers: | Elizabeth Lorant, Program Administrator; Mary Morrell, Program Coordinator | ||
| Affiliation(s): | Information not available. | ||
| Overseas Offices: | HAS-Soros Foundation, PF 34, Budapest, 1525, Hungary, Contact: Janos Quittner. | ||
| Geographical Area: | Information not available. | ||
| General Description: | While not the Foundation's primary activity, donated books are nonetheless very important to it to meet needs of Hungarian libraries, physicians, and scientists in dire need of up-to-date American materials in their fields. | ||
| Project Description: | Destinations of Shipments: Exclusively to Hungary. Kinds of Books Distributed: Educational, English-language, reference, medicine, science, business management, textbooks. Content Selection Policy: Selection is according to need; The Soros Foundation does not interfere with recipients' selections. Dollar Value of Books Distributed: 1986: $100,000 in book purchases. 1987: $100,000 in book purchases and $1.5 million in books donated to the Soros Foundation. | ||
| Donation Sources: | New Books: Donated by publishers
Used Books: None Book Purchases: Orders for specific titles from Hungary | ||
| Citation: | American Books Donated Abroad |