FEATURE ARTICLES

The Book and the Sand: Restoring and Preserving the Ancient Desert Libraries of Mauritania (Part 2)
Graziano Krätli

Cooperative Organizations for Schools of Library and Information Science
Wallace C. Koehler

The Cost of Getting Books Read in Rural Africa: Estimates from a Survey of Library Use in Burkina Faso
Michael Kevane and Alain Joseph Sissao

The Acquisition, Management and Bibliographic Control of Government Publications in Nigerian University Libraries
C.O. Ajidahun

A History of the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (FBN)
Alma C. Ortega