A wealth of information is available, and in some cases, freely available to developing countries. A major gap exists in some countries where library staffs do not have the requisite skills needed to provide acceess n that directly benefit their countries economucally and socially. Where services do exist, there is often a major lack of standards and guidelines for libraries regarding responsibilities and services. Much of this information is available; however, awareness that this information exists is minimal and it is often difficult to locate.
Martin Kesselman, Rutgers University Libraries, USA and Sarah Watstein, UCLA Library, USA led the work on the project on behalf of the Reference and Information Services Section. Special thanks go to Linda Hartley for her work on identifying, abstracting, and coding resources for the Toolkit and to Andrew Ruggiero for his design of the Toolkit database and website.
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