American resource center officially opened in Symferopol

Ukrainian Weekly, The
04-20-2003
SYMFEROPOL - U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Marie Yovanovitch on April 2
officially opened an American resource center at the Crimean State
Engineering and Pedagogical University. The center in Symferopol, called a
"Window on America," is one of seven such resource centers in Ukraine.

Window on America Centers are already open in oblast libraries in Donetsk,
Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Lviv, Odesa and Sumy.

The resource center is located in the library of the Crimean State
Engineering and Pedagogical University. It is open to the public and
contains a variety of information on the U.S. government, American culture,
literature, history, universities and businesses.

The U.S. Embassy has allocated more than $270,000 to establish the Window
on America centers in public libraries throughout Ukraine. Each of the
centers consists of five key information modules about the U.S. government,
U.S. reference materials, business, English-language teaching and
education. The libraries also receive a grant for furniture and equipment,
including a computer with Internet access, a printer, copy machine and
CD-ROM. The centers are designed to provide up-to-date information on the
United States and to augment the English-language collections of the host
libraries.

The centers are also a forum for speeches and other presentations on
American films, poetry and other cultural events that promote a better
understanding of the United States and its people.

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