American resource center officially opened in Symferopol

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.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, April 20, 2003, No. 16, Vol. LXXI

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