East Greets West: 1996 Soros Interns Arrive at Library

摘要

On March 5, the Library officially welcomed 11 librarians from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as interns in the Soros Foundations-Library of Congress Librarian Intern Program. The three-month program, which is co-sponsored by the Regional Library Program of the Open Society Institute (a Budapest-based Soros Foundation), supersedes the Visiting Fellows Program, which ended in 1995 after training 38 people in three years. The new program shares its predecessor's goal of training participants to promote open information access in their home countries, as an essential feature of democratization.