Aga Khan Humanities Project
AKHP Resource
Centre
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AKHP Resource Centre staff explaining the Resource
Centre's CD collection to visitors
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The Aga Khan
Humanities Project (AKHP) Resource
Centre in Dushanbe was established in 1999 with the aim of
accumulating textual material as well as films,
recordings, and software for use by AKHP’s curriculum
developers, partner teachers, researchers, and students.
These resources multiplied every year as AKHP developed
its interdisciplinary humanities course.
Since early 2004, the
AKHP Resource Centre
has been open for public use. AKHP aims to give the
scholarly community and general public the opportunity to
benefit from these collections. The new open access
Resource Centre has a reading room, library with access to
the AKHP collection and a computer room with internet access to
academic websites for members.
The AKHP
Resource Centre registered more than 1000 users in its first
four months of operation as a public library. Staff numbers
and reading space have been increased to meet users’ needs
and additional services such as weekend computer and
internet workshops are now offered.
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Resource Centre users browsing materials
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The
Resource Centre’s unique collection currently contains
over 4000 books mainly in Russian and English,
magazines, 500 videocassettes, 600 CDs and access to
electronic journals and resources for use by all
visitors. Membership of the AKHP Resource Centre is
free and open to everyone.
The AKHP
Resource Centre has received generous contributions from
the Embassies of Germany, China, and Turkey, and from
individuals in several countries. The Swiss Development
Cooperation Office in Tajikistan has provided recordings of
Tajik music. AKHP Resource Centre staff have been invited to
develop a cataloguing system for a university in
Dushanbe and a library computer database for UNICEF’s
library in Tajikistan.
Contact
Information
Rustam Mirzoshirinov
Resource Centre Coordinator
Aga Khan Humanities Project
75 Tolstoy Street
Dushanbe 734000
Tajikistan
Email:
library@akhp.org
Tel.: (992 372) 245297/245823
Fax: (992 372) 51 01 28
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