The Bibliotheca Alexandrina celebrates the arrival of almost 400,000 books and 20,000 journals, received from the Royal Tropical Institute— Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT) in Amsterdam. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed last October by Ismail Serageldin as Director of the BA, and Derk Vermeer as President of KIT, whereby the majority of the KIT library collection, would be reallocated at the BA.
The collection covers different fields, and is especially important because it is Europe's largest library pertaining to development issues. Most of the collection is in English, some of it in German, French and other languages. KIT will make available to the BA the digital files of relevance including the electronic catalogue of the materials concerned.
