USAID PROGRAM

Assistance is generously provided by the American people to the CERGE-EI Library through the USAID American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) grant program.

The USAID/ASHA grant has supplied funds to support the purchase of books, monographs, journals, databases and subscriptions vital to the Library’s purpose. This helps to support CERGE-EI’s main missions, which are:

• to train future public officials, business leaders, and university faculty and researchers from the former communist countries and Central and Eastern Europe in modern economics;
• to stimulate and support academic and policy-oriented economic research by disseminating this research to corporate managers and academic economists throughout the region and the world via seminars, symposia, conferences, working papers, and other publications; and
• to facilitate the transfer of modern western standards of economic instruction and scientific work to the Czech Republic and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, with a special emphasis on educating the instructors of future generations of business leaders and voters.

The USAID program supports the CERGE-EI Library in its activities and services by:

• creating the best informational environment for the CERGE-EI Ph.D. students and other active users of the library,
• adding the current top world economic literature to the collection soon after publication, in cooperation with well-known suppliers,
• providing qualified library and information services in both Czech and English language, and
• strengthening the library’s technical capacity through Czech and world-wide acquisition of monographs, journals, and electronic journals and databases.

Consumables Financed by USAID/ASHA

Books – Print or electronic monographs are acquired according to suggestions from CERGE-EI professors, with special emphasis on economic theory, transition, macro- and micro-economics, statistics, and other related disciplines. The main textbooks for the CERGE Ph.D. program need to be purchased in a sufficient amount so that each student can have his/her own copy of the textbook for the semester. Additionally, textbooks are purchased according to each semester’s reading lists, and main statistical publications with special interest for the CEE countries, current Czech economics literature and reference books such as dictionaries and encyclopedias are also acquired.

Journals – Annual journal subscriptions as approved by the Library Committee are acquired, typically foreign and Czech economics journals and other related special journals in print or electronic copies.

Databases – Bibliographic, full-text, and statistical databases related to economics research and education are also purchased. The annual purchasing of databases is an on-going process, and the Library Committee approves any changes.

Since 2006 USAID has helped CERGE-EI Library's acquisitions!
The USAID program has:

• funded the database portal Onelog,
• funded 94 textbooks
• funded 35 journal titles.

These essential items were purchased for the CERGE-EI Library with funds from the American people, through USAID.

And thanks to the CERGE-EI Foundation, U.S.A., which administers this grant on behalf of CERGE-EI.

CERGE-EI Foundation
715 Queen Anne Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666 USA

For more information please contact:

Hana Pessrova, Head of the Library
phone: (+420) 224 217 773
e-mail: Hana.Pessrova@cerge-ei.cz