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Lippman, M. J. – Journal of Documentation, 1993
Describes a project at the Ministry of Health Library and Documentation Centre in Malawi, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), that changed the role of the library from information collector to producer of information through the use of desktop publishing and the creation of CD-ROM databases. (LRW)
Descriptors: Databases, Desktop Publishing, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries