The World Health Organization has put together what’s being called a Blue Trunk Library to help doctors and medical professionals in Africa keep up to date and have access to medical materials when they are a long way away from other means of communication to other doctors (or the internet). The trunk will have over 100 books in it, and it costs around $2000 to put one together.
In order to make it easier to transport and store, the collection has been packed into a blue metal trunk fitted with two shelves on which the cardboard boxes containing the books are arranged.
March 11, 2006 at 6:45 am
sounds like a good idea.
March 29, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Perhaps this blog entry might also be of use too: “Free Software to Aid Poor Doctors”
http://maxtheitpro.blogspot.com/2006/01/free-software-to-aid-poor-doctors.html