Diane,
In years past we received a few foreign language newspapers (mainly from
the Middle East or Asia) for free  because our international student groups
made arrangements with their consulates to have them sent to us.  Often we
received them for the academic year only.  We didn't catalog them, but made
them available in a section of the periodicals reading room.

Kathy Woo
Acquisitions Librarian
Gleeson Library/Univ of San Francisco

At 11:12 AM 3/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is anyone aware of any foreign governments that offer U.S. libraries free
>subscriptions to newspapers from their country?
>
>A suggestion box question from one of our students states that he/she knows
>that some governments do this, but I have never heard of it.
>
>Thanks for you help.
>
>Diane Johnson
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