Do something for - Iraqi libraries

Harry's Place is running a campaign this weekend to encourage readers to do something for Iraq. Taking up Harry's call to other bloggers to put up their own 'do something' posts, I draw attention to this initiative:

While almost all university libraries south of Iraqi Kurdistan were looted and/or burned, even the ones left untouched have little in them. In Kurdistan, there are hardly any books after 1980. It is the same for journals. The law library in Tikrit has a few hundred law students and 80 books in its whole library... The[y] will accept books in every field and specialty.

That said, where they think the need is greatest is in the sciences and medicine - including nursing, pharmacy and veterinary medicine and science. These books, also, can and should be in English. All agriculture related material is also vitally necessary.
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Still, I need to emphasize that the need is across all fields, though the books that would be most useful in English are in the sciences, medicine, English literature and language, agricultural sciences, and engineering simply because those fields are all taught in English.

Offers should be sent to ifla@ifla.org