Information Resource Center (IRC)
About American Corners
American Corners are small, American-style libraries located within a local partner organization, usually a library. American Corners are true partnerships with the local organization, because host institution personnel staff the Corners. Access to American Corners and their collections is free and open to all interested citizens of Kazakhstan.
Each American Corner features an English language collection of American fiction and reference books on U.S. government, history, culture. Corners also provide access to information about the U.S. through supervised Internet access, audio, and video recordings of American films and documentaries.
American Corners support local English instruction with an extensive collection of English teaching materials which are frequently used by local students, teachers and U.S. Peace Corps volunteers.
American Corners also offer U.S. speakers on a variety of topics and host a range of classes, clubs and activities.
For more information about American Corners in Kazakhstan please contact a Public Affairs Section of U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan or contact the Corners directly using the information provided below.
Ust-Kamenogorsk American Corner
East-Kazakhstan Oblast Universal Scientific Library
102, Ushanov Street
Tel.: (7232) 26-13-33, 26-79 -99
Fax: 26-30- 87
ust_acc@pushkinlibrary.kz
director@pushkinlibrary.kz
http://www.pushkinlibrary.kz/ACC/
Shymkent American Corner
South-Kazakhstan Branch of the Republican Scientific-Technical Library
10, Baitursynova Street
Tel: (7252) 210355, 21-29-27
info@ukntb.kz
Atyrau American Corner
Atyrau Oblast Universal Scientific Library named after G. Slanov
13, Satpaev Street
Tel.: (7122) 27-14-38
atyraulib@list.ru
Petropavlosk American Corner
North-Kazakhstan Oblast Universal Scientific Library named after S. Mukanova
25, Kazakhstan Constitution Avenue
Tel.: (7152) 46-08-92, 46-31-10
nklib@mail.ru
Uralsk American Corner
West-Kazakhstan Oblast Library for Children and Youth
166/1, Dostyk Street
Tel.: (7112) 50-44-19
kindlib_uralsk@mail.ru
Aktobe American Corner
Aktobe Branch of the Republican Scientific-Technical Library
158 A, Eset-Batyra Street
Tel.: (7132) 57-69-95, 57-69-94, 54-21-63
aktobeac@gmail.com; aontb@yandex.ru
Karaganda American Corner
Karaganda Oblast Universal Scientific Library named after N. V. Gogol
44, Erubaev Street
Tel.: (7212) 56-76-55; 49-33-75
baimurzina@GMAIL.COM; baimurzinash@mail.ru
Almaty American Corner
Central Scientific Library of the Ministry of Education and
Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
28, Shevchenko Street
Tel. (7272) 72-87-88
cnb@academset.kz
americancorner@mail.ru
The American Studies Library
In addition to the IRC, Information Service offers a collection of 3,500 fiction and nonfiction books in English on various aspects of political, social, and cultural life in the United States. This collection is open to all who are interested in information about the United States. It is located with the Legal Information System Center on the third floor of the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Almaty.
American Studies Library Address
Academy of Sciences
28 Shevchenko St.
Almaty
Phone: +7 (7272) 930037
