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  1. Biblioteca Pública Anastacio Villarreal, San Nicolás de Las Garza, México
  2. Central Branch, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  3. Duff Family Library (San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico; San Nicolás de Las Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico)
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Acknowledgments
  1. Aruba: ???? (Aruba Tourism Authority, Eagle)
  2. Australia: Arvind Kalia (Australian National University, Canberra)
  3. Australia: Rena McGrogan (Humanities Librarian, University of Sydney Library)
  4. Australia: David Thiele (Resident of Adelaide, South Australia)
  5. Belgium: Koen Mandox, (Ministry of the Flemish Community, Environment Inspection Section, Government of Belgium, Brussels)
  6. Belgium: Lieven de Ruyck (Resident of Belgium)
  7. Bhutan: Sherpem Sherpa (Web Editor, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, Thimphu)
  8. Bulgaria: Maya Sokolova (Reference Librarian, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad)
  9. Canada: Peggy Scott (Policy Analyst, Department of Intergovernmental and International Relations, New Brunswick)
  10. China: Huang Zhenping (Librarian, Tsinghua University Library, Beijing)
  11. Cook Islands: Cameron Scott (Communications Officer, Office of the Prime Minister, Rarotonga)
  12. Denmark: Kasper Elbjorn (Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen)
  13. Denmark: Vibeke Petersen (Librarian, Aarhus Public Library)
  14. El Salvador: Rafael Ibarra (Computer Science Department, Central American University Jose Simeon Cañas, San Salvador)
  15. Estonia: Kalle Piirküla (Resident of Hiiumaa, Estonia)
  16. Finland: Eila Knuuttila (Librarian, University of Tampere Library)
  17. Finland: Mervi Salomaa-Rauhala (Librarian, University of Tampere Library)
  18. Finland: Pirjio Rauhala (Librarian, University of Tampere Library)
  19. France: ???? (Librarian, Public Information Library, Paris)
  20. French Polynesia: Metua (Webmaster of Public Service)
  21. Germany: Timo Cernohorsky (Resident of Crailsheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg)
  22. Germany: Hella Fischer (Staff of German Embassy, Ottawa, Canada)
  23. Greece: Ioannis Trohopoulos (Head Librarian, Veria Central Public Library)
  24. Hungary: Maria Korasz (Librarian, Szeged Public Library)
  25. Iceland: Júlíana Lárusdóttir (Librarian, University of Akureyri Library)
  26. Ireland: Kenneth Sweeney (Resident of County Mayo)
  27. Israel: Dov Granek (Resident of Kochav-Yair)
  28. Malaysia: Lucas KS Wong (Teacher in a private school)
  29. Mexico: Valeria Pacheco
  30. Micronesia: Franklin Frank (Public Information Officer, Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia)
  31. Netherlands: Rachel de Meijer (Librarian, University of Amsterdam Library)
  32. New Zealand: Michael Mellor (Resident of Wellington)
  33. New Zealand: Rosalind Harwood-Stevenson (Reference Librarian, Otago University, Dunedin)
  34. Norway: Steinar Nilsen (Librarian, University of Oslo Library)
  35. Peru: Nelva Quevedo Pacheco (Reference Librarian, University of Lima Central Library)
  36. Poland: Milena Lakomska (Ministry of Environmental Protection Natural Resources and Forestry, Warsaw)
  37. Poland: Natalia Rutkowsky (Resident of Poland)
  38. Portugal: Luísa Viana de Paiva Boléo (Free-lance writer and journalist for the magazine Máxima, Lisbon)
  39. Romania: Cristian Matei (Counsellor, Embassy of Romania to Canada)
  40. Romania: Misu-Jan Manolescu (Director, International Relations Department, University of Oradea)
  41. Romania: ???? (History Department, University of Oradea)
  42. Spain: Juan Fandos (Historian of the Central African Republic, Resident of Castellón)
  43. South Africa: Fika J. van Rensburg (Librarian, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education Library, Transvaal)
  44. Sweden: Johan Carlson (Resident of Sweden)
  45. Sweden: Anders Sjöbohm (Librarian, Molndals City Library)
  46. United Kingdom: Christine Mason (Librarian, Bodley Library, Oxford University)
  47. United States of America: Jeff Urbik, (Resident of Sacramento, CA)
  48. United States of America: Sean Jessup, (Resident of Indianapolis, IN)
  49. United States of America: Hussein A. Shendy, (All Season Tours, Little Ferry, NJ)