The NMR Library is the first Project of the Spectroteam for Romania Foundation initiated back in 1991. On medium term it is hoped that this project will become the nucleus of a national NMR information centre.

Presently we are hosting several NMR book and journal titles unique in the country. Originally, this project represented the main financial effort of our foundation. Presently, we are heavily relaying on donations, as another programme ("the National NMR Laboratory") is absorbing almost all our funding. In 1998 the infrastructure of the library was significantly developed through the "Spectroteam - British Library" project, funded by the British Embassy in Bucharest and the Know-How Fund.

The NMR Library is presently one of the most important auxiliary projects supporting the "National Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory" Programme.

Considering the present economic difficulties we are appealing for further support in maintaining the subscriptions, especially those titles unique in the country, as well as for book donations.

Fig. 1. Prof. Richard R. Ernst (ETH Zurich, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) and Dr. Ian C. P. Smith (Director General of the Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Canada), members of the Spectroteam for Romania, visiting the Spectroteam's Chemical Abstracts Collection in Bucharest (1995).

Fig. 2. Mr. Donald Banks (right), Charge d'Affaires of the Canadian Embassy, delivering a new transport of scientific books and journals for the Spectroteam for Romania Foundation in the inner yard of the Canadian Embassy in Bucharest.

Fig. 3. The heavy duty Canon photocopier donated together with other library equipment to Spectroteam for Romania, by the British Embassy in Bucharest and the the Know-How Fund in the frame of the Spectroteam-British Library Project.