Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Résumé analytique -- Introduction: Methodology and Constraints -- PART I: Secondary Textbooks -- 1. Textbook Requirements and Costs in Secondary Education -- Different Types of Secondary Education -- Variations in Secondary Textbook Requirements and Costs -- Average Textbook Prices and the Causes of Variation -- 2. Secondary Textbook Financing -- Sources of Finance for Secondary Textbooks -- Producer versus Consumer Funding -- Principles of Effective Textbook Financing -- Textbook Cost Reduction Strategies -- Textbook Rental Schemes and Textbook Revolving Funds -- The Importance of the Secondhand Textbook Market -- Piracy and Pamphlets -- Textbooks as a Percentage of Secondary Education Costs: A Case Study from Lesotho -- Textbooks as a Percentage of Secondary Education Costs: A Case Study from Uganda -- Textbook Financing in Francophone Countries -- 3. Secondary Textbooks Availability -- Textbook Availability in Uganda (2002/03) -- Textbook Availability in Lesotho (2003) -- Textbook Availability in Zambia (2002 and 2005) -- Textbook Availability in Mozambique (2000/2001) -- Notes on Textbook Availability in Other Countries -- 4. Approved Textbook Lists -- Approved Secondary Textbook Lists -- Rationale for Approved Textbook Lists -- 5. Distribution Issues for Secondary Textbooks -- Current Patterns of Secondary Textbook Distribution -- Traditional Problems with State Textbook Distribution -- Re-Creating National Bookseller Networks -- Current Secondary Textbook Distribution Issues -- 6. Secondary Textbook Authorship and Publishing -- Secondary School Textbook Publishing in Francophone Africa -- Secondary School Textbook Publishing in Anglophone Africa -- PART II: Secondary School Libraries.

7. Secondary School Libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Secondary School Library Provision -- Financing Secondary School Libraries -- Other Characteristics of Secondary School Libraries -- Linkages to National Library Systems -- School Library Management -- Distribution Issues -- School Library Policy Issues -- School Library Cost Implications -- 8. Towards an Effective Strategy for Secondary Textbooks and Libraries -- The Uganda Textbook and School Library Proposal -- Textbook Rental Schemes -- Other Forms of Textbook Cost Reductions -- A Schematic Instructional Materials Budget -- Secondary School Libraries, Reading Books and Reference Materials -- Recommendations -- Annex: Senegal Textbook Committee -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.