Two Toronto Public Library managers are working on a library project in Indonesia. Katherine Palmer and Dawna Rowlson are participating in the Federation of Canadian Municipalities libraries initiative in Indonesia. The project is focused on the Aceh province of Sumatra, Indonesia and specifically the public library in Sigli, roughly on the northern tip of the island.
They have been on two missions to date and leave for their next trip on January 4, 2008. There are five short missions; each mission is two to three weeks duration. In addition, there are assignments in between missions for all of the parties working on the project. A first largely fact finding mission was completed in June 2007. The focus of Mission 2 wass on sharing information and training on performance measures, community assessment, collection development and space planning. The January mission will consist of tours of libraries in Singapore and Indonesia. There will be customer service training delivered, as well as training on how to deliver library programs.
AlphaPlus kindly donated 75 titles to the Sigli library, which Dawna will be delivering in January.
