Hello
My name is Helen Carpenter. In the UK, I work as Project Co-ordinator of Welcome To Your Library, a project to connect public libraries with refugees and asylum seekers. The project is funded through the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and co-ordinated by the London Libraries Development Agency.
Through the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust I have been awarded a Travel Fellowship for 2007 on The Role of Public Libraries in Multicultural Relationships and will be visiting Canada, USA, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium.
The purpose of this blog is to capture and share some of my reflections on this topic while I am travelling (from June 2007).
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Nora // June 4, 2007 at 3:50 pm |
I very much look forward to reading about the structures, policies and practices in the various countries that Helen is visiting. There is no doubt that one can learn much from developments in other countries, but one also has to be careful to view them in context, ie in the cultural, economic, social and political. If nothing else, Helen’s blog will dispel the myth that libraries are ’stuffy’ places, unable or unwilling to change!