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	<title>Public Libraries and Multicultural Relationships</title>
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		<title>Mechelen, 3-5 October</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/mechelen-3-5-october/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Leiden I took the train to Mechelen in Belgium to attend a conference entitled &#8220;The multicultural library: a necessity in a creative and tolerant society.&#8221; It was organised by the Low Countries Libraries Link, comprising the Flemish Centre for Public Libraries in Belgium, The Netherlands Public Library Association and the Goethe Institut in Brussels.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hague 30 September-3 October</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/the-hague-30-september-3-october/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving in The Hague by train I noticed from the window the sign for the central library building, which is part of the massive, white, town hall complex (designed by Richard Meier).  The image of the central library was a million miles removed from the branch libraries I had been visiting in Copenhagen. I started musing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen 25-30 September</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/copenhagen-25-30-september/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d never been to Denmark before. I found Copenhagen was buzzing in the city centre when I arrived and everything felt easy to navigate and very much at human scale. Just for comparison, Denmark has a total population of about 5.5 million compared with 9 million in Sweden, but Sweden is something like 10 times as large. Copenhagen and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malmö 23-25 September</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/malmo-23-25-september/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, some background to put my perceptions from my all too brief visit to Malmö into context:

Malmö is the third largest city in Sweden with a population of about 270,000
It has the fastest growing population in Sweden and a young demographic profile
26% of the population was born in other countries
The city has made considerable efforts to reinvent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stockholm 19-23 September</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/stockholm-19-23-september/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I saw on landing at Arlanda airport was an Ethiopian Airways plane, which somehow set an appropriate tone for the second stage of my travels. As I expected, getting around was easy and straightforward. There was someone helpful on hand to assist with an unfamiliar ticket machine, the bus driver announced in Swedish and in English how long the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York 27 June- 4 July</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/07/06/new-york-27-june-4-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having visited New York before I already had a feel for its geography and wasn&#8217;t as overwhelmed as I might otherwise have been on arrival. With extremely hot and humid weather for the first day or so I decided not to rush round all the obvious &#8220;must-see&#8221; tourist sights before my scheduled library visits. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington, DC 21-26 June</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/washington-dc-21-26-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My few days in Washington, DC went by in a whirl. On arrival, I was invited to dinner at Old Ebbitt Grill, a Washington eating institution, by Linda Jordan, a librarian from Oklahoma. She signed up to the Welcome To Your Library e-list a month or two ago, and I subsequently discovered we would both be in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago 17-21 June</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/chicago-17-21-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has not all been library visits and meetings on this trip by any means and on 15 June, after arriving at O&#8217;Hare, it was good to leave cities behind for a while and take a three-hour drive out into the countryside in Wisconsin. On the following day I visited the architect Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s house, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle 11-15 June</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/seattle-11-15-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The journey from Vancouver to Seattle by train was stunning, with wonderful views across the Puget Sound as the sun went down. Seattle also packs a strong visual punch - I hadn&#8217;t realised how hilly it would be or how many different bodies of water there are, providing constantly different views and perspectives. The new Rem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver 5-11 June</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/vancouver-5-11-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was aware that Vancouver has a reputation for its spectacular setting, but I had forgotten about its reputation for rain. In the course of a few days here the sky has gone from sulky and inky purple, to deep blue with fluffy clouds and visibility from a clear, strong light that shows off the lush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa 3-5 June (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/ottawa-3-5-june-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I also met with Sarah Pollard, the Research Officer in the Multicultural Initiatives office of Libraries and Archives Canada (LAC) while I was in Ottawa. Our conversation was fascinating and very wide-ranging. LAC is considered a portfolio of Canadian Heritage, which is responsible for national policies and programmes that promote Canadian content, foster cultural participation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa 3 June to 5 June</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/ottawa-3-june-to-5-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t fail to notice, wandering around Ottawa as a first-time visitor on a Sunday afternoon, after a few days in Toronto, the number of people speaking French. First impressions otherwise are that, by comparison, there are fewer people speaking languages other than English (in the tourist core at any rate). 
But the overriding first impression was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto 30 May to 3 June</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/toronto-30-may-to-3-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard not to be overwhelmed by the sheer scale of Toronto public library system - 99 branches, 2,400 staff and 2.1million Canadian Dollars in the 2007 budget for new multilingual, French and ESL collections (about 13% of the collections budget). I needed to absorb some wider statistics to be able to get things into context. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What this is all about</title>
		<link>http://helencarpenter.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/what-this-is-all-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 15:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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