Travelling Librarian AwardAn award jointly sponsored by the ESU and The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) is granted each year to a professionally qualified librarian working in British libraries or information centres. The programme is designed to encourage US/UK contacts in the library world and the visit is for two weeks and normally takes place in the autumn.
The 2008 travel grant has been awarded to Sibylla Parkhill from HMP, Bronzefield who will travel to the US in Autumn 2008.
Washington State Library (ILS) is hosting her visits to four of our Institutional Library branches next week, I think she is in Maryland this week touring. I received the clearance yesterday and the coordination has been made. Weather permitting and the creek don't rise it should be very interesting. We are doing better at making sure the world knows that the Institutional Library Services exist and what a fine job we are doing. I should inform the Superintendent and his Associates that she is coming, he saw me on the steps taking mail down and asked how the Book Business was - I told him it was great, we had six hundred plus circulation yesterday with the reduced evening open hour, that is a good thing.
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That should be interesting, are you planning to take her out to the island?
She is being escorted by my Librarian onto the island and into the prison and to my library. Where she will get to see the afternoon rush and such. She will have visited the Western State Hospital library in the morning and have seen the patient staff interaction, she will have seen the Women's Correction Center library the day before, and will be visiting the library at the Gray's Harbor area the following day - they are covering a lot of ground.
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