A site devoted to thoughts about books, reading, and libraries relevant to Africa mostly by Michael Kevane, co-Director of Friends of African Village Libraries, a small 501(c)(3) non-profit devoted to helping village and small community libraries in Africa. I am also an economist at Santa Clara University. Other frequent contributors are Kate Parry, FAVL-East Africa director, and Anne-Reed Angino, FAVL networker extraordinaire! For more information see the FAVL website, http://www.favl.org
Thursday, March 13, 2008
First reports in from Chalula library, Tanzania
Everything seems to be going very smoothly after the opening to regular hours in mid-January. The librarian did his training at the regional library. The library has over 3300 books and solar panels have been installed. The library had over 950 visits in January and over 2,000 visits in Feb. An MLS student from Pratt University will be making a site visit in July and will stay at Chalula for two weeks to help implement "best practices" and think about reading programs.
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