Makassar Libraries

Today, Marcelo and I visited two very different libraries - both very different.  The first one was attached to a kindergarten (on the other side of the wall) and the Moms were starting to pick up kids when we were getting ready to leave.  They were very nice and fun to chat with.  Their English is WAY better than my Indonesian!  I really appreciate them trying to speak it.  Hopefully they appreciate my attempt at their language.  They loved seeing pictures of my son and husband.

The second library was larger, had more books and had some sort of software they used to list all of the books in the library.

We spend a lot of time this afternoon evaluating everything we've learned from the three departments: File/Archives, Library, and Data Processing.  We have more questions to better understand the current environment and processes, but are making progress. Hopefully by the end of the week, we will know which areas we can help and what the priorities are.

Tonight, it was Nitu's (a member of my 10-person team) birthday.  She is from India.  We threw her a surprise birthday party which was super fun!

In addition to all of our projects, we are trying to do some sight-seeing on the weekends.  It is hard to determine what we should do as there are so many things and we are only here for a limited time.  Maybe I will need to come back sometime. . . . . . I know I will not be able to do everything I would like to do.  This is tough for me!

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