I can't even list all of the different activities we saw going on at the archive. We visited the map room, the reading rooms, the microfiche room, and the children's section. Have a look at the following article taking us through the theme Reflections on the public Library San Diego.
We stepped over art students making sketches of the building interior; we breezed through one of the two brilliant exhibitions curated by the archive's staff, we tip-toed through the archive's rooms for research fellows. Each of these places was full of human beings, doing-I doesn't know what. Perhaps one of them was there to look online for a job, and maybe one was researching a story from their family history.
What does it mean to honor libraries? I don't need to reinvent the wheel here; there are quotes carved into the wall all over the archive. To honor libraries is to accept democracy. It is to honor the equality of citizens-to respect and indeed create a meritocracy. It is to acknowledge the role of knowledge in society. It is to accept human potential.
Up until early 2000, high cost in education, price hikes of textbooks and references, are enormous obstacles for Indian youth and college students. Training for young citizens or the lack of it is every country's issue, affecting the economy and unemployment rate of each nation. India is one of the countries that has found a workaround and a possible solution to education issues, getting today's students the opportunity to learn, even with limited financial resources. How? Online Libraries.
We've experimented with different models of garnering funds from the community, and nothing has taken hold quite yet. Maria had a lot of questions for our great tour guide about this aspect of things-especially about how the trustees work. Of course, people have their interests for being on a archive board, but overall, supporting libraries is firmly in the sphere of civic duty.
As you might expect, the NYPL is very different now than it was when it opened. It was one of the first libraries to digitize its catalog, maintaining a wall of books filled with the old cards, for preservation purposes. We saw books being moved off-site, as the archive relocates much of its collection to a warehouse in New Jersey. The books will still be available, but they will have to be transported from the store upon request.
The tour of the NYPL is hugely inspiring; it was also both intimidating and affirming. While Maria has been working for 12 years and Maria's Libraries has been working for four years towards the completion of the archive in Busia, we continually realize that we're only just beginning. Since ML has been involved, we've spent two years working out our relationship with the government, two years settling the property rights issues on the plot of archive land, and now we've begun our negotiation process with the architects around the building plans.
We have yet to identify our local patron (if anyone reading this is the Brooke Astor of Western Kenya, email me!), and determining what is needed in the full archive collection is not even on the table yet. This process is slow and sometimes feels like a series of hurdles. And this it will continue to be, for as long as the archive is around.
We stepped over art students making sketches of the building interior; we breezed through one of the two brilliant exhibitions curated by the archive's staff, we tip-toed through the archive's rooms for research fellows. Each of these places was full of human beings, doing-I doesn't know what. Perhaps one of them was there to look online for a job, and maybe one was researching a story from their family history.
What does it mean to honor libraries? I don't need to reinvent the wheel here; there are quotes carved into the wall all over the archive. To honor libraries is to accept democracy. It is to honor the equality of citizens-to respect and indeed create a meritocracy. It is to acknowledge the role of knowledge in society. It is to accept human potential.
Up until early 2000, high cost in education, price hikes of textbooks and references, are enormous obstacles for Indian youth and college students. Training for young citizens or the lack of it is every country's issue, affecting the economy and unemployment rate of each nation. India is one of the countries that has found a workaround and a possible solution to education issues, getting today's students the opportunity to learn, even with limited financial resources. How? Online Libraries.
We've experimented with different models of garnering funds from the community, and nothing has taken hold quite yet. Maria had a lot of questions for our great tour guide about this aspect of things-especially about how the trustees work. Of course, people have their interests for being on a archive board, but overall, supporting libraries is firmly in the sphere of civic duty.
As you might expect, the NYPL is very different now than it was when it opened. It was one of the first libraries to digitize its catalog, maintaining a wall of books filled with the old cards, for preservation purposes. We saw books being moved off-site, as the archive relocates much of its collection to a warehouse in New Jersey. The books will still be available, but they will have to be transported from the store upon request.
The tour of the NYPL is hugely inspiring; it was also both intimidating and affirming. While Maria has been working for 12 years and Maria's Libraries has been working for four years towards the completion of the archive in Busia, we continually realize that we're only just beginning. Since ML has been involved, we've spent two years working out our relationship with the government, two years settling the property rights issues on the plot of archive land, and now we've begun our negotiation process with the architects around the building plans.
We have yet to identify our local patron (if anyone reading this is the Brooke Astor of Western Kenya, email me!), and determining what is needed in the full archive collection is not even on the table yet. This process is slow and sometimes feels like a series of hurdles. And this it will continue to be, for as long as the archive is around.
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