Librarians off to the USA!

Date Released: Tue, 21 February 2012 09:00 +0200

Vuyo Gontshi, Debbie Martindale and Lucky Mosia-Xaba left on Monday for an exciting ten week study visit to the United States. They will spend the first two weeks at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During the rest of the programme, Vuyo will be hosted by Yale University, Debbie by the University of Washington at St Louis, Missouri, and Lucky by the University of Arizona in Tucson. They will gather in San Francisco for a mid-internship meeting with their mentors, with staff of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (the project funders), and with the Research Libraries Consortium (RLC) Project Director and Manager.

Last year two of the Library's Principal Librarians, Linda Cartwright and Fiona Still-Drewett, spent three months in the USA on the previous RLC study visit.  After attending the Mortenson Center programme, Linda was hosted by Duke University and Fiona by the University of Arizona where both gained valuable experience from their research intensive host institutions.