I have been teaching an intensive summer course
here at the University of Hawaii for the last three weeks, and my
students are now familiar about the Welcome to Your Library project amongst
other UK developments.
One of the students was Zhan Hunt, who has worked
in Hawaii Kai Public Library and in Ewa Beach Public and School Library,
Honolulu. Zhan has now completed her Master of Library and Information Science,
an American Library Association-accredited programme. She is extremely talented,
and has a particular interest in serving multicultural and diverse communities.
Zhan would be very interested in working in the UK for six months, starting
around October 2007. I know that such things are complicated to arrange because
of immigration and other reasons, but would you have any sense as to
whether a public library might be interested in taking her on? It would need to
be paid employment rather than a short-term unpaid placement.
Note from HC: If you are in
a position to circulate this to other relevant networks in library world please
do. Tony has sent me Zhan Hunt's resume, so if you are interested please contact
me in the first instance, so I can send you her resume and further contact
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