Several times in his powerful book, “The End of the Spear” Steve Saint mentions occasionally sharing their home and church in Ecuador with various critters…sometimes with quite a ruckus created.
Friday in the library at H.E.A.R.T. Institute there was no ruckus…only the steady serenading of peeps from approximately a dozen and half baby chicks and the scurrying of little feet while filing card catalog cards and typing bibliographic data into a template for more cards.
Several years ago I was asked to assist the H..E.A.R.T. (Hunger Education And Resources Training) Institute with library development. H.E.A.R.T. Institute is a simulated Third World village to train persons interested in serving as missionaries in Third World countries.
Phase 1 was weeding extremely overcrowded shelves. Many thanks to H.E.A.R.T. spring 2010 intern Morganne Betteridge for all her hard work and multiple hours spent on the weeding process and more.
Instructor’s approval for is still needed for only one course’s pulled potential discards. Then comes re-shelving what is deemed appropriate to keep, shuffling books for more even shelf distribution, then doing subject shelf labels for user friendliness.
Phase 2 begins next week when I get a list of instructor names and emails to request lists of recommended acquisitions. Then comes locating best purchase sources for instructor recommendations.
Phase 3 starts when H.E.A.R.T. Director Phil Murphy to shares the H.E.A.R.T. Library Wish List with churches as a fund raiser.
I volunteer at H.E.A.R.T. approximately one Friday a month (my library system is closed Fridays). Thanks to Diane Beam who came with me yesterday to work on library tasks. I also plan to ask a fellow librarian to come help catalog books and brainstorm ways to fine tune the library development process. Yesterday I secured a H.E.A.R.T. student with library work experience to re-shelve books after student use.
Here Dr. Jim Kiess, former medical missionary to Belize and I choose a location for his personal reserve collection for the “Public Health” course and show that spot to student Elizabeth. Both Diane (a former LPN) and I are doing some research for online resources related to the big semester project for this course.
Friday in the library at H.E.A.R.T. Institute there was no ruckus…only the steady serenading of peeps from approximately a dozen and half baby chicks and the scurrying of little feet while filing card catalog cards and typing bibliographic data into a template for more cards.
Several years ago I was asked to assist the H..E.A.R.T. (Hunger Education And Resources Training) Institute with library development. H.E.A.R.T. Institute is a simulated Third World village to train persons interested in serving as missionaries in Third World countries.
Phase 1 was weeding extremely overcrowded shelves. Many thanks to H.E.A.R.T. spring 2010 intern Morganne Betteridge for all her hard work and multiple hours spent on the weeding process and more.
Instructor’s approval for is still needed for only one course’s pulled potential discards. Then comes re-shelving what is deemed appropriate to keep, shuffling books for more even shelf distribution, then doing subject shelf labels for user friendliness.
Phase 2 begins next week when I get a list of instructor names and emails to request lists of recommended acquisitions. Then comes locating best purchase sources for instructor recommendations.
Phase 3 starts when H.E.A.R.T. Director Phil Murphy to shares the H.E.A.R.T. Library Wish List with churches as a fund raiser.
I volunteer at H.E.A.R.T. approximately one Friday a month (my library system is closed Fridays). Thanks to Diane Beam who came with me yesterday to work on library tasks. I also plan to ask a fellow librarian to come help catalog books and brainstorm ways to fine tune the library development process. Yesterday I secured a H.E.A.R.T. student with library work experience to re-shelve books after student use.
Here Dr. Jim Kiess, former medical missionary to Belize and I choose a location for his personal reserve collection for the “Public Health” course and show that spot to student Elizabeth. Both Diane (a former LPN) and I are doing some research for online resources related to the big semester project for this course.