Vanuatu’s new technical library
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A giant thank you to all the geeks who donated books to Vanuatu. Here’s a photo of the results:
I carried these back to Vanuatu in my checked luggage: one box (ex copying paper) taped to within an inch of its life and holding 20kg, and another 5kg or so in my backpack. The Perl Foundation kindly wrote a letter that helped me get the lot through .vu customs without having to pay any duty.
VITUS are now figuring out exactly how to manage the technical library. It looks like they’ll be handed over to the Port Vila public library, who already have a borrowing system set up, and they’re talking about having a special shelf for them to give them a bit of prominence.
Oddly, one of the problems here is that libraries have too many books… but the wrong kind. I was at the new Agricultural College in Santo last week, and saw boxes and boxes of donated books, mostly old hardcover historical romances discarded by libraries in other countries. Now anyone that knows me knows that I like a good historical romance, but really, they’re not what you want for an agricultural college. So I’d like to thank everyone for making such an effort to find appropriate books for the technical library. If yours isn’t in the picture above, it’s most likely due to baggage weight limits or because I had to choose between multiple books on the one subject.
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