BOOKS UPDATE

Dear American friends and donors:

Our English language books are slowly but surely being processed and shelved. Here is librarian Anna in the Reading Room, where we hold our English Club, with one shelve ready to go. We were excited to see it! Alina and Dima, English Club members, went with another librarian to see where more books are being catalogued. Oh how we love seeing all that American literature and those English classics! Remember, it's all done by hand here, the old card catalogue system. Most books, including our pioneer starter collection from Toledo (kudos again!), will be ready in a few weeks to be browsed and borrowed, she said. Some will be reference works, for use in the Library--the dictionairies, "how to" books, grammers. The librarians are sorting that out, and awaiting Iryna's return from her vacation. Then we hope to organize our celebration of the new collection. Other plans are on the horizon. I'm not sure of the status of a Bibliomist community partnership grant we applied for, but I'll ask Iryna when she gets back. I'll keep you posted. It's one day at a time here, Ukraine time. On behalf of the thankful beneficiaries of your gifts, Fran.