Singapore: Mobile Library Carts Introduced to Provide Jobs for Older Job Seekers
From Channel NewsAsia:
Having mobile library carts to provide jobs for mature workers – that’s the latest initiative by the North East Community Development Council and National Library Board (NLB).
59-year-old William Khoo is one resident in the North East district who has gone for the librarians-to-be briefings.
He now mans one of the mobile carts, which holds some 100 adult and children’s books in the four official languages.
Khoo said: “I have learned a lot from NLB – how to borrow, how to check for the book, the barcode, and everything inside, so it can be done. I can introduce something to the people, (and) share with the people. I’m really very happy.”
The mobile cart job is aimed at giving older job seekers above the age of 40 in the North East district a six-month stint as a library assistant.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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