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Main Author: Weintraub, Tamara
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ840545
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  • Sabbatical in Paradise Weintraub, Tamara Sabbatical Leaves Librarians Community Colleges Phenomenology College Libraries Cultural Literacy Cross Cultural Training Library Skills Foreign Countries A community college librarian from Southern California describes her semester-length sabbatical on the Pacific island territory of New Caledonia, and how the professional, cultural, and language experiences changed her outlook about her job back home. Working at a local library on several projects organizing and processing special collections of materials, the author returned with a new set of useful skills, a refreshed sense of purpose, and a greater understanding of the cultural and language experiences of her own library's diverse users.