Lending Library Intern

Bright Horizons Lending Library is a unique resource available to both the Ugandan and ex-pat community. The focus and original driving force behind establishing this library is to support homeschooling families. For ex-pat families, the library offers a familiar and dearly missed opportunity to access hundreds of books. For Ugandan families, this is a brand new experience and has opened up the world of reading for pleasure and for learning in a largely oral-based culture.
Interns coming would have the opportunity to interact with children and parents from Uganda and other nations. The library membership is comprised of local Ugandan families and expatriate families, both missionaries and business/diplomatic.
Most of these families are homeschooling their children, but there are families who choose to have a membership with kids in school. There are still over 1,000 books left to catalog and add to the already 5,500+ books on the shelves. Additionally, there are games, DVDs, audiobooks, puzzles, and more that need to be cataloged. With the help of an intern, the library hours could be expanded from the current 2 afternoons a week. Story hours and reshelving of books would be part of the interns’ responsibilities as well. Because the library is in our home the intern would also experience the routines of a missionary family.