The weather
is much colder today, and I’ve been wearing merino layers to work. We even had
our lunch inside. The castle cafe had red candles lit on each table, which
created a lovely warm atmosphere. But in between all of that, I did get some work
done.
Mostly
today I was methodically searching the IJB catalogue for ployglot books listed
under hundreds of country codes. I managed to find about four more hidden
multilingual picturebooks which I’ve now ordered from the stacks. I also had an
interesting meeting with some of the language specialists who work at the IJB
tracking down a few other books which they have borrowed at the moment, and
they were able to alert me to a few other books not even on my list.
After I
finished work, I called in to the ‘Lending Library’ which is essentially
a public library open from 2pm-6pm each day. It was full of parents and
children, and lots of lovely noise. Many of the children had bike helmets on as
they have all biked here, even little 3 and 4 year olds. Anyway, while I was
there tracking down some other books I found a WHOLE SHELF of multilingual
books. It turned out many of them were bilingual, and I really am after more
than two languages, but I found probably another 4 books. So bit by bit and in
a rather haphazard manner, I am tracking these books down!
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