Tues 5th October: we had a very interesting visit to a special library on campus (Illinois Fire Service Institute) [www.fsi.uiuc.edu] for firefighters . They are, I understand, the only such library in the States, and the Fire Institute is one of three in the country as well.
Do you know if we have any sort of equivalent in South Africa? Would , for example, the municipal library at the Civic Centre in town, be the library that the fire department in CT would use? What about other municipalities?
The comment from the librarian as well as one of the senior people in the research institute said that no one thought there was a need for such a library, until they had one ... I'm also trying to puzzle out which libraries in SA would cater for such a specialised need? Is there a need? Where is firefighting training carried out? The Fire Institute has training facilities which they hope to replicate across the state. (we had a quick tour and watched some training in action). Suspect that it is mostly in-house, but I don't know.
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