Philipsburg:--- Staff members of the Queen Wilhelmina Library Saba and Gertrude Johnson Library St. Eustatius participated in a workshop about Library automation at the Philipsburg Jubilee Library.
The libraries from Saba and Statia received funds from the Dutch Ministry of OCW to upgrade their libraries. Philipsburg Jubilee Library was asked to provide technical assistance. The workshop was an initiative from the recently established DCLA (Dutch Caribbean Library Association) of which Philipsburg Jubilee Library Director, Monique Alberts is the President.
Trainers were Ans Koolen (PJ Library), Margo Groenewould (Library Manager University of the NA – Curacao). School librarians from the St Maarten Academy, St. Dominic High School and Seventh Day Adventist School also participating in the workshop as well was a representative from USM.
