Thursday 10/ 21 I went back for my second visit to the library's Training Department, of two individuals. The work they do reflects the differences in the way our two country's libraries relate to other libraries. In China, the Provincial Library has many responsibilities to smaller libraries in the province. The Provincial Library can be thought of as the "state" library, because Provinces in China are like the states in the US. But in China, they are public libraries as well as support organizations for other libraries in the province. In Fuzhou, there is also a public city library, and the collections and patrons and services offered are completely independent of the Provincial Library, although they do cooperate in many ways, and the city library uses the Integrated Library System, ILAS, that the Provincial library wrote. Outside of the city, there are "county" libraries, small city libraries, and rural libraries. In Fujian, all the staff of these libraries receive professional development from the Provincial library. The junior staff are required to get 50 hrs/yr of professional development, the more senior staff get 80 hrs/yr. (There is the Assistant Librarian, the Librarian (64 at FPL), the Associate Research Librarian (11 at FPL), and the Research Librarian (2) In addition, the Fujian Provincial Library (FPL), organizes courses in library science for their staff and the staff of other libraries for those who do not have the professional degree and want it. The FPL is also used as a site for "extension" programs from various schools in a variety of subjects, such as Business English. They have agreements with both the Fujian Television and Radio University and the Wuhan University to provide rooms and teachers for their courses. The Wuhan University has a correspondence course in Library Science. Their list of courses includes those from these two schools plus many other classes in continuing education in library science. Training in computer use is also taught by the Automation department. They teach courses in computers, windows 95 and 98, and the Internet to other library staff and those plus library automation to the staff of FPL. The training department also works with the other libraries to provide evaluations of the libraries to the Ministry of Culture. They have an elaborate set of criteria for scoring the different classes of libraries including research and training, management, buildings (condition, equipment), staff, holdings, and patron services (circulation, reference, open hrs.). And the Provincial Library is responsible for this evaluation submitted annually for all the libraries in the Fujian province. The training department also runs a book club with 80,000 members who donate money to purchase books they want. This 12,000 collection is housed in their old building and is represented in the library catalog with brief entries only. From Fuzhou, Brian Williams