Library Professor Volunteers in Guatemala

SUZANNE RAMSEY
College relations staff writer

Lisa Johnston labels books with Luis Eduardo Juarez Letona, assistant librarian at the library where she volunteered in Guatemala.

As part of her sabbatical, Lisa Johnston, professor and head of public services at Mary Helen Cochran Library, traveled to Guatemala to volunteer with Child Aid. According to its Web site, the Oregon-based group is “building brighter futures for the children of Latin American.”

Johnston was in Guatemala Feb. 28 through March 20. She worked at Nuestra Señora del Socorro, a school that trains indigenous women to be teachers in their home villages. She also was part of a public library project at Biblioteca Lic. Feliciano Fuentes Alvarado in Chicacao, Suchitepequez, Guatemala.

“It was great,” she said. “I’m most likely going back.”