Phyllis Holman Weisbard speaks on libraries in India

By Katie Gilbert
Library Communications

Phyllis Holman Weisbard's trip to India began in the simplest form possible: with an e-mail. After receiving an inquiry from a librarian in Bombay requesting speakers for a women's conference, Weisbard took note and signed on. Thus began a journey throughout the Asian subcontinent that lasted almost three weeks, from May 13 to June 3.

The State Department paid for Weisbard's trip and she was shuffled around from one blisteringly hot city to another (temperatures reached 115 degrees and beyond), speaking to a variety of groups on a plethora of topics relating to women's issues, libraries and the Internet.