I had a good long meeting with Donkoui Koura and Dounko Sanou, FAVL representative and FAVL regional coordinator in Burkina Faso.  We talked a lot about our micro-book project, and how we might move forward with the Rotary project for the multi-media center in Hounde.  Some hurdles still to overcome to get the funds unblocked, but we are very ready to go and produce some nice material for readers in the area.  We also talked a lot about managing personnel.  We have been working with rural commune councils and mayors to have them take over more responsibilities for oversight of the libraries, starting with having the librarians be employees of the mayor’s office.  We’re hoping that five librarians will shift over starting this January 2013.  It’s a work in progress… the new mayors have not been officially inaugurated, so there is no “decider” in the mayor’s office for the moment.  in one of the villages the council’s election of the new mayor was abruptly halted because of a dispute within the CDP, the majority party that controls most of the rural communes and national politics.  We lastly talked about the new library in Ouargaye.   It is now open and functioning, and the official inauguration will happen once their own political situation gets settled.