Facilitating meetings and courses online

Now you can register for a free online tutorial, designed to help with facilitation of online courses and events. INASP* created this tutorial last year and it consists of four units which you take in your own pace. The expected time to complete the entire tutorial is twelve hours.

Read more about the tutorial in the INASP blog, or go directly to INASP Moodle where you can create an account just by clicking on Log in. Once you have an account you can register for the tutorial. 

* As many of you know, INASP is a NGO that "aims to strengthen the capacity of individuals and institutions to produce, share and use research and knowledge in Africa, Asia and Latin America".

Learn more about Law and Social sciences in Research4Life

GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) is a Research4Life program. On Thursday March 25th you can participate in a webinar where you can learn more about GOALI.

• Which resources you can find
• How to effectively use the search functions

You have to register for this free webinar, which will be recorded and published in the Research4Life training portal.

Use this link to find more information about the webinar.

https://www.research4life.org/news/goali-webinar-law-and-social-sciences-in-research4life/

Keep up with news and changes

So much is happening in the library world. How can we keep up with all the news and changes? 

You can subscribe to newsletters or follow blogs from organisations such as INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications), Research4Life and eifl (Electronic Information For Libraries).

Using Facebook or Twitter is another way to keep up with what's new. 

@inasp.info 

@R4Lpartnership 

@eIFL.net

Do you have any other ideas of how to keep up with what's new? Feel free to share them with us in the team working with the Central Library Programme and then we can publish your ideas on the blog.

Research4Life adds presentations in Portuguese

These Powerpoint presentations can be used by librarians in Research4Life training activities with library users.

Most of the presentations are available in English and Spanish, but there are some presentations in Portuguese as well:

Discipline-specific browsing and searching:

• Hinari: Research for health
• Citation databases

Additional discipline-specific resources:

• Health sciences
• Health and evidence-based medicine
• Interdisciplinary resources

"This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). The logos used in the course are exempt. This CC BY-SA 4.0 license allows trainers to modify and adapt the material for specific training purposes at the host institution to meet the group’s specific needs."

https://www.research4life.org/training/resources-for-information-specialists/presentations/

Materials from Information literacy workshop at UEM - October 2019

In October, Anna Stockman from Blekinge Institute of Technology facilitated two workshops for library staff. The participants from UEM came to the first workshop which was a follow up of the 2018 information literacy workshop.

The second workshop, "Introduction to information literacy" was organized for participants from libraries outside UEM.

The presentations used during the workshops have been combined into one single PDF-document.

Course on how to use Research4Life. APPLY NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 5th!

Interesting possibility to learn more about Research4Life.

"Research4Life is [...] launching a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) that will equip existing and future users of the Research4Life programs (Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI) with the knowledge and skills required to access and use the information efficiently. The call for applications to attend the MOOC is now open, and the course will take place between 11 November to 15 December 2019."

"Participants are expected to spend on average six to eight hours per week on lessons and activities, such as contributing to discussion forums and webinars."

Read more about the course.

Study visits

For three days I was given the opportunity to visit libraries at universities and institutions in Maputo, Matola and Chibotu. I would like to thank all the people who made this possible! It has been some very interesting and important days.

Here are just a few photos from the visits.

Two workshops on information literacy

Last week, a follow up workshop on information literacy for UEM library staff took place in the computer lab of the library. The participants were coming from several UEM libraries in Maputo.

It was a follow up of a workshop held in 2018 and it included different aspects of information literacy. An important part of the training is to learn how librarians can help library users to get to a higher level of information literacy in an academic context.

Examples from the content are: information retrieval, search techniques (like Boolean searches), evaluation of results, scientific articles, references, citations and diagnostic tests.

Materials from the workshop will be posted soon in this blog.

Participants from the UEM Library

October 28th-29th a workshop was organized for librarians from other institutions of higher education as well as government agencies. The content was similar to the content of the workshop for UEM librarians, but with more focus on the databases made available in Mozambique. Which are they, what do they include and how do you search those databases in an efficient way?

In addition to this, Dr Horacio Zimba gave a presentation of the research library consortium of Mozambique.

Some of the librarians from other universities and institutes.

Annual Planning Meeting

The partners within the Sida supported cooperation between Universidade Eduardo Mondale and the Swedish universities meet up for administrative meetings twice a year. This week, Principal Investigator Dr. Horacio Zimba from the Central Library and Deupy Team Leader Anna Stockman from the Blekinge Institute of Technology Library share the plans for the next year with the UEM management, Sida, the Swedish Embassy, the coordinators from ISP (the International Science Programme at Uppsala University) and all partners at UEM and Swedish universities.

Our plans for next year, when it comes to capacity building where Swedish partners are involved, are to: continue the training programme consisting of workshops and short courses in the areas of customer service/users (step 2), information literacy, academic writing and e-resources; to continue supporting the six masters's students to the defence of their thesis; and to start the process of selecting a candidate for PhD studies in library and information science at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås.

Deputy Team Leader Anna Stockman and Principal Investigator Horacio Zimba.
Picture taken by Therese Rantakokko, ISP

We have planned for a long list of other activities as well, that we will inform you about shortly.

Anna holds workshops with librarians from Maputo and from around the country this month as well.  Next month, the focus will be on the Master's students, when professor Elena Maceviciute and lecturer Fershta Westin will be in the country.

Referencing guides

As a librarian supporting the research process, or the learning processes of the students, good academic writing and anti plagiarism guides are very useful. Both BTH and the University of Borås have open guides in English that may be of use for you, if you want to refresh your own knowledge and if you want to share with students discussing these issues.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) provides an online Handbook on academic integrity including different aspects of academic writing.

Click on the pictures to come to the respective gudes. 

University of Borås Anti-Plagiarism Guide

Blekinge Institute of Technology Writing Guide

The above guides have been developed together with university partners: Jönköping University, Umeå University, Linnaeus University and Kristianstad University.