Workshop The Modern Research Library, April 16-19

Thanks everyone for a great week in Maputo. It was very rewarding for me, but also challenging, to work with you. I enclose my presentation, and I hope it will give you inspiration to develop services to both researchers and students. Keep up the good work!

Facts about Mozambique and Sweden

During the introduction, a few number of key facts were presented on Sweden and Mozambique. A couple of sources were used, but Veronica Trépagny asked the participants to give her links to the best, reliable sources for information and statistics on Mozambique.This is the assignment: share reliable links with the team leader.  We will share those here on the blog.

Quick facts

For the Human Development Index, this link to the United Nations was used by Veronica.
For quick facts about Sweden, especially this official Sweden website, was used. For Borås and West Sweden, more for tourism and visits, these two sources may be used boras.com and West Sweden.

Research Friday at the University of Borås, young visitors learn about research. Photo: University of Borås.

Ongoing workshop

We are so happy to be here in Maputo, even though the workshop note books and pens are still left behind in Nairobi (to arrive this afternoon).

This morning, the workshop was opened. The team leaders Horacio Zimba and Veronica Trépagny presented the programme and the context. Veronica gave a background on the cooperation and a presentation of the University of Borås, before the actual workshop on the modern research library was started by Svante Kristensson, the University of Borås library director.

The aim of the introduction and workshop is for us all, Eduardo Mondlane and Borås, to have a shared framwork and point of departure for the cooperation. With exchanged ideas and experience (from Mozambique and Sweden) as a point of departure, we will be able to even better stake out possibilities together.

The introduction gives a context, with a focus on the research training partnership programme. It also focuses aims and objectives of the ongoing five year cooperatin.

Here is the introductory presentation and here is the short presentation on the University of Borås.

The modern research library workshop, is based on the university library of Borås and will focus on the roles of the librarian, research support and the importance of professionalism in librarianship.

Workshop on the Modern Research Library

Svante Kristensson and Veronica Trépagny from the University of Borås will be in Maputo between Sunday 15th and Friday 20th of April. The new five year phase of the Sida sponsored cooperation between Swedish universities and the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane will be officially launched and a planning meeting is to take place. But most importantly from the point of view of the library -- Svante Kristensson, who is the university library director in Borås, Sweden, is going to hold a workshop with librarians at the central library on the theme of the modern research library. This is the team's way to, together with you, define potential ways of the library to work. And to invite you to the cooperation. The worskhop starts on Monday 16th of April and closes on Thursday 19th of April. A bit later, in June, Anna Stockman, librarian at BTH, will come for an information literacy training.

See you soon!

University of Borås library building (photo: University of Borås)

Veronica Trépagny, project coordinator/team leader

Research4Life, improved access and content

We have found some interesting news about the improved Research4Life. Please share with your colleagues and users.

From the beginning of this year, all institutions registered for any of the Research4Life programmes  (Hinari, AGORA, OARE and ARDI) get access to all portals with their credentials. New registered institutions no longer receive programme specific credentials but a general Research4Life access.
This means that any Research4Life user can now access up to 81,000 resources of Research4Life from all four programmes! On the 6th of March, the GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) will be launched as the fifth Research4Life programme. All institutions registered with the partnership will have access to information on academic legal journals, publications and databases. GOALI is hosted by the International Labour Organization (ILO). More information about the launch can be found here.

(A link to the information above and more is found here)

Let us introduce more team members!

Three more team members introduce themselves.

 Fátima

My name is Maria de Fátima Pedro Afido and I am financial manager at the Directorate of the Documentation Services/Central Library Brazão Mazula, University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM). I am staff of UEM since 2007, and I work at the Directorate of the Documentation Services since 2008. It is my first time to make part of this team. I am very happy and I thankful for the trust.

Daniel

My name is Daniel Kristiansson and I work as a research officer at the University of Borås. I am happy to work with the UEM Central Library Programme in terms of project management support. Before my job at the University of Borås I worked at Arbetsförmedlingen, the Swedish employment agency.

Demócrito

My name is Demócrito Manyissa and I am the Head of the Department of Formation and Development of Collections at the Directorate of the Documentation Services/Central Library Brazão Mazula at Eduado Mondlane University (UEM). I coordinate the activities of selection, acquisition, technical processing (cataloguing, indexing, classification, automation) of all acquired documents for the System of Libraries of the UEM. I work at the DSD since 2011. But I started working at UEM in 1993, first at the Library of the Faculty of Arts, then at the Library of the Department of Mathematics and Informatics (Faculty of Sciences) and from 2006 to 2009 I was working at EISA (Electoral Institute of Southern Africa) as the Documentation Officer at the Documentation Center for Elections and Democracy. I am looking forward to work with you all.

This is the team - a presentation of the core team

You might want to know who we are, and therefore we give a short presentation of the coordinating team below. Other team members are going to be introduced successfully - and we would like to consider all members of staff at the UEM libraries as part of our team.

 

Horacio 

My name is Horácio Zimba and I am director of Documentation Services/the Central Library at Eduardo Mondlane University (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, UEM) and I also work as a lecturer in ICT disciplines in Library and Information Science education at the School of Communication and Art (ECA). Since 2011 I coordinate the Sida sponsored Central Library Programme at UEM. I am very happy to be part of this team, and it will be a pleasure to work with our partners from Sweden and of course with all my colleagues from UEM and other involved institutions.

Anna

My name is Anna Stockman and I work as a librarian at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Sweden. At my library I work with many things: systems for information retrieval, cataloguing, teaching information literacy etc. I'm looking forward to work with you all!

Svante

My name is Svante Kristensson and since 2010 I have been working as the director of the Library at University of Borås. Before I became the director I worked as a librarian so I have been involved in many of the processes that have been established here.

Representing the University of Borås Library

Veronica

I am Veronica Trépagny and my job is to be a strategic advisor on international affairs and also to manage international cooperation projects at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, SSLIS, University of Borås. Here, I have worked both as a lecturer, masters programme manager and doctoral student in the field of library and information science. I have also lived in Kenya and worked with a number of projects in cooperation with international partners. I am very happy to manage our Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) projects and I am  looking forward to coordinate our cooperation in Mozambique.

Welcome to the Central Library Programme at UEM

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This is where the library team working within the Sida Research Training Parntership Programme cooperation between Swedish universities and the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Mozambique are going to communicate. Here, we will share what we are here for, what our aims are, what we do and how you can learn more. We want to include all librarians and library staff working within the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane libraries in our communication, but others are also welcome to follow us. 

The Sida research cooperation aims at creating an environment even more conducive for research and the formulation of problems and theories adressing Mozambique's own challenges. For any research based university, a modern research library is needed. The vision of the central library of the UEM is "to be a modern research library and center of excellence in technical and scientific information". As (also) described in the concept note for the Central Library Programme,  its  mission is further to "bring together necessary information resources for teaching and research a at Eduardo Mondlane University in particular and in the country in general".