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".