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