Resources for PhD students at the Faculty of Medicine : which they are and how to use them

In May 2024 the library at UEM was asked if they could train the PhD students of the Faculty of Medicine. We prepared this training with a workshop for the UEM librarians in Zoom.

During the workshop we used a powerpoint presentation, "Resources for the PhD students at the Faculty of Medicine : Which they are and how to use them"

In addition to this powerpoint we looked at the training materials from Research4Life. We used and referred to their powerpoint "Additional discipline-specific resources : Health sciences". Find this powerpoint at the Librarians hub at Research4Life

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.

Students in Sweden, part two

We were happy to meet with the students and the library director here at Blekinge Institute of Technology for two days.
Backward planning, Open educational resources and Search techniques were on the agenda. And a lot of time taking pictures in the snow, which finally came towards the end of the visit to Sweden.

The students on the pictures are Acuceno Chicolena, Abnadia Raul, Amarilda Chissano, Rui Antonio, Irzelinda Mussa and Lazifa Mahuae.

Team visit to Sweden

Curious about what Horacio Zimba and Democrito Manyissa did in Sweden last week? As part of our cooperation, we have exchange on the agenda, as well as finding ways to contribute not only to library development, but also to education in library and information science at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM). And what we do, we aim to do together.

Team trapped in the House of Knowledge,
 sculpture by Jaume Plensa on campus. Photo: Maria Idebrant

The first days of the stay were spent in Borås, where the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, SSLIS, is found at the University of Borås (UB). Horacio and Democrito, together with Veronica Trépagny (team leader, SSLIS), Svante Kristensson (library director, UN, member of the team) and other UB staff had meetings and discussions around:

• library schools
• education in library and information science at SSLIS and UEM
• potential future education in library and information science
• research in library and information science at SSLIS
• research education 

Democrito Manyissa with Malin Utter and Maria Ringbo,
discussing bachelor's education.

Horacio Zimba with Daniel Kristiansson

Horacio and Democrito spent time in the university library at the UB and held meetings on competence buildning input next year (work shop discussions). Daniel Kristiansson, the UB research officer assisting in the Sida research training partnership programmes, took part in many of the meetings and contributed to the planning and delivery of the UEM stay in Borås.

Lunch meeting after research discussions, with Åsa Söderlind
(study director, research education) and Jan Nolin (research leader,
professor), as well as Maria Ringbo...
Democrito, Veronica and Horacio. Photo: Maria Idebrant

Another partner of the cooperation ins the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). So the last part of the trip was spent there. The BTH library was visited and discussions on BTH input in fields such as information literacy were held. Anna Stockman is deputy team leader and responsible for the cooperation at the BTH library.

Democrito, Claes Lennartsson, head of school at SSLIS,
and Horacio.

Workshop : Information literacy, UEM library June 5th-7th

This week we are exploring the concept of information literacy. The content of the workshop is:

• A general introduction to information literacy
• Exploration of which types of resources UEM has access to, subscribed as well as free
• Understanding the role of librarians teaching information literacy

Some documents which may be of interest are:
Recomendações da IFLA sobre a Literacia Informacional e Mediática Versão Final Parasobreviver e evoluir, 2011 (2 pages)

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, 2015 (18 pages)

The SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy, 2011 (14 pages)

Writing a good research question [2018-06-06]

How to spot fake news, IFLA, 2018 (Poster, also available in Portuguese)

Many libraries have written about the CRAAP test, a test used to evaluate sources. I found something from the Benedectine university, CRAAP. Search on the web to find more examples.

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".