EIFL: eIFL-FOSS Blog

Koha and Eprints workshop, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - report

(Guest blog post from Gantulga Lkhagva, Scientific Library of Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This workshop was part of the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative.)With support from eIFL.net, the Mongolian Libraries Consortium organized a 3-day Koha ILS and Eprints IR training workshop (14-16th, October 2009) for IT engineers and librarians in the Mongolian ...

Koha workshop, Mzuzu, Malawi - report

(Guest blog post report from Mzuzu University Library, Mzuzu, Malawi. This workshop was part of the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative.)This one day KOHA ILS workshop which took place on 16 October 2009 was a follow up to the Debian GNU/Linux workshop that was previously held on 4–7 August 2009 at the Mzuzu University. During the first workshop, participants were taught ...

eIFL-FOSS program changes

Just a brief post today to let you know about some changes in the eIFL-FOSS program. But the real news to take away is that, in effect, it is no change at all.Over the past two years we have laid a solid foundation for community driven FOSS advocacy and support here with the eIFL-FOSS network. Volunteer FOSS country coordinators now represent nearly every participating consortium across eIFL.net. ...

Debian GNU/Linux workshop, Mzuzu, Malawi - report

(Guest blog post from Mrs. Irene Sachs, Reader Services Librarian, Mzuzu University Library, Mzuzu, Malawi. This workshop was part of the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative.)The Malawi Library and Information Consortium (MALICO) organised a 4-day workshop on the installation and use of Debian GNU/Linux servers, which was held at Mzuzu University, Mzuzu, Malawi, from 4 to 7 August ...

Joomla workshop, Dakar, Senegal - report

(Guest blog post from Mr.Youssoupha Gueye of Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal. This workshop was part of the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative.)The the Consortium des Bibliothèues de l'Enseignement Supérieur du Sénégal (COBESS) organized a workshop of training on the administration and the use of content management system (CMS) Joomla from 13 till 17 July 2009 ...

Evergreen workshop, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe - report

(Guest blog post from Prince T. Choguya of the Chinhoyi University Library, Zimbabwe. This workshop was part of the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative.)The tools and skills Evergreen Library Management software was held for the first time in Zimbabwe at Chinhoyi University Library. It was the first ever workshop designed to promote the use of Evergreen Library Management Software in ...

PMB workshop, Bamako, Mali - report

(Guest blog post from Abdrahamane Anne of the Library of the Faculty of Medicine Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Mali. This workshop was part of the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative.)"Yesterday,I tried to install PMB on my office desktop, but failed. The system was telling me that a file was missing," a participant at our recent PMB workshop told me just ...

PHP and MySQL workshop, Bamako, Mali - report

(Guest blog post from Abdrahamane Anne of the Library of the Faculty of Medicine Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Mali. This is the first of the workshops to take place in the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative.) Behind the Scenes From 18 May to 22 May 2009, COMBI, the Malian Library Consortium, organized its first capacity building workshop on FOSS for librarians. ...

The first Evergreen International Conference, 2009 Athens (USA) – report

The first Evergreen International Conference was held in Athens (USA) on May 20-22, 2009. I submitted a presentation “Evergreen in Armenia” and after acceptance of the paper by the Conference Organizing Committee, eIFL sponsored my trip and Conference participation.More than 150 participants (most from USA and Canada) were attending this meeting, and according to overall ...

IST-AFRICA Conference 2009 - report

(Guest blog post from Ronald Munatsi, Coordinator, College & Research Librairies Consortium (CARLC), and Principal Librarian, Zimbabwe Parliament Library.) FOSS – Ultimate solution for libraries in Africa I had the privilege of attending this year's IST-Africa Conference in Kampala, Uganda from 4-8 May 2009 courtesy of eIFL.net. Supported by the European Commission under the ...

From Armenia to Mali: eIFL librarians contribute to international FOSS community

“Community” is a key word for free and open source software (FOSS). This is because FOSS is typically developed in an open manner. The more people participating, the stronger the community who contribute ideas, feedback and even software code. The result is better software that meets the needs of the user community. The eIFL-FOSS programme aims to raise ...

Greenstone training workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, 22-26 September 2008 - report

(Guest blog post from Amos Kujenga, National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Library, Zimbabwe)The week before last, Misheck Nyaluso and I were at the University of Nairobi where we conducted a 5-day Greenstone Workshop (from Monday 22 - Friday 26 September). The event was sponsored by UNESCO (Nairobi Cluster Office), organised by the Kenya Information Preservation Society (KIPS), and ...