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First Southern African Greenstone Support Network workshop in SenegalFrench speaking Western African countries: Senegal as new node in the Support Network
First Southern African Greenstone Support Network workshop in KenyaOn Monday February 8th the first Southern African Greenstone Support Network Greenstone training workshop for Kenya will start in Nairobi. The workshop marks the occassion of launching the Kenya National Centre as an additional node in the Southern African Greenstone Support Network. The Library of the University of Nairobi is the driving force behind the Centre. This workshop will run until ...
BIREME presents the ABCD FOSS ILS software officiallyMore then 160 participants from at least 6 countries attended the official presentation on 3rd of December 2009 of a new FOSS product based on the ISIS-technology.
First Southern African Greenstone Support Network workshop in TanzaniaOn Monday October 26 the first Southern African Greenstone Support Network Greenstone training workshop for Tanzania will start in Dar es Salaam. The workshop marks the occassion of launching the Tanzania National Centre as an additional node in the Southern African Greenstone Support Network. Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology COSTECH is the driving force behind the ...
FOSS ILS Case Studies PublishedFor the past year, 6 libraries from Malawi to Nepal have been learning a great deal about free and open source software (FOSS) integrated library systems (ILS). Case studies of their investigations, successes, and learning points are now available. The participating pilot sites in this project range from the relatively small (50,000 to 70,000 volumes) to the very large (more than 4 million ...
Expanding the Southern African Greenstone Support NetworkThe Southern African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN) consists of many libraries developing digital collections with the aid and assistance of a number of National Centres of excellence. The Support Network would like to include more countries in and beyond the Southern African Region through the establishment of a number of new National Centres. If your library (or related organisation) is ...
eIFL Success Story wins UNESCO Information for All Programme awardeIFL award winning story “Open Source Software brings a new lease of life to libraries in Palestine”
The UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP) recently invited UNESCO Member States, NGOs and professional groups to share their stories and good practices in using information for development in all parts of the world. The stories collected provide ...
eIFL-FOSS ILS project: pilot workshop, 10-11 June 2008, Yerevan, ArmeniaTechnical leads from each of the pilot institutions for the eIFL-FOSS ILS project will gather in Yerevan, Armenia, on 10-11 June 2008 for a two-day workshop. Evergreen developer, Dan Scott, of Laurentian University in Canada and Koha developer, Henri-Damien Laurent, of BibLibre in France will provide the expert input for the event. The workshop is being hosted by the Fundamental Library of the ...
eIFL-FOSS ILS project: pilot sites selectedThe response to the Call-For-Participation for the eIFL-FOSS ILS project was heartening. Applications were received from 12 countries, representing 11 language groups, with library collections ranging in size from 10 thousand volumes to 3.5 million volumes. The following institutions were selected to conduct pilots as part of the project:
Fundamental Scientific Library of the National ...
eIFL-FOSS ILS project: call for participationeIFL-FOSS ILS is a project of the eIFL-FOSS program supporting evaluation of and migration to free and open source (FOSS) integrated library systems (ILS). It is an opportunity for librarians in eIFL member countries to engage directly with the Koha or Evergreen development communities and to contribute to that ongoing development. In particular it is an opportunity for pilot institutions, in ...
eIFL-FOSS program secures fundingCore funding for the eIFL-FOSS program has been secured from the Open Society Institute. eIFL-FOSS advocates free and open source software (FOSS) use in libraries in developing and transition countries. Funding from the Open Society Institute for this program will help eIFL.net raise awareness and understanding of FOSS across its membership, facilitate eIFL.net member engagement with FOSS ...
First workshops of the Greenstone Southern Africa Pilot ProjectOnce the nomination of the Southern African institutions which will serve as the major local network points of the project has been complete, Stefan Boddie, from DL Consulting, will be running the first series of workshops on the installation of Greenstone sofware for digital libraries. He will start his training at the sub-regional centre for the project, the ...
Call for nominations for eIFL FOSS country coordinators openEach eIFL consortium is being asked to nominate an eIFL-FOSS coordinator from their country. This coordinator will serve as the main point of contact with the larger eIFL-FOSS body, and act as a point of contact for open source software community building in the libraries in their country. The coordinator should currently work in some capacity with the library IT infrastructure in one of the ...
Launch of Greenstone Southern Africa Pilot projectThe development of digital libraries is an important concern in facilitating access, sharing and preservation of content. eIFL believes that the open source Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) software suite (www.greenstone.org), whose development and distribution are coordinated by the University of Waikato in New Zealand, provides a unique resource to promote the development of DLs ...
Library Geeks PodcastLibrary Geeks podcast which just went live covered eIFl-FOSS meeting in Cupramontana, to listen to, please go to: onebiglibrary.net/geeks.
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Program managementThe eIFL-FOSS ILS project coordinator is Tigran Zargaryan. The Southern African Greenstone Support Network project coordinator is Repke de Vries, and its regional coordinator is Amos Kujenga. If you have questions about eIFL-FOSS or one of its projects, please feel free to contact us using the following email addresses: |
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