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Welcome Simon Ball as new EIFL-FOSS Programme Manager

We would like to welcome our new EIFL-FOSS Programme Manager: Simon Ball. Simon begins his work in July 2010 and will be running sessions during the General Assembly to put the finishing touches to the planning for the new FOSS programme. Simon has asked that if you have any suggestions or opinions about the future of the FOSS programme and you will not be able to attend the sessions at the ...

"Sustainable Centres, Visible Greenstone Collections" - SAGSN National Centres Training and Planning Meeting

The 2010 SAGSN National Centres Training and Planning Meeting will be held July 26 - 28 in Nairobi, Kenya and is organised and hosted by the the Library of the University of Nairobi as Southern African Greenstone Support Network National Centre for Kenya. Participants are representatives of the Support Network's National Centres. Outcome of the meeting is threefold: overview per member ...

First Southern African Greenstone Support Network workshop in Nigeria

On Monday July 19th the first Southern African Greenstone Support Network Greenstone training workshop for Nigeria will start in Zaria and will be held at the "Sir Kashim Ibrahim Library", Ahmadu Bello University. The workshop marks the occassion of launching the Nigeria National Centre as an additional node in the Southern African Greenstone Support Network. The Library of the Ahmadu ...

Tanzania: Update on the Southern African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN) Project

Tanzania’s SAGSN centre is hosted by the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology and supports a network of institutions across Tanzania. Workshops were conducted in fall 2009 with participants from 20 institutions. The impact was significant because, for many participants, it was their first introduction to digital collections. In addition, Tanzania SAGSN collaborated with the ...

Malawi: Update on the Southern African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN) Project

As a centre of SAGSN, Bunda College Library has conducted workshops with over 12 institutions and supported the development of 10 digital collections. In July 2009, a workshop was conducted which resulted an institutional digitization plan model. To date, five institutions have successfully created digital collections using the plan. In addition, scanning equipment and OCR software was ...

Armenia FOSS ILS Update

Background Open Society Institute (OSI) Armenia support for the Armenian library community started in 1997, with assistance implementing ICT and computer networks in the libraries, training courses for librarians and increasing internet access. In 2001, an OSI grant supported the creation of the Armenian Libraries Union Catalogue (http://www.armunicat.am:8991/ALEPH) for 11 leading libraries, ...

Vacancy for Programme Manager eIFL-FOSS

Vacancy for Programme Manager eIFL-FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) deadline for applications 31 March, 2010. Are you passionate about technological innovation in libraries? Do you have excellent communication skills? Do you enjoy new challenges and working as part of a small, collaborative team? If so, would you be interested in spearheading the growth of the eIFL-FOSS ...

First Southern African Greenstone Support Network workshop in Senegal

French speaking Western African countries: Senegal as new node in the Support Network

First Southern African Greenstone Support Network workshop in Kenya

On 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 officially

More 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 Tanzania

On 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 Published

For 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 Network

The 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 award

eIFL 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, Armenia

Technical 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 selected

The 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 participation

eIFL-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 funding

Core 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 Project

Once 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 open

Each 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 ...

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