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Scientific and Technological Information Management For Universities and Libraries: an
Active Training Environment (STIMULATE 9)
ICT and Publications Officer for:
Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI)
20 Victoria Drive
Newlands
Harare
Zimbabwe
Tel: 00263 23 381 361 E-mail: [email protected]
Prepared and presented By
Dydimus Zengenene (ZIMBABWE)
Contents of STIMULATE in brief
Publishing on the web
Intellectual property in the information society
Citation analysis and research perfomance
Statistics for library monitoring and evaluation
Informetrics
Open library systems, CDS/ISIS, ABCD and Greenstone digital library system
Organisation of the programme
Lessons usually close to students residents
Programme updates were on time.
The programme was well organised and the following are some of the notable points:
Organisation of the programme
The concentration of very challenging courses in the last month.
Consider distributing them evenly in the last two months
Sessions of one course so widely dispersed that follow up was disjointed
Consider completing in not so dispersed days.
Just like any other programme, there were also notable weaknesses which include the following:
Academic contents of the programme
The emerging disciplines of informetrics, scientometrics and webometrics
The economic, social and political aspects of online information.(Access vs ownership)
The course comprised excellent contents covering the most relevent scientific and technological needs of the contemporary information society, the following can be highlighted
Academic Contents of the programme
The shallow coverage of web publishingThe following might have to be included:
JavascriptingIntroduction to current softwares like joomlaLinking websites to databases
However the following can be pointed as weaknesses
Academic contents of the programme
Excellent topics given little time forcing lecturers to do more of the talking and students listerning, thereby compromising the ”Active Learning” component of the programme
Recommendations to SEATINI
Utilisation of Greenstone in the management of bulletin publications
Improve the functions of CDS/ISIS to include circulation management.
Consider migrating to ABCD a fully intergrated system
Adopt the use of open access software to cut down on costs