Ghana

EIFL-FOSS Apache Solr Online Workshop 4 Apr 2011
Apache Solr is an open source search engine platform which is used by many public and commercial websites. It underpins faceted search user interface and provides various advanced features such as spelling suggestion, auto-suggest and snippet...
EIFL-FOSS Faceted Search Online Workshop 4 Apr 2011
Faceted search is becoming a contemporary and de facto search tool for content rich websites, in particular online stores and digital libraries. It is a resource discovery approach which has the propensities to enhance user experience. In this...
EIFL-FOSS CUFTS/GODOT Online Workshop 4 Apr 2011
Enabling users to discover and access e-resources, and managing expanding e-resource collections cost-effectively, are key challenges facing libraries around the world. To address these issues, EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-Licensing organised the third EIFL-...
EIFL-FOSS Shibboleth Online Workshop 4 Apr 2011
Libraries in many EIFL countries are unable to get access to commercial e-resources because they don't have static IP addresses or are accessing the internet via a public or shared IP address. Many others are unable to offer their users remote...
Draft report on the Perceptions Study 14 Mar 2011
EIFL-PLIP meeting with TNS Research International to discuss findings of the Study of Perceptions of Public Libraries in 6 African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe) in Rome, Italy.
Chief supports library training project 14 Feb 2011
The Northern Regional Library in Tamale’s popular Internet Access and Training Programme (IATP) has attracted the support of the influential Chief of Tamale, the Dakpema Naa Mohammed Dawuni, who has given the project his blessing. During a visit to...
Implementation of open content licenses 31 Jan 2011
The survey attempted to gather information from a broad spectrum of research institutions in developing and transition countries in order to get a better understanding of the current state of the implementation of open content licenses. We looked at...
Perceptions of public libraries in Africa 13 Jan 2011
EIFL to conduct major study
EIFL-PLIP, the Public Library Innovation Programme, is working with TNS Research International to survey perceptions of public libraries in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. This new and exciting undertaking will capture the...
PLIP takes off and lands safely 12 Dec 2010
Projects report on progress at Nairobi meeting After only six months, the Public Libraries Innovation Programme (PLIP) is making really good progress. This was the verdict of delegates to the second PLIP grantee meeting which took place in Nairobi,...
Institutional Repository Advocacy Seminar, Accra, Ghana 25 Oct 2010
The Database of African Theses and Dissertations Programme of the Association of African Universities is organising an International Institutional Repository Advocacy Seminar in collaboration with the Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) and Royal...
EIFL-FOSS announces Call For Participation 21 Oct 2010
The EIFL-FOSS Programme is delighted to announce a Call for Pilots and Case Studies. Deadline: 12 November 2010 The Call is designed to enable FOSS member libraries to implement FOSS pilots in any area of library operation, or to report Case...
Open Access Week 2010 begins – activities in EIFL partner countries 21 Oct 2010
  October 18 marks the start of Open Access Week 2010, as thousands of scholars, faculty, and students in nearly 90 countries worldwide participate in events to raise awareness and advance understanding of the benefits of open access. A...
Young women take the lead in computer skills 1 Sep 2010
When the Northern Regional Library in Tamale, Ghana, invited young people to apply for computer and Internet training, they feared they might not attract many women. But they did: out of the 90 graduates of the first course, 57 are women. The...
Update: EIFL-OA program and network workshops and presentations in May-June 5 Jul 2010
    A lot has been going on in EIFL-OA program and network since our last newsletter. On May 12-14 we gave a training on “HOW TO Open Repositories: Setting up an open access repository, Policies and Legal Issues, Expanding Content...
Open Access Week at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana 10 Nov 2009
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Library in Kumasi-Ghana celebrated the first ever Open Access week (October 19-23, 2009) to raise awareness on open access and the usefulness of an institutional repository. The week was an...
Free publishing and access opportunities with the Oxford Journals 14 Jul 2009
The Oxford Open initiative expands Oxford Journal's experiments with Open Access publishing models. It includes full and optional open access across over 70 journals in every subject area. For each of the Oxford Journals that offers an open access...
Institutional Repository Advocacy Seminar, Accra 5 May 2009
On March 16 – 18, 2009, the Database of African Theses and Dissertations Programme of the Association of African Universities organized an International Institutional Repository Advocacy Seminar in collaboration with the Research Libraries in Ghana...
Ghana experience in making e-journals and e-publishing widely used by local research community 26 Nov 2008
Helena Asamoah Hassan, eIFL country coordinator for Ghana, and Agatha T. Frempong discuss at the paper "Access to E-Journals and E-Publishing Initiatives in Ghana: Successes, challenges and lessons learnt" the work done so far in Ghana to promote...
Road-testing ahead: new copyright course scrutinised by librarians from eleven countries 7 Oct 2008
Associates at the Mortensen Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are road-testing the first modules of a new copyright course for librarians during September and October 2008. The course is...
Advocacy, accountability and transparency: library watchwords in Ghana 27 Feb 2008
“Advocacy, accountability and transparency helped to put our library consortium on its feet, and continue to allow us to flourish”, says Helena Asamoah-Hassan, University Librarian at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a founding...