Malawi

Greenstone Training workshop in Mauritius 4 Apr 2011
UNESCO (Dar es salaam Cluster office) is organising a Greenstone training workshop at the Mauritius Institute of Health (MIH). The workshop aims to train participants to use Greenstone Digital Library software to develop online and offline academic...
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...
Building digital libraries in Africa: Local content, regional support, global visibility 15 Nov 2010
Amos Kujenga, Regional coordinator, Southern African Greenstone Support Network   “As hubs for Greenstone activities, the National Centres are doing a great job raising awareness of the role of digital libraries both locally and across...
WIPO Africa Regional Seminar on WIPO Copyright Treaty 25 Oct 2010
Dick Kawooya, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will represent eIFL at a WIPO Africa Regional Seminar on the Issues and Recent Developments of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT). Dick will speak on...
Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact workshop in Malawi 25 Oct 2010
Malawi Library and Information Consortium (MALICO), Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN), Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) and eIFL.net will organise the workshop Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact...
Institutional repository training in Malawi 25 Oct 2010
The training is scheduled for 18th to 20th March 2009. Following the training on Institutional repository in South Africa in October 2008, INASP gave a grant to Kondwani Wella, eIFL-OA country coordinator, University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of...
Debian Linux workshop, Mzuzu, Malawi 25 Oct 2010
As part of the eIFL-FOSS Skills and Tools workshop effort, the Malawi Library and Information Consortium (MALICO)has organised a 4-day workshop on the installation and use of Debian GNU/Linux servers, a key FOSS server operating system that...
Malawi ILS Pilot site visit 25 Oct 2010
eIFL-FOSS Program Manager Randy Metcalfe will visit Malawi in February to undertake a site visit of the Koha ILS pilot ongoing at Mzuzu University, Malawi. While in Mzuzu Randy will participate in an event highlighting the eIFL-FOSS program and the...
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...
Libraries participating in policy making 7 Jul 2010
Participants in policy making - libraries are stakeholders Restrictive copyright laws create legal barriers to accessing resources for education, research and personal development. This can have significant consequences for libraries in developing...
Malawi: Update on the Southern African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN) Project 13 May 2010
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...
Open Access advocacy workshop in Malawi: Maximising research quality and impact 27 Feb 2010
Iryna Kuchma & Kondwani Wella report on the Open Access Advocacy Workshop: Maximising Research Quality and Impact which took place at Kamuzu College of Nursing, University of Malawi in Lilongwe, on 29 and 30 October 2009, organised by the Malawi...
Debian GNU/Linux workshop, Mzuzu, Malawi - report 24 Aug 2009
(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...
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 training in Malawi 9 May 2009
Following the training on Institutional repository in South Africa in October 2008, INASP gave a grant to Kondwani Wella, eIFL-OA country coordinator, University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing to organise Institutional repository training in...
From Armenia to Mali: eIFL librarians contribute to international FOSS community 7 Jan 2009
“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...
Director of Malawi National Library Service wins prestigious CILIP award 29 Apr 2008
On April 15th the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals CILIP) announced Mr. Gray Nyali, Director of Malawi National Library Service as the recipient of the 2008 International Library and Information Group (ILIG) Award. ...