Welcome Ethiopia

Following first contacts during the IFLA conference in Durban, and a short visit and workshop in December, the consortium of Ethiopian academic libraries CEARL are partnering with eIFL in strengthening their consortium and exploiting more fully access to electronic resources, as well as becoming actively involved in the eIFL-FOSS program. We give a warm welcome to Derib Erget, head of the university of Addis Ababa faculty of technology library as the eIFL country coordinator, to the CEARL chairman Ato Girma Makkonen, the director of the AA university library, and to the Ethiopian library community at large. Ethiopia already has access to a range of e-resources through INASP, and we look forward to partnering with the consortium in making the most of these and new resources. We also acknowledge with gratitude the contribution made by Heidrun Bayer and her organisation, the Engineering Capacity Building Program of the GTZ, the German Development agency, in getting us off to a good start. CEARL has just recently held a successful workshop on Greenstone (please read our May-June 2008 Newsletter)