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ALBANIA

Project Name	Creating the Albanian Library Consortium Infrastructure
Grant recipient	Albanian Library Association
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to create the Albanian Libraries Consortium infrastructure. To achieve this we have planed: Promotion of consortium building in the professional publications, newspapers and TV. Creating a consortium office with the appropriate equipment which will be used for consortium activities and training programs. Holding a conference on building the consortium with the participation of Albanian librarians. training sections in Tirana and in four other cities where there are universities.
Project Period	20th January 2004 to 31 December 2004

ARMENIA

Project Name	Creation of the Electronic Library Consortium of Armenia (ELCA)
Grant recipient	Fundamental Scientific Library of the Nat. Acad. Sci. of Armenia
Short Description	Creation of ELCA to coordinate acquiring and using of electronic resources delivered by eIFL Direct Project. The project aims to develop marketing and promotion activities, to promote training of member libraries' staff as well as support activities in usage of electronic content. and to create web-site with full information on the activities, regulations, delivered services, with support hotline and feedback module, etc.
Project Period	2002-2003

AZERBAIJAN

Project Name	Establishing Azerbaijan Libraries Consortium: AzLIB eIFL Consortium
Grant recipient	Baku State University
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to provide Consortium with eIFL education and information materials, training , technical support, publishing, clarification of mission and legal aspects, fundraising, establishing communication networks.
Project Period	1st November 2003 to 1st November 2004

BELARUS

Project Name	Building of eIFL Consortium in Belarus
Grant recipient	Belarusian Library Association (BLA)
Short Description	Creation of the BELIBNET, the independant, self-sustaining not-for-profit legally-incorporated national library consortium in Belarus working in the framework of eIFL.net, the not-profit , multicountry library consortium for advocating for appropriate pricing models and technological standards in purchase and sale of electronic information resources.
Project Period	June 2002 - May 2003

BOSNIA

Project Name	Electronic Information Consortium for BiH Libraries
Grant recipient	National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to create the Electronic Information Consortium for BiH Libraries infrastructure, which ensures professional support for member libraries in selecting, subscribing and using electronic information, expanding the access to electronic information, providing member libraries with educational and consulting services, establishing and maintaining professional contacts with publishers and library consortia in other countries; looking for funding: participating in professional international projects and working together to influence the global information environment.
Project Period	from 1st January 2004 to 1st January 2006

BOSTWANA

Project Name	Consortium Building Workshop
Grant recipient	University of Bostwana Library
Short Description	The project aims to bring together information professionals, policy and decision makers to discuss critical issues pertaining to formation of a consortium chart the way forward towards establishing a consortium in Bostwana.
Project Period	July-October 2002

BULGARIA

Project Name	Bulgarian Library Network
Grant recipient	New Bulgarian University Library
Short Description	The main goal is to support the library cooperation in the country by common usage of electronic resources, technical modernization, resource (including financial) sharing, development of an interlibrary loan system, training, technological problems solving, introducing of various from of coalition, increasing the role and image of Bulgarian libraries.
Project Period	May 1rst, 2002 - February 1st, 2003

CAMBODIA

Project Name	Consortium building workshop in Phom Penh
Grant recipient	International Institute of Cambodia (IIC)
Short Description	The purpose of the grant is to set up the Cambodian eIFL Consortium. The action plan intends to focus on training the trainers, raising awareness on library consortium related issues, and promoting the wide availability of scholarly electronic resources.
Project Period	September 1st, 2004 to September 1st, 2005

CAMBODIA

Project Name	Consortium building Workshops
Grant recipient	Center for Khmer Studies
Short Description	The grant is awarded to cover local expenses related to consortium building workshops in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap which will take place 13-14 August 2003
Project Period	1st August to 1st September 2003

CAMEROON

Project Name	Start Up Program of COCUREL
Grant recipient	COCUREL (Consortium of Cameroon University and Research Libraries)
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to help COCUREL get organised in its initial phase of development, by supporting the acquisition of equipment and fittings, printing and publishig material and the attendance of one person to the eIFL General Assembly 2008
Project Period	1st August, 2008 to 1st August 1, 2009

GEORGIA

Project Name	eIFL Consortium Building
Grant recipient	Georgian Library Association
Short Description	The purpose of this grand is to provide Consortium with eIFL education and information materials, training technical support, publishing, clarification of mission and legal aspects, fundraising, establishing communication network.
Project Period	1st October 2003 to 31st December 2004

GHANA

Project Name	Start up funds for CARLIGH
Grant recipient	Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH)
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to enable CARLIGH to set up its office, develop its website, equip and furnish its office, pay initial rent for office and support visit to a successful African consortium.
Project Period	December 1, 2005 to August 31, 2006

KAZAKHSTAN

Project Name	Kazakhstan eIFL Central Asia
Grant recipient	Association Information Consortium of Libraries of Kazakhstan
Short Description	The project envisages to support the wide availability of electronic resources to library users in Kazakhstan; the main idea is to provide knowledge and resource sharing for members.
Project Period	July 9, 2002 - July 9, 2003

KOSOVA

Project Name	Inauguration of the Consortium of Electronic Library in Kosova
Grant recipient	The National and University Library of Kosova (NULK)
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to consolidate the Consortium of Electronic Library in Kosova, which offers professional support for librarians and users in using electronic information, expanding the access to electronic information, providing them through all country library educational and training services, establishing contact with vendors and publishers, participate in international project to expand information environment in Kosova.
Project Period	1st January 2004 to 1st January 2005

KYRGYZSTAN

Project Name	Creating the Kyrgyz Library Information Consortium Infrastructure
Grant recipient	Library and Information Consortium
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to create the Kyrgyz Library Consortium Infrastructure, which ensure professional support for member libraries in selecting, subscribing and using electronic information, providing access to electronic information and educational seminars. Informational Consortium will be looking for funding and coast sharing for electronic information, will participate in international projects, and will be working on establishment on the fields of creation of informational environment in Kyrgyzstan and in global informational environment.
Project Period	from 1st February 2004 to 1st February 2005

LAOS

Project Name	Setting up and running of LALIC
Grant recipient	National University of Laos (NUOL)
Short Description	The purpose of the grant is to set up the LALIC Consortium (Laos Library and Information Consortium). The action plan intends to focus on training the trainers, raising awareness on library consortium related issues, and promoting the wide availability of scholarly electronic resources.
Project Period	May 20, 2004 to January 20, 2005

LAOS

Project Name	Consortium building Workshop
Grant recipient	Central Library National University of Laos
Short Description	The grant is awarded to cover local expenses related to consortium building workshop in Vientiane, which will take place 18-19 August 2003.
Project Period	1st August to 1st September 2003

LITHUANIA

Project Name	Creating the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium Infrastructure
Grant recipient	Lithuanian Research Library Consortium
Short Description	The project seeks to create the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium Infrastructure, which ensures professional support for member libraries in selecting, subscribing and using electronic information; expanding the access of electronic information; providing member libraries with educational and consulting services; establishing and maintaining professional contacts with publishers and library consortiums in other countries; looking for funding; participating in professional international projects and working together to influence the global information environment.
Project Period	May 31, 2002 - June 30, 2004

MACEDONIA

Project Name	Establishing MEL (Macedonian E-Libraries) consortium
Grant recipient	The National and University Library “Kliment Ohridski”
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to establish MEL (Macedonian e-libraries) consortium as a network of multiple functions: coordinated activity, negotiations and representation, informative function, training, consultancy and marketing.
Project Period	1st February 2004 to 31 December 2004

MALI

Project Name	Training and resource center for COMBI
Grant recipient	Consortium Malien des Bibliothèques (COMBI)
Short Description	The purpose of the grant is to assist in the creation and functioning of a training and resource center for the use and benefit of librarians and library users of the national consortium COMBI library members.
Project Period	September 17th, 2007 to September 17th, 2008

MOLDOVA

Project Name	eIFL Direct Moldova Consortium
Grant recipient	Moldova Soros Foundation (Moldova Library Association)
Short Description	Creation of the Moldova Consortium, which stays as an efficient relational, communicational and informational system. This system will positively influence the scientific, economic, political and cultural processes in the country by utilizing new technologies, by stocking information, by proper access and distribution of the latter.
Project Period	September 2002 - September 2003

MONGOLIA

Project Name	Mongolian Consortium of Libraries
Grant recipient	Mongolian Foundation for Open Society
Short Description	To establish self-sustaining, marketable environment for scholarly institutions in using electronic information resources, and to monitoring usage of electronic content at members library.
Project Period	July - December 2002

NAMIBIA

Project Name	Library Consortium of Namibia
Grant recipient	National Library of Namibia
Short Description	The project seeks to establish the viability of the formation of a library consortium in Namibia. The first phase of the project will also provide for training workshop of accessing e-journals under the auspices of eIFL in Namibia.
Project Period	October 2002 - October 2003

NEPAL

Project Name	Capacity building for the Nepal library community to access e-resources
Grant recipient	Social Science Baha
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to build capacity in the Nepal library community regarding collaborative access and use of e-resources for education and research.
Project Period	1st August 2008 to 1st August 2009

NIGERIA

Project Name	Capacity building for Nigerian University Libraries
Grant recipient	NULIB CONSULTS (Nigerian Universities Library Consortium)
Short Description	The grant is aimed at organising a "train the trainer" programme to enable Nigerian university libraries to teach academics and students to better exploit digital information resources. The grant also covers the creation of NULIB web site.
Project Period	June 20, 2007 to December 31, 2008

RUSSIA

Project Name	National Electronic Information Consortium (NEICON)
Grant recipient	NEICON
Short Description	To support NEICON, which will be the russian participant of eIFL Direct project. The grant is envisaged to enable the access to information for library users in Russia, by integrating modern sources and technologies of information.
Project Period	December 2002 - December 2003

SENEGAL

Project Name	COBESS development activities
Grant recipient	Consortium of the Higher Educational Libraries of Senegal (COBESS)
Short Description	The purpose of this grant is to enable COBESS to promote and consolidate the development of COBESS in its settling phase.
Project Period	June 20, 2006 to April 30, 2008

SERBIA

Project Name	Building of Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition
Grant recipient	National Library of Serbia
Short Description	The project focuses on the establishment of a consortium of libraries, in order to promote the access to electronic scholarly resources. Through implementation of adaptive technologies in the library and the training of customers to use them, the grants helps to provide knowledge and resource sharing for the members.
Project Period	June 26, 2002 to June 26, 2003

SLOVAKIA

Project Name	Libnet eIFL Slovakia
Grant recipient	Slovak National Library
Short Description	The project objective is to build a consortium of libraries and support its activities. Slovak libraries have agreed to be bound by an agreement. The aim of the consortium is to enable and safeguard access to electronic content to all library users. The commitent of several libraries will benefit from group purchase, enable bargaining in negotiating favorable prices and licensing terms with publishers.
Project Period	May 14, 2002 to May 14, 2003

SLOVENIA

Project Name	COSEC - Consortium of Slovene Electronic Collections
Grant recipient	National and University Library
Short Description	Planning, organizing and setting up a fully operational national consortium of libraries in Slovenia with the goal to join the efforts in rational and cost effective acquisition of electronic resources. The consortium will be based on already achieved expertise and experience of eIFL in Slovenia, striving to join eIFL.net and other international consortia.
Project Period	August 1, 2002 to August 1, 2003

SOUTH AFRICA

Project Name	Coalition of South African Library Consortia (COSALC)
Grant recipient	Foundation Tertiary Institutions of the Northern Metropolis (FOTIM)
Short Description	The purpose of the grant is to support the South African Site License Initiative (SASLI) which will address the needs of South African libraries for electronic information, negotiate licences and prices with publishers, coordinate access, delivery and training, and to deal with other issues related to the cost-effective use of electronic information.
Project Period	January 2003 - January 2005

TAJIKISTAN

Project Name	Tajikistan Consortium of libraries
Grant recipient	Tajikistan Soros Foundation
Short Description	This project aims to estimate the conditions of e-resources usage in the libraries in Tajikistan and also cooperate with libraries and Institutions of Higher Education in using modern means and opportunities of receiving information through seminars concerning "Introduction of modern e-technologies into libraries in Tajikistan"
Project Period	August - December 2002

UKRAINE

Project Name	Consortium Building in Ukraine
Grant recipient	Ukraine Global Consortia
Short Description	The consortium will expand its activities and will include to its program access to some other electronic databases in order to satisfy the growing needs of its member organization as well as to attract new ones.
Project Period	June 2002 - June 2003

UZBEKISTAN

Project Name	Building the Uzbekistan consortium
Grant recipient	Uzbekistan Soros Foundation
Short Description	To cooperate closely with international projects and programs for expansion of access to electronic resources and organization training courses
Project Period	January 2002 - January 2003

ZIMBABWE

Project Name	Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC)
Grant recipient	Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC)
Short Description	The consortium aims to develop cooperative collection, to provide electronic services, to promote interlibrary loan/document delivery, training and development of expertise, marketing and communication.
Project Period	March 2002-February 2003