Dr Busiso Chisala, Technical Advisor to MALICO VSAT on the roof of Chancellor College Library, University of Malawi

Support Documentation

Workshop training materials

All workshops used the iMark Information Management Resource Kit  "Digitization and Digital Libraries Module" from CDROM (FAO and UNESCO, 2005), also accessible here as well as regular Greenstone training exercises      

Additional training documents from the course held at Bunda College, Malawi, 2007:
 

Documentation by the Southern African Support Network

1) Main Greenstone installation on a central server with CentOS and librarians building collections from their PC's: "How I solved Remote Collection Building" (by Africa Bwamkuu, Tanzania)
Attached file:

Selected from the central Greenstone wiki at Waikato 

1) The Greenstone Installer's Guide, User's Guide, Developer's Guide and "From Paper to Collection"  How-To ( digitisation !) in the Manual section of the wiki

2) Customizing the look-and-feel of Greenstone - like changing the Home (Opening) Page or changing the appearance of the Search, Browse, Results page:
- section in the Greenstone FAQ
- illustrated How-To by Allison Zhang (November 2008)
- Easy Ways to Customize the Display of Greenstone Pages (from the wiki's General Documentation section)

3) Conversion of a Winisis database with linked fulltext documents into a Greenstone Library (Rajasekharan, K., Nafala, K.M.) (wiki's General Documentation section)

4) Digital Archiving of Audio Content - Using Winisis And Greenstone Software (UNESCO New Dehli Office, October 2008) (wiki's Manual section)
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Program management

The eIFL-FOSS ILS project coordinator is Tigran Zargaryan. The Southern African Greenstone Support Network project coordinator is Repke de Vries, and its regional coordinator is Amos Kujenga. If you have questions about eIFL-FOSS or one of its projects, please feel free to contact us using the following email addresses:

Tigran Zargaryan - tigran.zargaryan[at]eifl.net
Repke de Vries - repke.devries[at]eifl.net
Amos Kujenga - amos.kujenga[at]eifl.net

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