Kenya workshop 22-26 September 2008

      
The UNESCO Nairobi Office organized a basic training workshop on the Greenstone Digital Library Software at the University of Nairobi (Main Campus Library), Kenya, between 22-26 September 2008. The workshop provided training to 20 participants most of whom came from University Libraries and the National Archives in Kenya. The workshop facilitators were Mr. Amos Kujenga from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Library, Zimbabwe, and Mr. Misheck Nyaluso, University of Malawi, College of Medicine Library. Both NUST and the University of Malawi were participants in the Southern African Greenstone Support pilot project (2007-2008) and are key centres in
the ongoing Southern African Greenstone Support Network.
     

 The Seychelles workshop 19 -23 May 2008

 

The Seychelles Bureau of Standards (SBS) hosted a Greenstone Training Workshop on behalf of UNESCO from the 19 to 23 May 2008. The workshop was at held at the SBS office complex on Mahe Island, Seychelles. A total of 13 participants drawn from different organisations in Seychelles including 2 from Madagascar and Mauritius were trained in the use of Greenstone for building digital libraries and other electronic repositories. Two facilitators, Dr. E.R.T. Chiware from the University of Namibia in Namibia and Mr. A. Kujenga from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe delivered the course as a mixture of lectures and lab sessions. The official opening speeches were given by Mrs Hoareau (Secretary General for Seychelles National Commission for UNESCO), Mr. Al-Amin Yusuph (Communication and Information Programmes Officer, UNESCO Dar es Salaam Cluster Office), Mrs Quatre (SBS CEO), Mr. Mohit Kamble (Senior Standards Officer, SBS).

 

Lesotho workshop 26-29 February 2008

A four day training workshop on Greenstone Software was held at National University of Lesotho (NUL) Library, Roma Lesotho on 26th - February-29th 2008. The workshop was organized by Mapasane Lephoto from NUL Library and Lebohang Letsie of Lesotho College of Education (LCE) Library under the auspices of Lesotho Library Consortia (LELICO) and partner eIFL.net
Resource persons for this workshop were Renate Morgenstern from University of Namibia and Patricia Liebetrau from Digital Innovations South Africa (DISA), Kwazulu Natal. Out of 23 participants who attended this workshop, 21 were from local institutions and organizations while 2 came from Mauritius and Botswana.

Have a look at some more *annotated* pictures in Flickr.

 

Malawi workshop at Bunda College, 26-28 November 2007

The Malawi Greenstone workshop was held at Bunda College, University of Malawi from 26th to 28th November 2007. The workshop attracted 18 participants from various institutions in Malawi and three from Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. Renate Morgenstern from University of Namibia and Patricia Liebetrau from Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA) facilitated the workshop. They were assisted by Geoffrey Salanje of Bunda College, University of Malawi and Misheck Nyaluso of College of Medicine, University of Malawi. The workshop was officially opened by Prof. George Kanyama-Phiri, Principal of Bunda College.

Have a look at some more *annotated* pictures in Flickr.

  

Zimbabwe Workshop: 3-5 December 2007

The workshop took place as planned from the 3rd to the 5th of December. Everything went on fairly well despite the many challenges that we faced. There were a total of 19 participants from various institutions around Zimbabwe, including one from Swaziland. This represented a 90% turnout.Some of the labs had to be skipped due to the lack of time. In some cases, participants were "driven through" steps involved in some of those exercises that were skipped. Amos Kujenga drove the lectures and labs on Greenstone while Elisha Chiware handled the digitization and digital libraries sessions. Some of the time for the latter was cut in order to give more time for Greenstone activities.

Have a look at some more *annotated* pictures in Flickr and short video interviews at YouTube

Namibia advanced workshop: 1 - 5 October 2007

The sub-regional advanced training workshop was organised at the University of Namibia and taught by an international expert working with the staff of the coordination centre. The workshop brought together participants from each of the national centres and others from Namibia who had already been given basic Greenstone training by the sub-regional centre. The participants thus all came to the course with some experience and a good idea of what they knew and needed to know about Greenstone. The course was therefore able to emphasize customisation techniques needed to bring the participants' concrete projects to fruition.
Trainer: Prof. Ian Witten, Mr Repke de Vries, Mrs. Renate Morgenstern