[eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Malawi

[Sander, Hannie]

Dear All
 
I have been following the past emails and I can only echo Susan's praises of the activity, enthusiasm and progress made to date.
 
I'm leaving on Friday to present a paper (Challenging Libraries In The Alternative Dissemination Of African Scholarly Communication) next week at the 28th IATUL Global Access to Science Conference in Stockholm, where the focus will also be towards Open Access and IR's.
 
Congratulations to you all. Keep the good work up!
 
Kindest regards
Hannie
 


Hannie Sander
Executive Director: Library and Information Centre
University of Johannesburg
PO Box 524
Auckland Park
JOHANNESBURG
2006

email: jsander at uj.ac.za 

Tel +27 11 559 2169

Please note change of telephone number from 1 June 2007 to +27 11 559 2169

Fax +27 11 726 7723

 

 
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From: Susan Veldsman [mailto:susan.veldsman at eifl.net]
Sent: Tue 2007/06/05 03:56 PM
To: eifloa at eifl.net
Subject: RE: [eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Malawi



Dear Lidia,

Thanks for the update! This is fantastic to see what progress are being
made!

Good luck, this is fantastic endeavor and beginning at the right place!

KIND REGARDS
SUSAN

-----Original Message-----
From: Lidia Chiotha [mailto:lchiotha at chanco.unima.mw]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:09 PM
To: susan.veldsman at eifl.net
Cc: eifloa at eifl.net
Subject: [eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Malawi


Dear Susan and all,

It has been quite interesting to read of all the OA activities taking
place in different institutions. Malawi also has taken some small steps in
that direction:

1.    The new Research Policy adopted by the University of Malawi has a
statement on Institutional Repositories.

2. The University of Malawi Postgraduate Committee at its recent meeting,
set up a subcommittee comprising Librarians and Teaching staff to work out
on logistics of a Digital Repository for theses. Margaret Ngwira former
eIFL country coordinator will see the kick off of this exercise.

3. MALICO is working in the background on Greenstone having been
influenced by Renate's good work at University of Namibia.

Thanks!

Lidia Chiotha
University Central Library
Chancellor College
P.O. Box 280, Zomba, Malawi

Phone: 265 (0) 1 524222 ext. 138
     : 265 (0) 9 333079 / 08 784889

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