[eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Malawi
Sander, Hannie
jsander at uj.ac.za
Thu Jun 7 03:02:48 EEST 2007
Dear Jasper, Kondwani and Kathy
Thanks for your kind wishes. I sincerely appreciate it. I'm very fortunate to be able to build on the firm foundations laid by Melissa Hageman and our eIFL team and eIFL members and family.
Jasper and Kondwani
Will share with pleasure. The paper should also be available on the IATUL website shortly after the conference.
Kathy
Well done with your presentation to your senior management. If you have their support you're halfway there!. How about sharing this with eIFL members?
We still have some very mixed feelings about OA amongst our faculties, and lobbying takes up lots of time and energy. One of the challenges here is to shift the belief that the funding matrix still is pretty much driven by publishing in 'accredited" journals. People don't always realise that many OA journals are also accredited. We've just completed our "match and place process" (matching staff from the three merging institutions against our new organisational structure, which as you can well imagine was a full time job for the first five months of this year!!) and we've fortunately managed to secure a position of Librarian: Institutional repository!
Susan, thanks for getting the discussion going.
Kind regards
Hannie
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From: Jasper Lee Maenzanise [mailto:jmaenzanise at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wed 2007/06/06 07:53 AM
To: Kondwani Wella; Sander, Hannie
Cc: Susan Veldsman; eifloa at eifl.net; rima.kupryte at eifl.net
Subject: Re: [eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Malawi
Hannie
Here is to wishing you all the best in your presentation at the 28th IATUL Global Access to Science Conference to be held in Stockholmon whose focus is on OA and IRs. As noted by Kondwani Wella, it would be most appreciated if we could share your presentation afterwards.
Good luck and thanks.
Cheers
Jasper
Kondwani Wella <kwella at kcn.unima.mw> wrote:
Hannie,
Can we have the privilege of reading your paper, after you have
presented it of course.
Kondwani
Sander, Hannie wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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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