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ABCD Training in Tanzania https://www.facebook.com/groups/841467835944581/ The Sokoine National Agricultural Library (SNAL) in collaboration with the Innovative Agricultural Research Initiative (IAGRI) has org anised a training on ABCD Library Information Management System from 6th - 10 th July 2015. The training aimed at imparting knowledge to librarians and ICT personnel who are expected to pannel the system in their institutions. The training involved seven institutions : SUA (Morogoro), Mzumbe University (Morogoro), Jordan University College (Morogoro), College of African Wildlife management (CAWM-Mweka, Moshi), Nelson Mandela Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST, Arusha), Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP, Dodoma) and Muslim University of Morogoro. Amongst the topics covered were introduction and philosophy of ABCD, system installation and configuration of the modules, MARC-cataloging and copy/loanobjects creation, circulation modules etc. The training in

Colleagues' i would like to share with you an active abcd user community in Zimbabwe, you can follow and join on the following link; https://www.facebook.com/groups/abcdzim/ Zimbabwean libraries have been manipulating abcd and the general ISIS technologies family since the early 90s. as follows CDS/ISIS DOS (most difficult for librarians) CDS/ISIS for Windows (winisis) wwwisis jisis abcd (integrated and not for the geek) we have held several skills transfer training at varying levels such as Operational and Technical. some of us have had the opportunity to be tutored by the ISIS technologies gurus such as Prof. Egbert de Smet and Peter Hessels at Eduardo Modhlane University Maputo Mozambique a couple of years back. some of us are still actively involved in abcd skills transfer for big institutions such as the Pedagogical University (UP) Mozambique in all its 11 provinces. some of us have gone to share this experience not only in Zimbabwe but some SADC

Academic Movers 2015: In Depth with Hosea Tokwe In our most recent 2015 In-Depth Interview with  Library Journal  Movers & Shakers from academic libraries, sponsored by SAGE, we spoke with Hosea Tokwe . In 2007 Tokwe, at the time a senior library assistant at  Midlands State University  (MSU) in Kweru, Zimbabwe, was given two boxes of books bound for the Matenda Primary School in rural Zimbabwe, donated by former students. The difficulties he encountered in simply getting the books to Matenda inspired him to singlehandedly establish a library at the school—no small task, as Zimbabwe was in the midst of ongoing political and social unrest and his first forays into the rural community were met with mistrust. But Tokwe prevailed, convincing the school to convert a classroom into its first library in 2008, and—in addition to serving as chief library assistant in MSU’s special collections department—he has continued to work with outside groups to continue to fill its shelves ever si

*Disseminating Information is Power--------Scholarship is a Conversation* Zimbabwe Library Association (Zimla) Transformation Agenda: a proposal... by Raymond Chibatamoto https://www.facebook.com/groups/zimla/permalink/10153007404787291/ About the author: Ray Chibatamoto graduated from Harare Polytechnic in 1993 with a National Diploma in Library and Information Sciences. He has worked in many library and documentation setups including the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, The Southern Africa Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC), Harare City Library (formerly known as the Queen Victoria Memorial Library), The IUCN-The World Conservation Union (the world’s largest environmental NGO), and presently as a Consultant Librarian and an infopreneur. In his spare time he tends to look back on his career spoor, reflect on the future and write. In this paper I speak • from what I regard as the centre of myself; • from a point in total awareness of where my experience of the

Going against the grain:Questioning the role of archivists & librarians in the documentation and preservation of Indigenous Knowledge http://www.ajol.info/index.php/esarjo/article/view/109981