Scientific and Technological Information Management For Universities and Libraries: an

Active Training Environment (STIMULATE 9)

ICT and Publications Officer for:

Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI)

20 Victoria Drive

Newlands

Harare

Zimbabwe

Tel: 00263 23 381 361 E-mail: dydimus.zengenene@gmail.com

Prepared and presented By

Dydimus Zengenene (ZIMBABWE)

Contents of STIMULATE in brief

Publishing on the web

Intellectual property in the information society

Citation analysis and research perfomance

Statistics for library monitoring and evaluation

Informetrics

Open library systems, CDS/ISIS, ABCD and Greenstone digital library system

Organisation of the programme

Lessons usually close to students residents

Programme updates were on time.

The programme was well organised and the following are some of the notable points:

Organisation of the programme

The concentration of very challenging courses in the last month.

Consider distributing them evenly in the last two months

Sessions of one course so widely dispersed that follow up was disjointed

Consider completing in not so dispersed days.

Just like any other programme, there were also notable weaknesses which include the following:

Academic contents of the programme

The emerging disciplines of informetrics, scientometrics and webometrics

The economic, social and political aspects of online information.(Access vs ownership)

The course comprised excellent contents covering the most relevent scientific and technological needs of the contemporary information society, the following can be highlighted

Academic Contents of the programme

The shallow coverage of web publishingThe following might have to be included:

JavascriptingIntroduction to current softwares like joomlaLinking websites to databases

However the following can be pointed as weaknesses

Academic contents of the programme

Excellent topics given little time forcing lecturers to do more of the talking and students listerning, thereby compromising the ”Active Learning” component of the programme

Recommendations to SEATINI

Utilisation of Greenstone in the management of bulletin publications

Improve the functions of CDS/ISIS to include circulation management.

Consider migrating to ABCD a fully intergrated system

Adopt the use of open access software to cut down on costs