STIMULATE 08 IN A NUTSHELL Achom Anne Sylvia Information Specialist PASNVA Project Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) Rwanda Mob: Contents: Program summary, suggestions to improve program organization, program strong points, best components, not so good components, recommendations to MINAGRI & Appreciation
Summary of program contents Elementary statistics for effecive library and information service management Presnetation of information in a scientific enviroment Citation analysis and applied networktheory (web of science, scorpus, scimago) Role of libraries as carriers of scientific communication www and web page design: HTML and XML Building infromation infrastructure from scratch ( developing a business plan) Internet inroduction and VUB network enviroment Study visits to selected libraries in Belgium
Program Organisation- strong points Accommodation in one students home. Lecture venues. Effective communication.
Suggestions to improve program organisation Students home i.e utensils Clear communication ; food.
Best components of the program- academic General introduction to documentary databases and the ISIS-software family.
Recommendations to MINAGRI Join consortium. Start a library wiki.
APPRECIATION My appreciation to the Flemish people and government. My gratitude to all the professors, not forgetting Alex. Finally, to all the participants of Stimulate 8. Murakoze cyane