1. THE INTERNATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMME ON INFORMATION Stimulate 2 Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries Presented by: Rasha Kotb

2. Stimulate 2 Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries: an Active Training Environment This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree, who work in universities, information and documentation centers, and libraries, including of course university libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience.

3. What Is The Aim Of Stimulate 2? Provide us with a clearer view on the importance of information in general and for our environment in particular, Guide us in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on an international scale, Learn us how to store, organize, present, manage, publish information resources at personal, institutional, regional or national levels.

4. Summery for the Contents: Attending some congresses about the Virtual Library and New Scientific Library and also forum about Free Electronic Publishing. General Internet Course, publishing on www, xml ISIS-software environment Management Thesaurus The Logical Framework Approach : A Generic Project Planning Tool Also we had some visits to the Royal Library of Belgium and the New Scientific Library Leuven

5. Some Strong Points: Having the classes near to our hostel which preserves time and effort. Some of the courses are very benefictual and useful such as Publishing on WWW, Thesaurus and PCM. Getting to know new friends from different parts of the world.

6. My Achievements: Acknowledging many new database programs which were very new to me which I will try to introduce it and to use it in my work. Also acknowledging many program languages which will allow me to publish websites and make my own homepage. And of course I am having a lot of friends now from different parts of the world from whom I knew a lot of different traditions and cultures.