1. STIMULATE 08 IN A NUTSHELL Achom Anne Sylvia Information Specialist PASNVA Project Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) Rwanda Email:annyvia@yahoo.com Mob:+25008366149 Contents: Program summary, suggestions to improve program organization, program strong points, best components, not so good components, recommendations to MINAGRI & Appreciation

2. 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

3. Program Organisation- strong points  Accommodation in one students home.  Lecture venues.  Effective communication.

4. Suggestions to improve program organisation  Students home i.e utensils  Clear communication ; food.

5. Best components of the program- academic  General introduction to documentary databases and the ISIS-software family.

6. Recommendations to MINAGRI  Join consortium.  Start a library wiki.

7. 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