About

LATINA in Africa is a project blog for the LATINA 2012

The  project has two main aims:

1. To run a two week course at Makerere University Library (MAKLIB)  in  June 2012

• for librarians and library teachers (++)
• working in Uganda, Sudan (South), Kenya and Tanzania  (++)
• based on the LATINA approach to e-learning and digital libraries

2. To establish a permanent LATINA workshop for digital library development at MAKLIB. Activities will include

• development of new web-oriented courses for staff development and user education (students, university teachers)
• delivery of web-oriented courses (on- and off campus)
• collaborative projects

Editing

• Comments are welcome. We see blogging as a form of conversation.
  • LATINA in Africa is an edited blog.
  • Spam will be deleted.
  • Ordinary rules of civil behavior apply.
• The blog is edited by Irene Mbawaki (MAKLIB) and Tord Høivik (Oslo University College)
  • imbawaki@mulib.mak.ac.ug
  • tordhoivik@gmail.com

LATINA

LATINA is a library-based R&D-program located at the Oslo University College Learning Centre (which integratess the academic library and the audio-visual section). The letters stand for Learning And Teaching IN A digital world.

For more information, see

• LATINA Summer home page
• LATINA Commons. Links to all LATINA-related activties.

Copyright

Text written for this blog may be reused freely for non-commercial purposes if you indicate the source. See CC licence for details. The same applies to photos we have taken ourselves.

Normally we use pictures published under a CC license, however – and provide a link to the source.