2. Agenda The Building General Electricity and network Furnishing and set up Software Requirements Options and prices Management User groups Opening hours Services Networking (Associations and Consortia)
4. General Rules Top ten qualities of a good library space / Andrew McDonald 2009 Functional: Economical to operate, able to respond to changes Adaptable: Flexible space, the use of which can easily be changed Accessible: Accessible for disabled -> Place between shelves, tables, lifts Varied: with a choice of learning, research and recreation spaces for different media Interactive: well organized space which promotes contact between users and services Conducive: high-quality human space which motivates and inspires people Environmentally suitable: with appropriate conditions for users books and computers Safe and secure: For people, collections, equipment, data and building Efficient: economic in space, staffing and running costs Suitable for IT: Planning: at least 15% should be devoted to ICT Wow factor
14. Software Options One Stop: OCLC Sisis System that will be expandable to all kinds of services OCLC Sisis Catalogue Client Support in Africa Used in South Africa by Consortium / and all over the world Upload into Worldcat possible Add on of lending system possible Adaption of Active Directory possible Online Catalogue of library Constant Updates Runs on Windows servers
16. Software Options Other options Nosupport Free to use and adaptable but deep programming skills are needed: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/setup http://openlibrary.org/developers http://obiblio.sourceforge.net/ open source community: http://www.eifl.net/foss-projects
17. Management User groups Employees (Researchers, Teachers, Adminstiration .. ) Students (2-4 Weekcourses) Other
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19. Management Services Desk Service (Information and assistance) Internal lending for special occassions Further assistence for special research Fotocopy and scanning (with maximal 2h delay) Online access to studying material Copyright issues Online access to journals (licence fees)
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21. Managment The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana http://carligh.org/ Membership in CARLIGH allows institutions to have access to some of the world's most up date academic, scientific and research literature, through electronic databases. Details of these are listed on the services pages. We are always looking for new resources in areas which are relevant to our members.
