Librarians
Librarians play a crucial role in developing and emerging countries, both in promoting access to information and in supporting their user communities. INASP works closely with this community to strengthen existing skills and capacity to access, use and disseminate information.
Through the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERii), INASP cooperates with over 50 publishers and aggregators to facilitate access for eligible institutions and individual researchers to their resources within our partner and network countries. For more information, see the full list of publishers cooperating in PERii. To see which publishers, resource and activities are available within your country, please go to your country page using the Country Finder on the top right section of this screen.
INASP supports networks and associations through enabling skills training workshops, and by assisting in gaining access to online and other information.
Activities and publications of particular relevance to librarians are included below.
Projects & activities
- LATINDEX Collaboration
- Bandwidth Management and Optimisation
- PERii: ICT Training
- PERii (Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information phase 2)
- PERii: Information Delivery
- Vietnam Journals Online (VJOL)
- Nepal Journals OnLine (NepJOL)
- Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL)
- Training Activities and Materials
- Online Health Information Access and Use: Intensive National-Level, Health Sector Capacity Development and Training
- PERii: Library Development
- Ongoing Programmes and Projects
- Archived Programmes and Projects
Publications
- Evaluating INASP Health 2004
- Infobrief 2 — Empowering Youth and Connecting Schools: Lessons from the SchoolNet Namibia Approach
- User Information Literacy: Case studies from university library programmes in the SCANUL-ECS region
- Report - INASP-Health Annual Reports
- Infobrief 3 — The Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in African Public Library Services
- Towards the Digital Library
- Information and Communication Technologies in Africa: A Review and Selective Annotated Bibliography 1990-2000
- Income Generation: Experiences from public library systems in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
- E-journals: Developing Country Access Survey 2002
- HIF-net at WHO 18-month report, February 2002
- Infobrief 1 — Optimising Internet Bandwidth in Developing Country Higher Education
- The Book Chain In Anglophone Africa: A survey and directory
- An Investigation into the Funding of University Libraries in Zambia
- Library Funding: Adequate financial support for African university libraries
- The Use of ICTs in African Public Library Services
- Income Generation: experiences from university libraries in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
- Public Libraries in Africa: A Report and Annotated Bibliography
- Into the Information Age
- Reader Development and Reading Promotion: Recent experiences from seven countries in Africa
- Marketing and Promotion for Agricultural and Rural Development Publications: A Practical Guide
- The Ghana Interlibrary Lending and Document Delivery Network (GILLDDNET)
- How to Accelerate your Internet: A Practical Guide to Bandwidth Management and Optimization using Open Source Software
- Infobrief 6 — Journal Access Programmes in African University Libraries
- Infobrief 7 — Open Access survey of Africa-published journals
- Getting Started in Electronic Publishing
- Report - ELIN@PERI Review: Summary
- Practical Guide to Bookselling
- Evaluating Electronic Resource Programmes and Provision: Case studies from Africa and Asia
- Report - INASP Annual Reports and Highlights
- Infobrief 4 — PERI Review 2001-2004: Executive Summary
- PERI Review 2001-2004 : Enhancing Access to Research Information in Developing Countries
- Optimising Internet Bandwidth in Developing Country Higher Education
- Infobrief 5 — Towards the Digital Library in Africa
- Building a Digital Library at the University of Zimbabwe: a Celebration of Teamwork and Collaboration