Nepal Workshops

Below are details of some recent workshops run by INASP and local partners

"i-connect 2008 National Workshop on Vision Science Resource Centre Collaboration" Lumbini Eye Institute, Shree Rana Ambika Eye Hospital, Siddharthanagar, 10-12 February 2008

This workshop was organized by Ms Sudha Risal Sharma, Resource Centre Coordinator/ Librarian at Lumbini Eye Institute.  There was an international perspective provided at this event with the lead facilitator, P. Kirubanithi Sr. Librarian & Info Officer Aravind Eye Care System Madurai, from India and presentations by representatives of BCEIO/Seva in Canada, AVSL in the USA, as well as from the PERI CC in Nepal - Mr Bhandary.  The focus of the workshop was to share current practice and develop and expand the i-connect network of librarians to include vision science librarians in Nepal. In addition an Asia chapter of the Association of Vision Science Librarians (AVSL) was established. The event was well received and feedback very positive indicating the opportunity this has provided for further development.  ”Now we have the connection with the national as well as international librarians to share information of vision science literature”.  Plans are already underway for a presentation in March entitled "Utility study of 2 days workshop format for GSDL implemenation: case study of Lumbini Eye Institute".

PERI resources and NEPJOL, Management Campus, Purwanchal University, Biratnagar, December 2007

Familiarisation workshop on PERI resources and NEPJOL was presented on 23 December by Mr Anand Prasad Chaudhary, Assistant Librarian, at the Management Campus, Purwanchal University, Biratnagar. Thirty five participants including the Dean, Campus Chief, Head of the Departments and Master Degree Students, attended the training and expressed their appreciation of the available resources.

Participants at the PERI resources and NEPJOL workshop, December 2007

Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL) Editorial Workshop, September 2007

An Editorial Workshop for editors of journals on the Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL) website was recently held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The event was organised by Tribhuvan University Central Library and was attended by 20 editors from 10 journals, who learned about the activities and responsibilities of an editorial office. They also learned how to use the online peer review system available on the NepJOL website in order to receive and process articles for their journals.

For more information about the Journals Online Project please click here.

A Newspaper report about the workshop appeared in Hamro Pusta, a local Nepal newspaper:

• To read the original article in Nepalese, please click here (PDF 816kb)
• To read the English Translation, please click here (PDF 24kb)
  

Participants at Editorial Workshop, TUCL, Kathmandu Nepal

Working on NepJOL at the workshop

Dynamic Society Nepal and Tribhuvan University Central Library together presented a 3 day residential workshop to 20 partcipants who represented 16 national institutions.  The event, in Nagarkot, Bhaktapur, was entitled Scientific Literature Review for Knowledge Advocacy using PERI Online Resources. Following this event, participants felt more able and ready to present training to promote resource usage.  Three shorter events were also run aimed to increase and promote electronic resources during June 2007.

Programme overview on day 1 from the programme coordinator, Dr. Gautam

Participants in the Symposium Day, day three.