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2000 Annual ReportBy Gunilla Natvig, Administrative Officer
Rapport Annuel 2000 du Pogramme ALP BackgroundThe mission of the Advancement of Librarianship Programme (ALP) is to further the library profession, library institutions and library and information services in the developing countries of Africa, Asia and Oceania, and Latin America and the Caribbean.Within the special ALP areas, the Medium-Term Programme (MTP) goals are to assist in continuing education and training; to support the development of library associations; to promote the establishment and development of library and information services to the general public, including the promotion of literacy; and to promote the introduction of new technology into library services. The scope of ALP is wide. Cooperation with relevant IFLA professional bodies and with regional and international organisations is therefore essential for the implementation of the programme. ALP achieves its goals through a carefully planned programme of different activities in close cooperation with IFLA´s Regional Offices, IFLA´s Regional Division and its three sections, and other partners. This cooperation includes activities such as fund-raising, scholarships and attachment programmes, conferences, seminars and workshops, pilot projects, publications and databases. Staff and FinanceIFLA, Uppsala University and 24 Nordic library associations and institutions fund the International Focal Point (IFP) for ALP at Uppsala University Library. Danida pays for one half-time position and for translations and publications. Sida funds are also used for the secretariat. To this should be added contributions in kind from Uppsala University Library.Birgitta Bergdahl, Core Programme Director was granted an early retirement as from August and Birgitta Sandell was appointed new Director of the Programme. Gunilla Natvig, Administrative Officer, worked at 50% throughout the year. Peter Borg was working as Administrative Assistant at 40% from February to June. In December Karin Lindblom took up the same duty. Professional ActivitiesThe sponsors in 2000 were Sida, Danida, Finnida, the Finnish Library Association, Norad and two Swedish library associations. In addition, those responsible for projects in the regions contributed with their own resources and raised considerable funds from external sources.ALP Meetings and SeminarsThere was money left from the Danida contribution towards JICPA (Joint IFLA/ICA Committee on Preservation in Africa) for the period 1997-1999, which made a fifth meeting of the JICPA Committee possible. This meeting took place in Rabat, Morocco January 31 - February 2.Regional workshop on the evaluation for the provision of school libraries in the SCECSAL Region (p.138). The workshop was organised by Enoch Chipunza, Zimbabwe Library Association and took place in Harare, Zimbabwe in November. The objectives of the workshop were to share information on the current situation in school libraries in the region of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa with the intention to come up with recommendations for the improvement of school libraries. Sida funded the workshop. A final report from the workshop is expected shortly. Networking for library development in the Arab states (p.248). The seminar was held from 2-4 March in Beirut, Lebanon. Over 100 participants from Lebanon and the Middle East region attended. Several papers dealt with the possibilities and prospects for cooperation between libraries in the region. Question sessions during the seminar were lively with debate on topics such as censorship of the Internet in some Arab countries, the role of the private sector in developing networks and the need to attain regional self-sufficiency in document supply. Amelia McKenzie and Hilda Nasser organised the seminar and the majority of funding support was received from Sida. Workshop to design a para-professional programme for distance education in the Caribbean region (p.335). The workshop took place in Puerto Rico, March 13-15. Twenty representatives from fourteen countries in the Caribbean and Latin American region participated in the workshop. It was organised by Blanca Hodge and Marie-Françoise Bernabé and held at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Puerto Rico. The idea of the workshop emerged from a previous seminar entitled "Tools for library development" held in Martinique 1997. This workshop identified the need to strengthen collaborative ties in the region was, in order to support Distance Education for the working personnel in the different libraries and documentation centres. At the end of the workshop a committee was selected to develop the specific content of the various modules and select learning strategies and this committee met in Puerto Rico, November 23-30. Another committee was designated to develop the project to be presented to different funding agencies. Sida funded the workshops. Tools for the professional development of library workers in the information age (p.342). This workshop took place in Viña del Mar, Chile, 17-21 July. It was designed along the same lines as the event in Martinique in 1997, "Tools for library development", and its objective was to carry out a regional diagnostic of the situation of libraries and librarians in the region, analysing the necessities and proposing area of future regional co-operation. Three delegates were invited from each of the countries in the southern cone region of Latin America: Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. The proceedings were published in the IFLA ALP Project Report Series (No 19), and can be requested from the ALP secretariat in Uppsala. The workshop was funded by Sida. Latin American meeting on the attention to indigenous communities through library services (p.343) 15-17 November in Mexico. 60 people representing different institutions with an interest in indigenous issues attended the first two days, which were open. Fourteen participants from Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Mexico participated in the closed session. A working group was formed and a declaration with proposed guidelines for library service to indigenous communities in Latin America was adopted. Each group member were responsible for disseminating the declaration amongst libraries and institutions. The workshop was funded by Sida. Meeting of ALP Advisory Committee. The ALP Advisory Committee consisting of the chairs and secretaries of the three regional sections and of IFLA's regional office managers met at Uppsala University Library, 12-17 October to discuss the future of Division 8, to evaluate the ALP projects and plan the activities for the coming two years. Ross Shimmon, Secretary General of IFLA participated one day during the discussions about Division 8. The evaluation of the projects was presented at a meeting with ALP Nordic Support Group. Sida funded the meeting. Birgitta Sandell participated in the meeting "Donors Briefing on the Revitalization of Public Libraries in Africa" organised by the Carnegie Corporation, 11-12 May in New York. IFLA's General Conference in JerusalemDanida Travel GrantsIn 1998 Danida allocated a yearly sum of DKK 900 000, for the setting up of a Conference Travel grant to enable librarians from developing countries to attend the IFLA General Conferences. To start with, the grant runs for a three-year period and the IFLA Jerusalem Conference 2000 was the second conference to which the grant could be applied. The sponsorship covered registration, travel, accommodation and a daily allowance. 25 people from the regions were supported to attend the conference.Nine of the Danida grantees were selected and invited to attend the satellite workshop in Haifa: "Marketing and Communication for Libraries", in addition to the general conference. Two persons were also selected to attend the "Preservation of Newspapers' Symposium" in Paris. Speakers GrantsWith money from Sida ALP could support three people who had been selected to present papers at the Conference in the Open Sessions of the Regional Sections. Ms Nurilya Davletyarova, National Library of Kyrgyz Republic presented her paper "Integration of Central Asian libraries into the international library society". Ms Ana Lorena Echavarría Solis, University of Costa Rica presented her and Alice Miranda's paper "La biblioteca global y la identidad centroamericana". Unfortunately, Kenneth Nwalo, Nigeria was not granted a visa, and his paper "Managing information for development in the 21st century: prospects for African libraries, challenges to the world" was presented by Gabriel Alegbeleye.Birgitta Sandell and Gunilla Natvig participated in the Jerusalem Conference and took part in the Regional Standing Committee meetings. IFLA Regional Standing Committee MeetingsThe annual meeting of the Regional Standing Committees in their own regions are most important for the development of ALP.Birgitta Sandell participated in the meeting of the Section for Asia and Oceania in Beirut, Lebanon and in the Africa Section meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Gunilla Natvig participated in the Latin American and the Caribbean Section meeting in Puerto Rico. Scholarships and AttachmentsScholarships in Information Technology to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, ThailandTwo scholarships were awarded for the three-month training course in Modern Information Technology in 2000 at the AIT, namely to Ms Lilia F. Echiverri, Philippines and Ms Zhang Jingbo, China. Unfortunately, Ms Echiverri could not take up her scholarship and Ms Maliwan Noibuatip, Thailand replaced her. The recipients of the 1999 awards, Ms Oyuntulga Mandshir, Mongolia and Ms Nguyen Hong Hanh, Vietnam, also attended the course in 2000. These scholarships are funded by Sida.
In Service Training, Attachments, for Middle or Senior Staff The candidates for both programmes were selected by the Advisory and Appraisal Committee of the Regional Standing Committee for Asia and Oceania. The Bart Nwafor Staff Development Programme in Africa started in 1997 with funding from Norad. The Regional Office for Africa is responsible for the programme and ALP IFP holds and disburses the funds and gives a statement of accounts to Norad. Selected for 2000 were: Getaw Smumye, Ethiopia, Viscount Buer, Ghana, Hauwa K. Ismaila, Nigeria and Walter Omona, Uganda. Host institutions were East African Community Secretariat, Tanzania and University of Nairobi Library, Kenya. Other Ongoing ProjectsIn cooperation with the IFLA Africa Regional Section and IFLA´s Regional Office for Africa, ALP participated at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, in Harare, 4-7 August. Stan Made, Chair of the IFLA Regional Standing Committee for Africa, was responsible for the stand and the exhibition. The stand was paid for by money from Sida.
Establishment of a centre collecting and distributing school material in the Ivory Coast (p. 128).
Educational kit for para-professionals to promote reading (p. 346). Minor Field Studies (MFS). Sida has a cooperation programme with Swedish universities, Minor Field Studies (MFS), and the ALP secretariat is administering this programme within the library field. The programme aims at giving Swedish students the opportunity to carry out a two months study in a developing country. In 2000 one student carried out a study on "The use and development of information technology at two university libraries in Costa Rica". Host institution was the Library School, Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica. Another student carried out a study in Hanoi Vietnam, "Developing Press Ethics: A study of the creation of an ethic code in Vietnamese Media".
PUBLICATIONS The following issues were published in 2000: 18. Programmes de formation pour la diffusion de l'information dans les Communautés rurales en Afrique/Model Curriculum for Rural Community Information Studies. Final report from the Expert meeting on training for rural community information services in Africa, Dakar, Senegal, May 1998. Edited by Kingo Mchombu, Antoinette Fall Corréa and Djibril Ndiaye. B.L.D. Bibliothèque-Lecture-Développement, Dakar, 2000. 19. Herramientas para el desarrollo profesional de los trabajadores de bibliotecas en la era de la sociedad de la información. Memorias del seminario en Viña del Mar, Chile, 18-20 julio, 2000. Editada por Amanda Jolly. Uppsala University Library, 2000. ISBN 91-85092-59-2 The following titles are under preparation: 16. Proceedings of the regional meeting on UNESCO Public Library Manifesto held in Bahía, Brazil, 24-27 March, 1998. 17. Proceedings of the workshop on Networking for effective libraries and information services held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 17-23 October 1999.
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