http://hdl.handle.net/10570/203 Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:43:56 GMT 2017-07-09T13:43:56Z http://hdl.handle.net/10570/5498 The challenges of advocating for open access through institutional repository building: Experiences from Makerere University, Uganda Kakai, Miriam This paper was perceived as a result of the slow response in populating an institutional repository at Makerere University, launched in 2006 under the umbrella name “Uganda Scholarly Digital Library (USDL)”. Having heard of the adage that goes “build it and they will come”, the calamities of being disappointed by waiting to see the repository growing at the researchers will were avoided. In response to this, awareness campaigns were launched, efforts to sensitise and collect content at unit and individual level were undertaken, and publicity done alongside the regular information literacy sessions conducted by Makerere University Library. To-date, the publications archived in USDL are less than 1,000 items. Given that USDL was initiated to ease accessibility to publications that were difficult to come by, open access was advocated for. However, there are challenges experienced so far and these include the status of institutional copyright policies, absence of tools to enforce or implement mandatory archiving, and the submission of electronic theses and dissertations, varying publisher copyright policies; difficulties in obtaining author versions of publications, doubts about the quality of open access research, plagiarism fears, and technical limitations. A conference paper presented at the IFLA 2009 conference in Italy. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10570/5498 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10570/1002 Commissioning of the Makerere University main library new library extension: activities@MakLib Musoke, Maria G. N. We are all assembled here today because of the strategic decision made by Makerere University Council to support the Library to extend the needed space. This was enhanced by the grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which focuses on the automation of the Library services and collection development. I congratulate the Makerere University Library team headed by the University Librarian, Professor Maria N. Musoke, for competing with several University Libraries in East and West Africa for this grant and emerging the best. With this new facility and the properties therein, your contribution to the transformation of the Main Library will forever be remembered in the life of this great institution. Makerere University Library New Building Commissioning Booklet, 29th October 2012. Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10570/1002 2012-10-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10570/1020 Connecting to a cloud-hosted DSpace instance (Version 1.8.2) and testing the enhancements in DSpace 3.0 demo Mwesigwa, Andrew Many institutions have been introduced to DSpace but lack the necessary IT skilled staff to manage DSpace configurations. Meanwhile, in other institutions, there is a high IT staff turnover. If the IT person abruptly leaves an institution, it leaves a vacuum, thereby causing irregular connectivity of the IR whenever there is need to handle DSpace troubleshooting tasks or specific customizations. Another part of this project was to identify and evaluate some of the new features of the latest DSpace version 3.0. Project report and presentation submitted for the Lib@web 2012 International Training Programme at Universiteit Antwerpen Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10570/1020 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10570/4303 Evaluating Makerere University Library's institutional repository using the balanced scorecard Naluwooza, Monica This study evaluates Makerere University and Makerere University Library’s (MakLib) Institutional Repository using the balanced scorecard. As a performance management tool, the balanced scorecard has been successfully applied to university libraries in developing countries, mostly notably the University of Pretoria Library. It has also been used for the purposes of strategic planning in other kinds of organizations. The research question that guided the study asked how the balanced scorecard can be used to evaluate the performance of the Institutional Repository at Makerere University Library. A number of sub-questions focused on specific aspects of the balanced scorecard and institutional repositories with a view to answering the main research question. The four key perspectives of the balanced scorecard were used as the broad structure for the evaluation of MakLib’s Institutional Repository. A hybrid methodology blended a number of appropriate data collection methods within a qualitative approach. The emphasis was therefore on the analysis and interpretation of the key primary and secondary sources related to the topic, supplemented by key informant analysis and the comparative method. The primary sources included original planning documents, reports, and website pages. The example of the application of the balanced scorecard to the University of Pretoria Library’s open scholarship program was the basis for the comparative evaluation. The study is timeous because MakLib’s Institutional Repository has not yet been evaluated since its inception a few years ago. Also, the study benefited by the researcher’s familiarity with the Institutional Repository, although objectivity was maintained in self-conscious way. The findings of the study revealed the inadequacies of MakLib’s Institutional Repository and proposed a strategy map for an improved Institutional Repository. On the basis of the analysis and interpretation of the data, the study also explicated MakLib’s e-strategy as an additional achievement. The general conclusion is that the balanced scorecard is an effective tool for the strategic implementation and evaluation of e-services of an academic library in a developing country. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10570/4303 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z