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    Exploring the rate of e-commerce adoption among SMEs in the UK.
    ( 2005) Sentamu, Timothy
    This paper presents the findings of a study of Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the East Midlands Region in the UK. A collective case study of five SMEs was carried out to verify the reasons why there is slow adoption of e-commerce among UK SMEs. This was done through the examination of the following issues and how they affect e-commerce adoption among SMEs in the East midlands region which was the area of focus. 1. Characteristics of SMEs. 2. Benefits/Drivers for e-commerce adoption. 3. Barriers to e-commerce adoption. The results of the study indicate that there is indeed a slow rate of e-commerce adoption among SMEs in the East Midlands region and hence forth the UK. It has to some extent been established that all the above issues in one way or another contribute towards the slow rate of e-commerce adoption among SMEs.
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    The role of knowledge management in health libraries in Uganda: a case study of Albert Cook Library, Makerere University
    (Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL), 2006-07) Agaba, Didace M. ; Kinengyere, Alison A.
    The development of knowledge management in recent years has become a key concern for libraries. Although Knowledge Management is an old concept, we need to recognize the fact that it has been with us but not in its infancy especially in the health libraries. It therefore calls for major change in institutional thinking and acceptance by the librarians that their service mus also be subject to continuous improvement. This paper examines important issues in the development of KM, and how health libraries can become more effective and efficient as information intermediaries. It will also examine the role that KM has played in the Makerere University Medical School. The paper concludes that institutional policy, new technologies and the push towards the use of electronic information resources are forcing changes throughout health libraries.
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    Institutional change in the Ugandan Library sector: the establishment of the National Library of Uganda
    (Sage Publications, 2007) Hansson, Jaocim ; Kawalya, Jane
    This article is part of a larger research project focusing on institutional change in the Ugandan library sector from the 1960s up until today, with special focus on the development of the National Library of Uganda. The article is based primarily on official publications such as different legislation passed by the Ugandan Parliament on library issues and on documentation reporting on various initiatives and projects aiming at building a functioning library and information infrastructure in Uganda during the last four decades. Findings show that initiatives have been regularly neglected at the political levels, both nationally and locally. The founding of the National Library of Uganda has affected the Ugandan library system in a major way and the country is now better equipped to face some of the challenges created by the requirements of the global information society and by high levels of illiteracy, especially in the rural areas. The article pinpoints some of these challenges and suggests further action on both professional and political levels.
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    Strengthening the foundations - sharing expertise in East Africa
    (Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2008-04-28) Kasusse, Michael ; Kiwala, Yusuf ; Ntalaka, Robert ; Sennoga, Richard ; Albright, Kendra S.
    Raising the profile of librarians requires a strong professional identity at all levels. Here, members of the Information Science Foundation for Eastern Africa discuss why a new association was needed, and how it is helping to share expertise across the region.
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    The challenges of advocating for open access through institutional repository building: Experiences from Makerere University, Uganda
    (IFLA, 2009) 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.
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    Information literacy at Makerere University
    (University “Lucian Blaga” of Sibiu, 2010-04-21) Nassiwa, Grace
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    The quest for academic status: a critical review of the criteria for appointment and promotion of Librarians at Makerere University, Uganda.
    (Makerere University, 2011) Nassali-State, Eliz
    Academic librarians all over the globe have hankered for academic status and while some have attained it, it is remained elusive for others. For decades, librarians at Makerere University enjoyed academic status on appointment in the University service till the enactment of the University and Other Tertiary Institutions Act of 2001 that stipulated that a librarian had to be designated academic. This stipulation requires that a librarian to be designated by the appointing organ of the university. The main aim of this paper is to understand how the librarians at Makerere University have repositioned themselves to take advantage of this new development, consider implication(s) to continuing professional development, workplace learning and service delivery and the challenges. The methodology employed includes, questionnaire, documentary review, Interview method and personal experience.
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    Usability of Makula among Makerere University Library users: a case study
    ( 2011) Lugya, Fredrick ; Kiwuwa, Mbawaki, Irene
    This study explored the extent to which Makerere University Library Access (Makula) can be used by Makerere University Library (Mulib) users to achieve their teaching, research and information needs with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction. The research considered the impact of five usability factors as outlined by usability consultant Jakob Nielsen and computer science professor Ben Shneiderman. The factors included: 1) how easy is it for Makula users to accomplish basic tasks the first time they encounter Makula (Learnability); 2) how quickly they use and continue to use Makula following the first information literacy instruction class (Efficiency); 3) how easily users re-establish proficiency of Makula after a period of not using it (Memorability); 4) how many errors Makula users make, how severe are the errors, and how easily they recover from these errors (Errors); 5) how pleasant and satisfactory it is to use Makula (Satisfaction). A qualitative and quantitative study was conducted involving Makula users with good and poor internet skills. The participants included first-time and experienced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and academic staff. The participants responded to a questionnaire, a think-after interview, and exploratory observation of Makula. The results revealed that all participants agreed that Makula strongly meets the purpose it serves (effectiveness). It further showed that Makula is accessible all the time (efficient) and satisfied the users needs (satisfaction). Librarians from other university libraries and library science graduate students who had never used Makula were used as a control measure and confirmed Jef Raskin’s conclusion: “easy to use interfaces are often easy because of the user's exposure to previous similar systems”.
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    The hidden forces that positively shape library consortia: addressing the gap between developed and developing countries
    ( 2011) Lugya, Fredrick Kiwuwa
    With diminishing finances, it is rarely possible for a library or information center to have enough resources to fulfill the needs of its clients. Libraries working under effective collaborative initiatives in developed countries have registered tremendous success compared to libraries in developing countries. There is a growing need for libraries in developing countries to redefine their resource sharing strategies so as to benefit from library collaboration that can result in a more effective means of meeting the needs of their library users. This paper looks at issues surrounding the factors that have led to successful resource sharing among academic and research libraries in developed countries and how to practically apply such success factors to improve collaboration among academic and research libraries in developing countries. Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL) are the focus in this research. This research has showed that subscription to and continued participation in a consortium is a result of a calculated return on investment by different stakeholder. Research has demonstrated that there factors considered more important by consortium membership, those that are more important to consortium staff, while other factors influence libraries to join and continue to participate in a single consortium. More so, there are those most influential consortium values and different factors that lead to the success of a consortium.
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    Users’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding electronic resources and information literacy: a pilot study at Makerere University.
    ( 2011) Kinengyere, Alison Annet ; Olander, Birgitta
    This paper presents a pilot study of an on-going doctoral study, addressing the knowledge, attitudes and practices of e-resources users. The study was a crosssectional survey of graduate students, researchers, academic staff, heads of departments and college librarians at the Makerere University School of Public Health. The purpose was to test data collection methods and gain pre-understanding of users’ perceptions and use of e-resources. Conclusions: Data collection instruments had to be adjusted in terms of selection and grouping of subjects, and questionnaire rephrasing. - Users’ knowledge of available electronic resources is often inadequate, which means that they cannot utilize the e-resources fully. This in turn has a negative effect on learning, teaching and research. Most subjects had had no training in the use of electronic library resources. The users should be encouraged to participate in information literacy training.
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    Connecting to a cloud-hosted DSpace instance (Version 1.8.2) and testing the enhancements in DSpace 3.0 demo
    (Universiteit Antwerpen, 2012) 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.
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    Evaluating Makerere University Library's institutional repository using the balanced scorecard
    ( 2012) 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.
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    Commissioning of the Makerere University main library new library extension: activities@MakLib
    (Makerere University Library, 2012-10-29) 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.
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    Information behaviour of Makerere University Masters and Doctoral students with specific reference to the use of information technology (IT)
    (University of Pretoria, 2014-04) Kiwanuka, Luke Francis
    Academic libraries are facing a major task of coping with the changing information needs and seeking and searching behaviours of their users. This situation is further complicated by the changing nature of the formats in which scholarly information is being produced. Most scholarly information resources are increasingly produced in digital formats, hence changing and potentially enhancing the library’s outlook on providing services to its users. This is one of the major factors leading academic libraries to install and integrate the use of information technology tools so as to improve the library and information service delivery to the users. This study explores the ways in which the information technology systems are integrated in information service delivery by the Library (MakLib) and have influenced the information seeking and searching behaviour of the Masters and Doctoral students at Makerere University. The main research question of the study is “How has the integration of information technology influenced the information seeking and searching behaviours of the Masters and Doctoral students at Makerere University Library?” The study employs a qualitative approach in its research design. Data was collected from 101 respondents by means of a self-administered questionnaire. The major findings from the study indicate that the students are aware of and use the installed IT tools to satisfy a variety of information needs, though they face challenges with the user interfaces of the different electronic resources databases. Furthermore, the problem where some resources are accessed through the LAN and usernames and passwords also greatly hinders them from satisfying their needs. The study therefore recommends that the library management should place more emphasis on information literacy training to improve the searching skills of the users, as well as installing proxy servers which will enable them to access the electronic resources even when they are off campus.
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    Evading the endgame in an insurgency undertaking: The case of the Lord’s Resistance Army and beyond
    (Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-06) Munyua, David O.
    The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency is Africa’s oldest, lasting for over 25 years. This work studies the LRA to find out why it has survived so long and how. A combination of empirical methods was used to analyze data related to the LRA and the countries affected by the LRA insurgency. The findings show that the LRA prolonged its insurgency by taking advantage of its environment, including elevation, watered areas, the road network, land cover, proximity to state capital, and moderate population density. The LRA also exploited the political situations in the region, such as the rivalry between Uganda and Sudan, and the fragility of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Sudan. Last, the LRA modified its organizational structure according to the political and military situations it encountered, which enabled it to adapt and evade the threat of termination. The effectiveness of these methods of survival depended on the intuition of the LRA leadership. The author recommends both kinetic methods to manhunt LRA leaders and non-kinetic (psychological) operations to degrade the LRA’s strength by encouraging mass defections from its ranks.
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    Ungoverned spaces and armed civil conflicts: The predicament of developing nations
    (Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-06) Munyua, David O.
    Several developing nations are grappling with the phenomenon of ungoverned territories, which are believed to be harboring insurgent, terrorist, and other armed violent groups. This study investigates how a developing nation can use its resources to reduce violent activities and, consequently, ungoverned spaces from within its sovereign territory. The study uses geo-referenced violent events data as a measure of violence and spatiotemporal data for law enforcement agencies (LEAs), social services, and economic infrastructure as measures of state authority. All data is specific to Uganda. Using multi-regression models (negative binomial and matched wake analysis), the study employs interpolated spatiotemporal data to estimate the effects of state authority factors on violent events over space and time. The findings show that LEAs, including police, prisons, courts, and border protection, are the most effective in reducing violence and therefore ungoverned territories. Save for schools and local governments, social services like health centers, and economic infrastructure like roads, tend to be associated with increased levels of violence. The policy implication for developing nations is therefore to consider directing their resources toward building their LEAs before or concurrently with socioeconomic services in order to reduce violence emanating from ungoverned spaces.
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    Organisational readiness for implementation of an Integrated Library System in Uganda: An assessment of Makerere University Library
    (University of Pretoria, 2015-11) Maka, Sarah Nakayima
    The implementation of integrated library systems (ILS) gives libraries opportunities to automate their core activities for efficient service delivery. While many libraries have succeeded in their implementation of an ILS others are facing partial or complete failure especially in Sub-Saharan Africa for various reasons. An organisation’s readiness for change is regarded as a critical antecedent to the successful implementation of information systems such as ILS, which necessitates that libraries establish an adequate level of readiness to achieve ILS implementation success. This study proposes a tool to assess the organisational readiness of Ugandan libraries to implement an ILS. The tool was piloted at Makerere University Library (MakLib) to retroactively assess its organisational readiness to implement Virtua-­‐ILS. A qualitative research approach was employed whereby data was collected using semi-­‐structured interviews and analysed using content analysis and descriptive statistics. The results reveal that MakLib’s level of organisational readiness to implement Virtua-­‐ILS was inadequate with respect to the training for staff and end-­‐users, IT infrastructure, finances for continued sustainability, adequate collective value of the ILS, presence of change agents, motivation, members’ shared belief in their collective capabilities to implement an ILS, system ease of use, and compatibility. Recommendations to address the deficient areas include providing structured training, seeking alternative sources of funding, piloting an open source ILS, addressing the human factors through building a robust project team with competent leadership, and establishing sufficient IT infrastructure. The study may be of value to researchers concerned with ILS implementation success in developing countries and to Ugandan libraries that are planning to automate with an ILS as well as those wishing to migrate to another ILS.
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    Nelson Mandela the Legend: Lessons to the Youth
    ( 2017) Museveni, Yoweri Kaguta
    We are gathered here to remember the work and contribution of the late Mzee Nelson Mandela, Madiba (Amaziba, eiziba-singular-in Runyankore). We cannot, however, talk about Madiba without talking about Africa. We shall understand Madiba better, if we talk about Africa first. Africa is a huge continent with a land area of 11.7million sq. miles, which makes it twelve times bigger than India, 4 times bigger than the USA and China each and more than two times the size of Russia.
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    Risk factors for hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke in Sub-Saharan Africa
    (Hindawi, 2018) Namale, Gertrude ; Kamacooko, Onesmus ; Kinengyere, Alison ; Yperzeele, Laetitia ; Cras, Patrick ; Ddumba, Edward ; Seeley, Janet ; Newton, Robert
    Introduction. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), there is a significant burden of ischemic stroke (IS) and hemorrhagic stroke (HS), although data on risk factors for each type are sparse. In this systematic review we attempt to characterize the risk factors. Methods. We systematically reviewed (PubMed, EMBASE, WHOLIS, Google Scholar, Wiley online, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)) case-control studies and case series from 1980 to 2016 that reported risk factors for IS and/or HS in SSA. For each risk factor we calculated random-effects pooled odds ratios (ORs) for case-control studies and pooled prevalence estimates for case series. Results.We identified 12 studies, including 4,387 stroke patients. Pooled analysis showed that patients who had diabetes (OR = 2.39; 95% CI: 1.14–5.03) and HIV (OR = 2.46 (95% CI: 1.59–3.81) were at a significantly greater risk of suffering fromall stroke types.There were insufficient data to examine these factors by stroke type. Among case series, the pooled prevalence of hypertension was higher for HS than for IS (73.5% versus 62.8%), while diabetes mellitus (DM) and atrial fibrillation (AF) were more prevalent among IS compared to HS (15.9% versus 10.6% and 9.6% versus 2.3%, respectively). Conclusions.There remain too few data from SSA to reliably estimate the effect of various factors on the risk of IS and HS. Furthermore, the vast majority of cases were identified in hospital and so are unlikely to be representative of the totality of stroke cases in the community.