The Bukoba, Tanzania community is embarking on an extraordinary journey – its first library. This paper was written to document Community Solutions for Africa’s Development’s (COSAD) story and experience, a non-profit organization working to bring a library to Bukoba. It is a qualitative case study, completed through discussion, online research, a semester long independent study, and library consultation, exploring the following: sustainability for libraries and community programs; electronic access and its challenges (including available access programs, such as HINARI and AGORA); and the very foundation of this library’s aim and purpose – addressing the vast information and digital divide, both of which influence the current standard of l...
Due to high rate of enrolment in primary schools which is as a result of UPE, more children are goin...
Due to high rate of enrolment in primary schools which is as a result of UPE, more children are goin...
This paper discussed digital divide, issues and strategies for intervention in Nigerian libraries. I...
This paper chronicles interventions to renovate and repurpose a community library in one of the poor...
This paper chronicles interventions to renovate and repurpose a community library in one of the poor...
Library services play a critical role in supporting communities across the African continent as they...
This masters thesis concerns the Public Library Service in Eastern Africa, Tanzania. Our subject w...
The paper explores the challenges faced by digital libraries in Africa and highlights solutions to c...
Library services play a critical role in supporting communities across the African continent as they...
This paper traces the establishment of African national libraries and the functions with which they ...
This exploratory study describes the characteristics of four independent urban community libraries i...
Public libraries and development organizations share many common goals that make them strong potenti...
This is a study of, first, the climate, conditions, practices and factors which all converge to cons...
The Tanganyika Library Service (TLS) was the national public library service set up in Tanzania, Eas...
Public libraries are known to play a major role in fostering knowledge and information to the commun...
Due to high rate of enrolment in primary schools which is as a result of UPE, more children are goin...
Due to high rate of enrolment in primary schools which is as a result of UPE, more children are goin...
This paper discussed digital divide, issues and strategies for intervention in Nigerian libraries. I...
This paper chronicles interventions to renovate and repurpose a community library in one of the poor...
This paper chronicles interventions to renovate and repurpose a community library in one of the poor...
Library services play a critical role in supporting communities across the African continent as they...
This masters thesis concerns the Public Library Service in Eastern Africa, Tanzania. Our subject w...
The paper explores the challenges faced by digital libraries in Africa and highlights solutions to c...
Library services play a critical role in supporting communities across the African continent as they...
This paper traces the establishment of African national libraries and the functions with which they ...
This exploratory study describes the characteristics of four independent urban community libraries i...
Public libraries and development organizations share many common goals that make them strong potenti...
This is a study of, first, the climate, conditions, practices and factors which all converge to cons...
The Tanganyika Library Service (TLS) was the national public library service set up in Tanzania, Eas...
Public libraries are known to play a major role in fostering knowledge and information to the commun...
Due to high rate of enrolment in primary schools which is as a result of UPE, more children are goin...
Due to high rate of enrolment in primary schools which is as a result of UPE, more children are goin...
This paper discussed digital divide, issues and strategies for intervention in Nigerian libraries. I...
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