The course introduces students to the concepts and operations of public or coommunity librarianship
1. Course Description
This course equips learners with knowledge and skills of creating, maintaining, evaluating and accessing electronic information resources
2. Objectives of the Course
The main objective of the course is to enable learners develop capacity to select, create, manage, evaluate, retrieve and access electronic information resources. The course has the following specific objectives: To train students on how to evaluate, select, acquire, subscribe, manage library e-resources; provide students with access management and authentication process/procedures, train on Copyright, Licensing and License Negotiation issues, and assess impact of library e-resources
3. Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Explain the nature of electronic information resources
- Demonstrate ability to create, manage and utilize electronic information resources
- Understand and describe the Copyright, Licensing and License Negotiation
- Evaluate e-information resources
1. Course Description
This course traces the evolution of knowledge, indicating the process involved, including its discovery, capture, assessment and application. The course also analyses knowledge management in the content of technological developments and its impact on production and organizational performance.
2. Objectives of the Course
The main objective of this course is to enable students to acquire and develop competencies required in knowledge management.
3. Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Identify, create and distribute knowledge using Knowledge Management (KM) best practices
- Establish criteria for applying KM solutions
- Create knowledge assets from personal expertise, events and other key sources
- Analyze and build communities of practice to contribute and share knowledge
- Apply a comprehensive KM strategies that leverages the cultural values of organization
- Evaluate the success of a KM project to maintain effectiveness
This is a core course which imparts knowledge on the systematic control of records from creation or receipt, through their processing, distribution, organization, storage and retrieval, to their ultimate disposition.
1. Course Description
This course introduces students to the management of archives and provision of access to archive collections. The course covers the preservation and conservation of archival materials, access, reference and outreach programme and managing an archives service.
2. Objectives of the course
This course will equip students with knowledge and skills on how to manage archives (records of continuing value) from the time they received in the archival repository.
3. Learning Outcome
Upon successful completion of this course, a student should be able to:
- Describe archival terminologies, and methods used in the management of archival records and archival institutions.
- Describe preservation and conservation issues
- Analyse issues on access, reference and outreach programme
- Apply knowledge of managing archives in the public or private sector
This course will critical examine the theories that underpin development of key areas of information and technology. By taking a critical/reflective approach to learning through lectures, seminar presentations and discussions. The course hopes to convey content and perspective that go against the tradition by being counter intuitive and critically informed of the current issues in information and human communication.
This course equips the students with skills in monitoring and evaluation of health and development interventions at project, programme and organizational level.
The course introduces students to key principles of management, within the clear framework of planning, organizing, leading and controlling, to enable them to become competent managers at records and archival institutions. Special emphasis will be on the skills, competencies, techniques and knowledge needed to successfully manage organizations.
