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10 November 2001
First ODINAFRICA Training Course in Marine Information Management closes in Cape Town, South Africa

The First ODINAFRICA Training Course on Marine Information Management was held in Cape Town, South Africa, kindly hosted by Marine and Coastal Management at the Research Aquarium, Sea Point. All ODINAFRICA participating countries, through their ODINAFRICAN National Coordinator, were invited to identify a suitable participant (librarian with computer expertise) who would, subsequent to the course, be responsible for the implementation of the agreed upon work plan.

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Seventeen out of twenty ODINAFRICA countries were ale to send a participant. Countries who were unable to attend were Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon. In order to ensure full cooperation of these countries in the ODINAFRICA Marine Information Management programme alternative arrangements for their training will need to be made.

Following the First Session of the IODE Steering Group for the Resource Kit (Miami, March 2001) a comparison had been made of a number of Integrated Library Management System (ILMS) software packages for small, specialized libraries. As a result of this comparison the Steering Group had recommended INMAGIC's DB/TextWorks for Libraries. Accordingly this software was purchased for all ODINAFRICA cooperating institutions. Between two and four licenses were provided to the libraries, in accordance with their request. Additionally, the Web Publisher Lite was purchased and installed on the IOC's web server to host the ODINAFRICA Union Catalogue (which will be a merged copy of all ODINAFRICA national library catalogues). Training material for the DB/TextWorks courses and practicals were provided by INMAGIC's Africa dealer MINDEX (based in South Africa)

Theoretical Lectures were provided by Prof.Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen (University Library, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium), Mrs. Linda Pikula (NOAA Miami Regional Library, Miami, United States), Mrs. Pauline Simpson (Head of Information Services National Oceanographic Library, Southampton Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom), Dr. Murari Tapaswi (Librarian National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India). Practical training in the use of the INMAGIC DB/TextWorks for Libraries was provided by Mr. Johan Van Wijck and Mrs. Bella Odendaal.

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the party	the lecture room
hard at work	murari and peter having a laugh

The report of the Training Course can be found in the Documents Section

Author: P.Pissierssens
Item: 20011103