Achievements

ACHIEVEMENTS OF GLOBAL 2000 FELLOWS

Updated April 2003

Paiki Muswazi from Swaziland is the winner of the Leadership & Management Division's International Paper Competition for Developing Country Librarians for his paper "Library and Information Services (LIS) Strategic Planning in Developing Countries: A Case Study." He will receive an all expenses-paid trip to the New York Conference and a two year SLA membership.
Muhammad Yaqub Chaudhary, Pakistan, was awarded Honorable Mention in the Leadership & Management Division's International Paper Competition for Developing Country Librarians for his paper "The Application of Leadership and Management Principles in Libraries."
Ozi Orji, in Lagos, Nigeria has been appointed Librarian for the new Nigerian subsidiary of Shell International, starting in October, 2003.
Innocent Awasom, Cameroon, participated in workshops on benchmarking at SLA meetings in Monterey California. He intends "to continue carrying out periodic bench marking/system analysis to improve upon output and stay relevant to the life of my institution." See an updated summary of his achievements below.

The 25 Global 2000 Fellows were selected by the SLA/DC chapter International Projects Committee to attend the Global 2000 Conference in Brighton, England. SLA/DC chapter raised money for 3 years and selected the best from more than 400 applicants. The fellows were a high-energy, highly committed and resourceful group. They are leaders in their countries’ quest to improve special librarianship. Many, having had little travel experience, were thrilled and grateful to SLA/DC chapter for the opportunity to attend Global 2000. Each fellow was assigned a mentor, some of them top people in SLA. The mentors did an excellent job linking fellows with vendors, and providing them with ideas and resources that would offer them hope and backup support.
Other SLA members joined the Fellows and their Mentors in discussions of issues impacting the Fellows in their regions, issues such as technology training and the ability to influence managers and government leaders in order to attract resources. Twelve of the Fellows presented or submitted papers, and most actively participated in discussions. The Mentors will continue to work with the Fellows on an individual basis. For their part, the Fellows are already rapidly communicating with each other. The KIIE listserv is also bringing everyone together to discuss various issues.
Since the Conference, Fellows have reported on exciting ventures, the realization of which were made easier thanks to their participation in the Global 2000 Conference. Here is an update on some of these achievements. Congratulations for excellent work at the DC Chapter level and for our colleagues working hard out there!

ADHIKARI, Damodar, Mr,

Library, Database, Internet Consultant, Kathmandu, Nepal
dadhikari@htp.com.np

After the Global 2000, I conducted a workshop in March 2001 on “Recent trends in Information Management and knowledge sharing.” Judy Field, former President of SLA, joined the workshop as a distinguished guest lecturer.

I’m involved in many other activities e. g.:
- the development of library legislation
- library and information networking
-  information/knowledge sharing
-  library automation with available free software
- library and information management training activities with Nepal Library Association ,       Nepal National Library, and with UNESCO (for library automation)
- library database management training programme with the latest concept of database       sharing through web etc.
- selected and elected as -President-elect Asian Chapter, SLA
I was awarded a 2000 SLA endowment grant award for my project on “Country-wide database networking plan.”

AWASOM, Innocent

On leave of absence from position of Deputy University Librarian and Head of the Research Library University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon, Cameroon
Afuh_ntaw@yahoo.co.uk March 2003: Mr. Awasom has received a Scholars at Risk Network Fellowship from the University of Chicago. He is now in Minneapolis and has been invited to attend a roundtable conference on threatened scholars from April 14 –15, 2003. He was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education, on human rights issues linked to higher education in Cameroon in particular and Africa in general. During Black History month (February 2003), he gave a talk entitled “African Libraries: Past, Present and Future,” as part of the International Librarianship seminar series at the St. Catherine Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and is scheduled to give a similar talk at his host institution, the University of Minnesota.

CHAUDHARY, Muhammad Yaqub, Mr.
Chief Librarian, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad (A.K.)
Pakistan
myaqubch@yahoo.com Muhammad Yaqub was the recipient of the SciTech Division grant and financial help from other Divisions and Chapters to attend the SLA Annual Conference in June 2002. He gave a paper at the KIIE Breakfast. He was also able to go with his son, librarian at the U.S. State Dept. office in Islamabad, to the ALA conference, where he was asked to write an article for ALA. He then came Washington, where he was interviewed for “Information Outlook,” and the article appeared in the October 2002 issue. He also traveled to the IFLA in Glasgow Scotland, to which he received a travel grant. Muhammad has been “twinned” by the Pacific Northwest Chapter.

ECHIVERRI, Lilia

Asst Law Librarian, University of the Philippines, Queson City, Philippines

lily@claw.upd.edu.ph
Society of Librarians and Information Specialists (PSLIS) and elected as Board of Trustee of the Philippine Librarians Association, Inc. (PLAI). In 2002, received the following: Service Award for my dedicated service to the University of the Philippines Law Library; Certificate of Appreciation given by PLAI for my contribution to the success of the Forum on General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and as Workshop Facilitator on the National Congress on the Emergent Roles of Librarians and Other Information Professionals in National Development Library. Chaired the following PSLIS activities: Training and Study Visit in Thailand; Seminar-Workshop on Strategic Collection Management and Information Access and Forum on The Modern Trends of Managing Government and Corporate Documents, Files and Publications; and as Participant of PLAI on the Forum on Grants and Grants Seeking: What Librarians and Information Specialists Should Know; Association of Special Libraries of the Philippines (ASLP) on Enhancing the Image of Librarians and Information Specialists; and the Philippine Group of Law Librarians, Inc. (PGLL) on Global Competitiveness of Filipino Librarians. Lastly, received a certificate of Accomplishment on Development of the Internet for ASIAN Law (DIAL) - A Regional Technical Assistance Project of the Asian Development Bank.”

FARAFONOVA, Lyudmila , Associate Director, Altai Regional Scientific Library, Altai, Russia
akunb@ab.ru

“During past two years there have been considerable changes in our library:
- some projects based on new technologies

- Our patrons' access to domestic and world electronic information resources is expanding.

- The library is enthusiastically working on document preservation issues and on transferring valuable materials to other formats.
- Grants and new partnerships. One of our recent
initiatives was to write a paper motivating the opening of an American corner. We've sent the paper to the American embassy in Moscow.
     It's a great pleasure for me to recall the Global-2000 Conference; everything I saw and heard there will always help me in my work. The conference became the place where I found new friends. Now I correspond actively with Zoya Golban [from the Indiana Chapter, which has “twinned” Lyudmila as an SLA member]. I study the SLA on-line materials as well as everything I receive by mail; it gives me the opportunity to have the latest and best information on what is going on in the library community.”

HERASYM, Ivan, leaving the Ukraine to emigrate to Canada.
herasym@ha.lviv.ua

“In January I shall leave the LTA Library, and will emigrate to Canada. During the last few weeks I have been working on the transition of my responsibilities. As you can imagine, the Library is a huge business and I had to take care of all aspects of its current successful functioning and, ultimately, its smooth transition to the new Director. After two years I have spent in the Library I can say our team did a good job. The collection is now twice as large as it was two years ago and the number of registered patrons has increased four times. For the time being we have around 4,000 registered users and 62,000 bibliographic records in our main database. Our OPAC is now available on the Web in both Ukrainian and English @ <http://opac.lta.lviv.ua> and we are the fastest-growing library in the Ukraine. I am confident I leave a well-organized and well-run library.”

JAIN, PK

Assistant Librarian

Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India
pkjain@ieg.ernet.in

The Global 2000 was very informative and beneficial for me. It has improved my professional skill. The other activities and details are listed below:

-         Elected President, Asian Chapter, Special Library Association, USA, for a period of two years i.e. 2002-2004. We are working on having a Conference in our region.

-         Awarded three-year membership of American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIST), USA.

-         Awarded travel grant to attend Annual Meeting/ Conference of American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIST) held in November, 2002 but could not attend due to unavoidable circumstances. The travel grant will be issued again for me to attend the October, 2003 Conference in Long Beach, California.

-         Presented a paper entitled “JSTOR: The electronic storage of Journals” in National Convention on Library and Information Networking (NACLIN 2002) held at Cochin University of Science And Technology, Cochin, India during October 21-24, 2002.”

JAIS, Jariah, Mrs

Institute Librarian and Coordinator, Corporate Information Services,Malaysian Agricultural Research and Dev. Institute

Malaysia
jjariah@mardi.my I am still heading the Library at MARDI. Currently I am reorganizing our library to reflect our increasing use of technology and computer applications . In November 2002 the government of Malaysia introduced the new Malaysian Salary Scheme for government employees. We are currently regarding all posts from the previous salary scheme to the new one. There is a lot of work involved and the exercise has to be completed before the end of March 2003. My involvement in this is as Institute Coordinator on behalf of the Librarians and Information professionals, submitting proposals and recommendations through MARDI to the central body. On the professional side I am still a Council Member of the Librarians Association of Malaysia, and still very much involved in its activities, organizing seminars, conferences and training courses. We made a bid to host IFLA in 2008 but we were informed recently that our bid could not be considered as Seoul will be hosting in 2006 (same continent!! but isn't the UK and Norway in Europe?

MARCELINO, Aguinaldo, Mr.
Librarian,
Fundação Memorial da América Latina
São Paulo, Brazil
aguinaldo@memorial.org.br
1 - Since February 2001 I've been working at Fundação Memorial da América Latina,
I've been classifying, indexing, working in projects (to get
resources with other institutions), working at the Reference Section,
receiving library students to talk about our library and librarianship
experiences, receiving other students to talk about our library and have
partnerships with schools.
2 - I also worked at the library of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San
Paolo until July 2001. Last month I presented a project, with a colleague, to take part in the library system change. It's a project for two years and hope it be approved soon. If so, I'll have two
jobs (again).
3 – I became active in the election process, and Last December 6th we had elections for the Librarianship Regional Council of São Paulo. We lost a very close vote, and will keep trying in the future. Meanwhile we’ll work for the proposals we suggested during the elections..
4 - After Global 2000 and the IFLA 2001 Conference, I was motivated to take part
in some librarianship association. In October 2001 I attended to the 2nd São Paulo Public Libraries Forum.
5 - While I was working at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, I took an Italian
language course, so now I'm able to communicate in one more language. Since
last August I've been studying Spanish, which is very important to me here at
Memorial da América Latina. Next January 6th I'll begin an informatics
course, where I intend to learn a little more about the basic Microsoft
programs (World, Excel, Power Point)
6 - Last March 2002 I attended to the 1st International Archives, Libraries,
Documentation Centres and Museums Congress, which took place (lucky for me) here at
Memorial da América Latina.
7 – Through the twinning program, The Rio Grande Chapter helped me become an SLA member

MUSWAZI, Paiki, Mr.
Coordinator: SLA African Group/Global 2000;
Special Collections, University of Swaziland Libraries
Swaziland
paiki@uniswacc.uniswa.sz Circulated in January 2001 a proposal seeking the views of African librarians on an SLA African chapter. SLA African fellows analysed incoming responses in an interim report. On July 23, 2001, SLA announced the creation of the Sub-Saharan Africa Provisional Chapter. The announcement marked the creation of SLA's 58th chapter.

NCONGWANE, Mduduzi Godfrey Head: Built Environment Library
University of Cape Town, South Africa
godfrey@uctlib.uct.ac.za Since Global 2000 Conference, I initiated and took part in a many
activities. In late 2000 and early 2001, Paiki Muswazi, Ozioma Orji,
Innocent Awasom and myself sent out questionnaires to information
professionals to gauge the interest in Africa. This effort led to submission of a report to SLA. In mid-2001, the Africa Sub-Saharan Chapter was formed under the Presidency of Naylah Abrahams (RSA).
As the Executive Member and Newsletter Editor of the provincial branch of Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) in 2001, I initiated a Membership Survey seeking to learn more about members' needs. I reported my findings to both the Committee and also presented it to the membership at Branch meeting. An executive summary was published in the
newsletter. In the same year, I served as the Committee's Media Person in preparation for the provincial Library Week. The exercise was both challenging yet successful. The Committee secured one of South Africa's writers of note, Prof. Njabulo Ndebele, who spoke on the theme of African
Renaissance. Also in 2001, I successfully applied to attend LIASA 4th Annual Conference held in Johannesburg wherein a paper I had co-written was presented. Finally, a poem I wrote in praise of LIASA was accepted by the local Museum (Cape Town) as part its permanent collection in celebration of Heritage Day held on the 21st of September every year.
In 2002, I decided to resign from the Branch Executive Committee, as I needed to focus on my Masters studies. I am currently busy with my thesis in Knowledge Management focusing on knowledge maps in two scientific companies in Cape Town. The thesis is due for submission in mid-September 2003. To crown it all this year, one of my wishes from the Global Fellows 'Wish List'
was unexpectedly granted. Former SLA President, Sylvia Piggott, came to South Africa to attend and to speak at our annual conference held in Port Elizabeth. I am pleased to say that this has laid a good foundation and if all goes according to plan, Sylvia will land on our shores again in 2003 for a specific SLA African Chapter meeting. My role is therefore to invite as many potential SLA members as possible to that conference.

ORJI, Ozi Ijeoma, Mrs. Corporate Librarian, Shell Exploration and Production Company Nigeria effective 10/02/03

orjioz@ubaplc.com

ojiorji@hotmail.com
Ozi is an officer in the Sub-Saharan Chapter of SLA, and was twinned by the Hudson Valley Chapter. She also won an InfoShare one year membership to ASIST. Her paper, submitted to the ASIST International Paper Competition, was selected by the International Information and Library Review, Elsevier Publishers, and came out in December, 2002. She will leave the United Bank of Africa and will start her new position, which was very competitive, in the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell International on 10/02/03.

RUIZ, Guisella, Costa Rica Guisella works for a private school library. In early March 2003, she attended a school librarians' meeting to promote private school library assistance to public school libraries, which have very limited resources for their students.

SOUZA FILHO, Maria Das Gracas, Ms.
Head, Polymer Bibliographic Centre,
Institute of Macromolecules
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
souzaf@gbl.com.br Submitted a proposal as part of a project of the Institute of Macromolecules to the Brazilian funding agency for science and technology for the expansion of the library services;
Prepared for testing the circulation module of the ALEP system used to automate library services and procedure s of the University bibliographic system.
Participated in a training programme on the databases included in the Brazilian consortium for electronic access of scientific articles and bibliographic references [http://www.periodicos.capes.gov.br] and re-designed it for her library users.

STOJANOVSKI, Jadranka, Mrs.
Ruder Boskoviae Institute Library
Zagreb
Croatia
jadranka@nippur.irb.hr Jadranka's recent work (2002-2003) includes several national projects:
library network system "Croatian scientific information system (SZI) -Sciences" (http://prirodo.irb.hr), digital library about scientific and professional papers "Croatian scientific bibliography CROSBI"(http://bib.irb.hr), access to the relevant databases for the academic andresearch community of Croatia "Centre for online databases"(http://baze.irb.hr), and the most recent project "Who's who in Science in Croatia?" (http://tkojetko.irb.hr). The project Croatian scientific system which was started in 1995 with 10 libraries from the field of natural sciences includes at the moment over 100 Croatian scientific libraries also
from the field of biomedicine, engineering, social sciences and humanities. She is involved in the continuous education of librarians and users, as a Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians executive board
member and teacher too, and has taught different seminars on database retrieval, Web searching, evaluation of web resources, digital libraries
etc. She is the member of NISKA 2 (Croatian Library Information System) steering committee. She is also the member of the national team of experts for LMS (Library Management System) selection for Croatian scientific
libraries. Jadranka is strongly involved in some new projects dealing with the popularisation of science. Last year she was a conference CO-Chair, "New services in libraries - would
you like it with cream or in PDF?" Scientific Information System Committee, Zagreb, November 2002 with 250 domestic and 25 foreign participants, mostly librarians.
She has being published some conference papers and articles (a comprehensive list of Jadranka's papers can be find on the address
http://knjiznica.irb.hr/jadranka/popisrad.html)

WANG, Xiumei, Mrs.
Ph. D. Student, University of Texas at Austin.
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
xiumeiw@hotmail.com JXiumei is still in Texas, and has decided to join the masters program at the University of Texas. She expects to complete her masters in one year. She is looking for conference or academic opportunities, so please let her know if you have any ideas. Before she goes back to China she would love to visit or work in Washington D.C. or New York.

WIDHARTO, Widarto
Chief Librarian
SEAMEO BIOTROP, Bogor
Indonesia
w_widharto@bogor.wasantara.net.id
Widharto won a travel grant to attend the IFLA Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. He also has been “twinned” by the New Jersey Chapter of SLA. Here is his latest news:
“my proposal for poster presentation to the XIIth World Forestry
Congress, to be held on 21-28 Sept. 2003, in Quebec City, Canada, was accepted. At present I am trying to contact some international agencies requesting for funding support. I hope when I visit Quebec City, I will be able to extend some days to visit you. Moreover, early this week, I got confirmation from IDRC, that my request for funding support to attend the Vth ICADL, on 11-14 Dec. 2002, was accepted. 5 grantees, 2 from the Philippines, one from India, one from Bangladesh, and one me myself, will be invited to visit the IDRC Singapore office, during which the grantees will also attending the said conference. One of the itinerary of the program scheduled for us, will be learning on-line CDS/ISIS, to be given by Mr. Ismail, from Bandung. Probably, if there are any member of SLA both from DC or NJ, who will be attending the conference, please let me know, I
will try to meet them.”

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ADHIKARI, Damodar, Mr, Library, Database, Internet Consultant, Kathmandu, Nepal dadhikari@htp.com.np	After the Global 2000, I conducted a workshop in March 2001 on “Recent trends in Information Management and knowledge sharing.” Judy Field, former President of SLA, joined the workshop as a distinguished guest lecturer. I’m involved in many other activities e. g.: - the development of library legislation - library and information networking - information/knowledge sharing - library automation with available free software - library and information management training activities with Nepal Library Association , Nepal National Library, and with UNESCO (for library automation) - library database management training programme with the latest concept of database sharing through web etc. - selected and elected as -President-elect Asian Chapter, SLA I was awarded a 2000 SLA endowment grant award for my project on “Country-wide database networking plan.”
AWASOM, Innocent On leave of absence from position of Deputy University Librarian and Head of the Research Library University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon, Cameroon Afuh_ntaw@yahoo.co.uk	March 2003: Mr. Awasom has received a Scholars at Risk Network Fellowship from the University of Chicago. He is now in Minneapolis and has been invited to attend a roundtable conference on threatened scholars from April 14 –15, 2003. He was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education, on human rights issues linked to higher education in Cameroon in particular and Africa in general. During Black History month (February 2003), he gave a talk entitled “African Libraries: Past, Present and Future,” as part of the International Librarianship seminar series at the St. Catherine Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and is scheduled to give a similar talk at his host institution, the University of Minnesota.
CHAUDHARY, Muhammad Yaqub, Mr. Chief Librarian, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad (A.K.) Pakistan myaqubch@yahoo.com	Muhammad Yaqub was the recipient of the SciTech Division grant and financial help from other Divisions and Chapters to attend the SLA Annual Conference in June 2002. He gave a paper at the KIIE Breakfast. He was also able to go with his son, librarian at the U.S. State Dept. office in Islamabad, to the ALA conference, where he was asked to write an article for ALA. He then came Washington, where he was interviewed for “Information Outlook,” and the article appeared in the October 2002 issue. He also traveled to the IFLA in Glasgow Scotland, to which he received a travel grant. Muhammad has been “twinned” by the Pacific Northwest Chapter.
ECHIVERRI, Lilia Asst Law Librarian, University of the Philippines, Queson City, Philippines lily@claw.upd.edu.ph	Society of Librarians and Information Specialists (PSLIS) and elected as Board of Trustee of the Philippine Librarians Association, Inc. (PLAI). In 2002, received the following: Service Award for my dedicated service to the University of the Philippines Law Library; Certificate of Appreciation given by PLAI for my contribution to the success of the Forum on General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and as Workshop Facilitator on the National Congress on the Emergent Roles of Librarians and Other Information Professionals in National Development Library. Chaired the following PSLIS activities: Training and Study Visit in Thailand; Seminar-Workshop on Strategic Collection Management and Information Access and Forum on The Modern Trends of Managing Government and Corporate Documents, Files and Publications; and as Participant of PLAI on the Forum on Grants and Grants Seeking: What Librarians and Information Specialists Should Know; Association of Special Libraries of the Philippines (ASLP) on Enhancing the Image of Librarians and Information Specialists; and the Philippine Group of Law Librarians, Inc. (PGLL) on Global Competitiveness of Filipino Librarians. Lastly, received a certificate of Accomplishment on Development of the Internet for ASIAN Law (DIAL) - A Regional Technical Assistance Project of the Asian Development Bank.”
FARAFONOVA, Lyudmila , Associate Director, Altai Regional Scientific Library, Altai, Russia akunb@ab.ru	“During past two years there have been considerable changes in our library: - some projects based on new technologies - Our patrons' access to domestic and world electronic information resources is expanding. - The library is enthusiastically working on document preservation issues and on transferring valuable materials to other formats. - Grants and new partnerships. One of our recent initiatives was to write a paper motivating the opening of an American corner. We've sent the paper to the American embassy in Moscow. It's a great pleasure for me to recall the Global-2000 Conference; everything I saw and heard there will always help me in my work. The conference became the place where I found new friends. Now I correspond actively with Zoya Golban [from the Indiana Chapter, which has “twinned” Lyudmila as an SLA member]. I study the SLA on-line materials as well as everything I receive by mail; it gives me the opportunity to have the latest and best information on what is going on in the library community.”
HERASYM, Ivan, leaving the Ukraine to emigrate to Canada. herasym@ha.lviv.ua	“In January I shall leave the LTA Library, and will emigrate to Canada. During the last few weeks I have been working on the transition of my responsibilities. As you can imagine, the Library is a huge business and I had to take care of all aspects of its current successful functioning and, ultimately, its smooth transition to the new Director. After two years I have spent in the Library I can say our team did a good job. The collection is now twice as large as it was two years ago and the number of registered patrons has increased four times. For the time being we have around 4,000 registered users and 62,000 bibliographic records in our main database. Our OPAC is now available on the Web in both Ukrainian and English @ <http://opac.lta.lviv.ua> and we are the fastest-growing library in the Ukraine. I am confident I leave a well-organized and well-run library.”
JAIN, PK Assistant Librarian Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India pkjain@ieg.ernet.in	The Global 2000 was very informative and beneficial for me. It has improved my professional skill. The other activities and details are listed below: - Elected President, Asian Chapter, Special Library Association, USA, for a period of two years i.e. 2002-2004. We are working on having a Conference in our region. - Awarded three-year membership of American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIST), USA. - Awarded travel grant to attend Annual Meeting/ Conference of American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIST) held in November, 2002 but could not attend due to unavoidable circumstances. The travel grant will be issued again for me to attend the October, 2003 Conference in Long Beach, California. - Presented a paper entitled “JSTOR: The electronic storage of Journals” in National Convention on Library and Information Networking (NACLIN 2002) held at Cochin University of Science And Technology, Cochin, India during October 21-24, 2002.”
JAIS, Jariah, Mrs Institute Librarian and Coordinator, Corporate Information Services,Malaysian Agricultural Research and Dev. Institute Malaysia jjariah@mardi.my	I am still heading the Library at MARDI. Currently I am reorganizing our library to reflect our increasing use of technology and computer applications . In November 2002 the government of Malaysia introduced the new Malaysian Salary Scheme for government employees. We are currently regarding all posts from the previous salary scheme to the new one. There is a lot of work involved and the exercise has to be completed before the end of March 2003. My involvement in this is as Institute Coordinator on behalf of the Librarians and Information professionals, submitting proposals and recommendations through MARDI to the central body. On the professional side I am still a Council Member of the Librarians Association of Malaysia, and still very much involved in its activities, organizing seminars, conferences and training courses. We made a bid to host IFLA in 2008 but we were informed recently that our bid could not be considered as Seoul will be hosting in 2006 (same continent!! but isn't the UK and Norway in Europe?
MARCELINO, Aguinaldo, Mr. Librarian, Fundação Memorial da América Latina São Paulo, Brazil aguinaldo@memorial.org.br	1 - Since February 2001 I've been working at Fundação Memorial da América Latina, I've been classifying, indexing, working in projects (to get resources with other institutions), working at the Reference Section, receiving library students to talk about our library and librarianship experiences, receiving other students to talk about our library and have partnerships with schools. 2 - I also worked at the library of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Paolo until July 2001. Last month I presented a project, with a colleague, to take part in the library system change. It's a project for two years and hope it be approved soon. If so, I'll have two jobs (again). 3 – I became active in the election process, and Last December 6th we had elections for the Librarianship Regional Council of São Paulo. We lost a very close vote, and will keep trying in the future. Meanwhile we’ll work for the proposals we suggested during the elections.. 4 - After Global 2000 and the IFLA 2001 Conference, I was motivated to take part in some librarianship association. In October 2001 I attended to the 2nd São Paulo Public Libraries Forum. 5 - While I was working at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, I took an Italian language course, so now I'm able to communicate in one more language. Since last August I've been studying Spanish, which is very important to me here at Memorial da América Latina. Next January 6th I'll begin an informatics course, where I intend to learn a little more about the basic Microsoft programs (World, Excel, Power Point) 6 - Last March 2002 I attended to the 1st International Archives, Libraries, Documentation Centres and Museums Congress, which took place (lucky for me) here at Memorial da América Latina. 7 – Through the twinning program, The Rio Grande Chapter helped me become an SLA member
MUSWAZI, Paiki, Mr. Coordinator: SLA African Group/Global 2000; Special Collections, University of Swaziland Libraries Swaziland paiki@uniswacc.uniswa.sz	Circulated in January 2001 a proposal seeking the views of African librarians on an SLA African chapter. SLA African fellows analysed incoming responses in an interim report. On July 23, 2001, SLA announced the creation of the Sub-Saharan Africa Provisional Chapter. The announcement marked the creation of SLA's 58th chapter.
NCONGWANE, Mduduzi Godfrey Head: Built Environment Library University of Cape Town, South Africa godfrey@uctlib.uct.ac.za	Since Global 2000 Conference, I initiated and took part in a many activities. In late 2000 and early 2001, Paiki Muswazi, Ozioma Orji, Innocent Awasom and myself sent out questionnaires to information professionals to gauge the interest in Africa. This effort led to submission of a report to SLA. In mid-2001, the Africa Sub-Saharan Chapter was formed under the Presidency of Naylah Abrahams (RSA). As the Executive Member and Newsletter Editor of the provincial branch of Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) in 2001, I initiated a Membership Survey seeking to learn more about members' needs. I reported my findings to both the Committee and also presented it to the membership at Branch meeting. An executive summary was published in the newsletter. In the same year, I served as the Committee's Media Person in preparation for the provincial Library Week. The exercise was both challenging yet successful. The Committee secured one of South Africa's writers of note, Prof. Njabulo Ndebele, who spoke on the theme of African Renaissance. Also in 2001, I successfully applied to attend LIASA 4th Annual Conference held in Johannesburg wherein a paper I had co-written was presented. Finally, a poem I wrote in praise of LIASA was accepted by the local Museum (Cape Town) as part its permanent collection in celebration of Heritage Day held on the 21st of September every year. In 2002, I decided to resign from the Branch Executive Committee, as I needed to focus on my Masters studies. I am currently busy with my thesis in Knowledge Management focusing on knowledge maps in two scientific companies in Cape Town. The thesis is due for submission in mid-September 2003. To crown it all this year, one of my wishes from the Global Fellows 'Wish List' was unexpectedly granted. Former SLA President, Sylvia Piggott, came to South Africa to attend and to speak at our annual conference held in Port Elizabeth. I am pleased to say that this has laid a good foundation and if all goes according to plan, Sylvia will land on our shores again in 2003 for a specific SLA African Chapter meeting. My role is therefore to invite as many potential SLA members as possible to that conference.
ORJI, Ozi Ijeoma, Mrs. Corporate Librarian, Shell Exploration and Production Company Nigeria effective 10/02/03 orjioz@ubaplc.com ojiorji@hotmail.com	Ozi is an officer in the Sub-Saharan Chapter of SLA, and was twinned by the Hudson Valley Chapter. She also won an InfoShare one year membership to ASIST. Her paper, submitted to the ASIST International Paper Competition, was selected by the International Information and Library Review, Elsevier Publishers, and came out in December, 2002. She will leave the United Bank of Africa and will start her new position, which was very competitive, in the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell International on 10/02/03.
RUIZ, Guisella, Costa Rica	Guisella works for a private school library. In early March 2003, she attended a school librarians' meeting to promote private school library assistance to public school libraries, which have very limited resources for their students.
SOUZA FILHO, Maria Das Gracas, Ms. Head, Polymer Bibliographic Centre, Institute of Macromolecules Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil souzaf@gbl.com.br	Submitted a proposal as part of a project of the Institute of Macromolecules to the Brazilian funding agency for science and technology for the expansion of the library services; Prepared for testing the circulation module of the ALEP system used to automate library services and procedure s of the University bibliographic system. Participated in a training programme on the databases included in the Brazilian consortium for electronic access of scientific articles and bibliographic references [http://www.periodicos.capes.gov.br] and re-designed it for her library users.
STOJANOVSKI, Jadranka, Mrs. Ruder Boskoviae Institute Library Zagreb Croatia jadranka@nippur.irb.hr	Jadranka's recent work (2002-2003) includes several national projects: library network system "Croatian scientific information system (SZI) -Sciences" (http://prirodo.irb.hr), digital library about scientific and professional papers "Croatian scientific bibliography CROSBI"(http://bib.irb.hr), access to the relevant databases for the academic andresearch community of Croatia "Centre for online databases"(http://baze.irb.hr), and the most recent project "Who's who in Science in Croatia?" (http://tkojetko.irb.hr). The project Croatian scientific system which was started in 1995 with 10 libraries from the field of natural sciences includes at the moment over 100 Croatian scientific libraries also from the field of biomedicine, engineering, social sciences and humanities. She is involved in the continuous education of librarians and users, as a Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians executive board member and teacher too, and has taught different seminars on database retrieval, Web searching, evaluation of web resources, digital libraries etc. She is the member of NISKA 2 (Croatian Library Information System) steering committee. She is also the member of the national team of experts for LMS (Library Management System) selection for Croatian scientific libraries. Jadranka is strongly involved in some new projects dealing with the popularisation of science. Last year she was a conference CO-Chair, "New services in libraries - would you like it with cream or in PDF?" Scientific Information System Committee, Zagreb, November 2002 with 250 domestic and 25 foreign participants, mostly librarians. She has being published some conference papers and articles (a comprehensive list of Jadranka's papers can be find on the address http://knjiznica.irb.hr/jadranka/popisrad.html)
WANG, Xiumei, Mrs. Ph. D. Student, University of Texas at Austin. Chinese Academy of Sciences China xiumeiw@hotmail.com	JXiumei is still in Texas, and has decided to join the masters program at the University of Texas. She expects to complete her masters in one year. She is looking for conference or academic opportunities, so please let her know if you have any ideas. Before she goes back to China she would love to visit or work in Washington D.C. or New York.
WIDHARTO, Widarto Chief Librarian SEAMEO BIOTROP, Bogor Indonesia w_widharto@bogor.wasantara.net.id	Widharto won a travel grant to attend the IFLA Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. He also has been “twinned” by the New Jersey Chapter of SLA. Here is his latest news: “my proposal for poster presentation to the XIIth World Forestry Congress, to be held on 21-28 Sept. 2003, in Quebec City, Canada, was accepted. At present I am trying to contact some international agencies requesting for funding support. I hope when I visit Quebec City, I will be able to extend some days to visit you. Moreover, early this week, I got confirmation from IDRC, that my request for funding support to attend the Vth ICADL, on 11-14 Dec. 2002, was accepted. 5 grantees, 2 from the Philippines, one from India, one from Bangladesh, and one me myself, will be invited to visit the IDRC Singapore office, during which the grantees will also attending the said conference. One of the itinerary of the program scheduled for us, will be learning on-line CDS/ISIS, to be given by Mr. Ismail, from Bandung. Probably, if there are any member of SLA both from DC or NJ, who will be attending the conference, please let me know, I will try to meet them.”