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Make a Wish Come True
Library Wishes from Developing Countries

What is the Wish List?
It's a way for SLA Organizations and other library friends to learn about and fulfill modest requests from special, public, and academic libraries in developing countries. Most wishes involve little, if any, cost. Wishes were gathered from a survey of 18 librarians in 15 countries, all winners of a Global 2000/2001 Fellowship or ASIS&T paper competition.

How to make a wish come true.
1. Contact the requestor by e-mail to offer your help. 2. Let us know if you have granted a wish so that we might recognize the people involved and encourage more wish making and granting. Please send a copy of pertinent correspondence to Maria Diaz at kiiewish@hotmail.com.

Cost	Wish Granted!	Wish	Request	Requestor	Library	Country	Library Type	Subject Focus
Cost of division membership for a member of SLA	Granted by Dianna Magnoni Olin College of Engineering Feb 2003	“I would like to join the Science and Technology Division”	Division Membership	Ms Jadranka Stojanovski jadranka@nippur.irb.hr		Croatia	Special	Science
Cost unknown. Personal travel expense; may make arrangements to stay with host.	Granted by Sylvia Piggott. Oct 2000	“I would like a prominent SLA member to come here and expose our library community here to SLA as an international association.”	Seminar	Mr Godfrey Mduduzi Ncongwane mncongwa@curie.uct.ac.za		Capetown, South Africa	Academic	Engineering and architecture
No cost		"I wish for Total Quality Management (TQM) training materials."	Training Materials	Mr Awasom Innocent, afuh_ntaw@yahoo.co.uk	University of Ngaoundere, Adamawa	Cameroon	Academic
No cost		“Any training materials in the field of Digital Libraries to enable me to run my newly established ‘Kashmir Information Resource Center.’”	Training Materials	Mr Muhammad Chaudhary myaqubch@yahoo.com	Institute of Kashmir Studies, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir	Pakistan	Special / Academic	Science research library
No cost		“Any training materials on “Continuing Professional Education” for conducting workshops, seminars, etc. “	Training Materials	Mr Muhammad Chaudhary myaqubch@yahoo.com	Institute of Kashmir Studies, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir	Pakistan	Special / Academic	Science research library
No cost		“I need to correspond with some people and get some help throughout the automation process I am currently undertaking in my library”	Mentoring	Mr Aubin Odah aubinodah@hotmail.com		Senegal (French and English)	Special	Banking
No cost		“I would like help on ideas on conservation. Conservation is one of our most burning problems, and is part of my research as well as my practical work.”	Mentoring	Ms Lyudmila Farafonova akunb@ab.ru	Altai Krai Universal Scientific Library, Siberia	Russia	Special	Scientific research library
No cost		“I would like information on marketing and advocacy of library associations and the entire library sector.”	Mentoring	Mr Godfrey Mduduzi Ncongwane mncongwa@curie.uct.ac.za		Capetown, South Africa	Academic	Engineering and architecture
No cost		“I would like to be on the listservs and get the newsletters or journals of any of the following SLA Divisions: DIE, DSOL, DAM, and DERM."	Listserv / Publications Exchange	Mr Awasom Innocent afuh_ntaw@yahoo.co.uk	University of Ngaoundere, Adamawa	Cameroon	Academic
No cost		“I would like to communicate with specialists in government information sources.”	Mentoring	Dr P.R. Goswami goswami@yojana.nic.in, prgoswami@hotmail.com	Planning Commission Library, Government of India	India	Special	Government
No cost		“I would like to cooperate on research and article writing—possible topics are 1. library web sites evaluation 2. user (case) studies 3. library role in user education .4. virtual reference library 5. Science on the Internet (portal)—possible solution 6. indexes—could they be used in the scientific output evaluation?”	Mentoring	Ms Jadranka Stojanovski jadranka@nippur.irb.hr		Croatia	Special	Science
No cost		“I would like to exchange my Institute’s publications with any library, agricultural or otherwise for mutual benefit.”	Publications Exchange	Ms Jaria Jais jjariah@mardi.my		Malaysia	Special	Quasi-government agricultural research institute
No cost		“I would like to receive training materials on web resources evaluation, information retrieval and digital libraries.”	Training Materials	Ms Jadranka Stojanovski jadranka@nippur.irb.hr		Croatia	Special	Science
No cost		“I would like training materials on developing an electronic library”	Training Materials	Mr Cao Minh Kiem kiemcm@vista.gov.vn		Vietnam	Public	Research library
No cost		“I would like Training materials on information retrieval and how to develop an electronic library.”		Mr Cao Minh Kiem kiemcm@vista.gov.vn		Vietnam	Public	Research library
No cost		“I would like training materials on library automation”	Training Materials	Mr Damodar Adhikari dadhikari@htp.com.np	UNICEF Library	Nepal	Special	International
No cost		“I would love to have E-mail communication with specialists on banking librarianship”	Mentoring	Mrs Ozy Orji orjioz@ubaplc.com	United Bank of Africa	Nigeria	Special	Banking
No cost (unless you traveled to Brazil to give the lectures)		“I would like help on ideas and strategies on competitive intelligence. It is one of the subjects of greatest importance to the development of the Brazilian petrochemical and polymer industry. We would love to have some special lectures on the subject as well.”	Mentoring / Seminar	Ms Maria das Gracas Freitas Souza Filho souzaf@gbl.com.br		Brazil	Academic	Science
Cost $44.20		“Twenty hour Indexing and Vocabulary Control Course. This course brings information professionals up to date to qualify to index documents. It includes revision and redefinition of processes, and uses the new informatics paradigms and standards.”	Training	Mr Aguialdo Marcelino aguinaldo@memorial.org.br		Brazil	Public	Latin America
Cost $97.26 (Covers cost of class, books and audiovisual materials).		"I would like sponsorship for training in library preservation and conservation, Course 1: How to make preventitive conservation in libraries and archives, 32 hour course in Brazil."	Training	Mr Aguialdo Marcelino aguinaldo@memorial.org.br		Brazil	Public	Latin America
Cost $106.09		Sponsorship for training in Microisis for librarian and system analyst: Basice course. Develop bibliographic databases using Winisis basic resources. Software history, graphical environment, search resources, data inclusion, developing and printing searches, importing and exporting data. Total hours course; 20.	Training	Mr Aguialdo Marcelino aguinaldo@memorial.org.br		Brazil	Public	Latin America
Cost $123.77		Sponsorship for advanced course to develop bibliographic databases using Winsis advanced resources. Relations among databases, hypertext, program language, introduction to ISIS/MARC, creating reports, system parameters, users access, installing in network. Windows “pop-up in data inclusion (pic-list): examples to create authority and key words control catalogues. Selecting non-accepted words, new system parameters, new data inclusion controls (Bireme’s CISIS language. Total hours of course: 22.	Training	Mr Aguialdo Marcellino aguinaldo@memorial.org.br		Brazil	Public	Latin America
Cost unknown, if any.		“I would like to spend at least one month working in an information unit in the US which has responsibility for both library and records to get a first-hand view of the programmes.”	Training	Ms Doreen Lambert dorlam_2005@yahoo.com	Central Bank of Jamaica	Jamaica	Special	Banking
Cost unknown. Will need to follow up on details about a specific course and its cost.		“I would like to be sponsored for training in web page design and management”	Training	Ms Doreen Lambert dorlam_2005@yahoo.com	Central Bank of Jamaica	Jamaica	Special	Banking
Cost unknown. Will need to follow up on details.		“I would like funding to conduct a comprehensive study of the library sector in South Africa to be submitted to SLA for consideration. Such report will obviously be guided by the frames of reference set by SLA. This will, I think, provide with a picture that SLA needs to have before the embark on an initiatives. South Africa, for example, has no less than five associations or interest groups tha need coordination. It is a big concern for me.”	Funding for Research	Mr Godfrey Mduduzi Ncongwane mncongwa@curie.uct.ac.za		Capetown, South Africa	Academic	Engineering and architecture

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Make a Wish Come True Library Wishes from Developing Countries

Make a Wish Come True
Library Wishes from Developing Countries