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    Building an academic library collection in a developing country
    (2018) Pfohl, Irmela
    The University of Namibia was established in 1992 and started as a one-campus institution with fewer than 2,500 students to a university with twelve (12) campuses and nine (9) centers and more than 25,000 students. This study examines the profiles of the UNAM Library collections and the historical dynamics that have impacted it. New programs, schools, and campuses were introduced at a rapid pace and the library could only attempt to keep track with all new developments surrounding it. The role of collection assessment, collection development policy, and e-books were investigated within this scenario.
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    Developing information literacy education for first-year students at two universities
    (Tampere University Press, 2012) Asplund, Janika; Mwiiyale, Jakobina M.; Karsten, Siegfriede; Tapio, Saija
    Information literacy (IL) is considered to be an important part of the skills acquired by university students during their studies, and university libraries have developed their instruction to help students achieve this. Tampere University (UTA) Library follows the national IL recommendation (See Recommendation for Universities) in its teaching. In the recent curricula change of the University the Teaching council stipulated IL as a compulsory subject for all students of UTA. All UTA students now have equal opportunities for IL education during different phases of their studies. This has entailed modifying an existing IL course into one more suitable for teaching larger numbers of students. Information specialists of the Library have also participated in university pedagogy training, which has served to strengthen the theoretical basis of their own work and also occasioned substantial changes in the course. The University of Namibia (UNAM) Library is in the process of developing and harmonizing their IL education. Since Finland is regarded as one of the leading countries in IL matters (UNESCO 2005, cited in Walton & Hepworth 2011), we wanted to share our experiences of developing IL education and thus contribute to the knowledge base of academic libraries, and more specifically to see if there was something useful to be learned from the experiences of UTA Library’s development of an IL course for first-year students. In this chapter we introduce the IL course for first-year students at UTA and the teamwork model we used to develop it. As a theoretical framework, we found it especially useful to apply the principles of constructive alignment in our pedagogical developments in IL education. We also discuss whether some of the content and teaching methods of this course could be applied to the present Namibian academic context.
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    Obstacles to scholarly publishing by academic librarians
    (Tampere University Press, 2012) Lehto, Anne; Matangira, Violet; Shatona, Menete; Kahengua, Kavevangua
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    Usability of the Tampere University Library collection mapping method at University of Namibia Libraries
    (Tampere University Press, 2012) Hyödynmaa, Merja; Buchholz, Irmela M.