Unsung Heroes: Stories from the library
Published: Monday 5th May 2014 Category: News
New Publication from Research4Life Partners
Research4Life’s global testimonies from librarians in developing countries highlight the important role they have in building institutional capacities and aiding in vital research
- Empowering a Kenyan librarian to embed Research4Life usage across ten campuses, ramping up research and demonstrating that the library is research’s digital backbone
- Driving a Kenyan librarian to become an expert on information technology and electronic data resources at her university, collaborating with doctors and nurses to find the research they need to effectively treat their patients
- Enabling a Ugandan agricultural librarian to drastically reduce the use of print resources, minimizing congestion in the libraries while boosting usage and output
- Equipping new research centre in the Maldives to educate the young democracy’s future scientists and policymakers
- Inspiring a health librarian to write her PhD on solving low Research4Life uptake and developing a powerful training infrastructure at Ugandan universities
- Challenging another Kenyan librarian to specialise in electronic data resources and train new students in Research4Life within a month of starting classes
- Enabling a tech-savvy Honduran medical librarian to create a one-stop virtual medical library, resolving security issues which had previously prevented access
- Inciting one of the early adopters in Nigeria to turn around medical and nursing curricula to include information literacy and Research4Life training
- Supporting another Ugandan librarian to use Research4Life at Makerere University, which has seen a substantial rise in research productivity