The Sixth Scientific Conference On TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FOR DEVELOPMENT, Khartoum, 8-10 April 2003: Establishing Basic Levels of Technology Transfer for :Sudan Documentation and Library Services:Challenges and Opportunities /By: Rafaa Ashamallah Ghobrial
 
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 | The Sixth Scientific Conference On TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FOR DEVELOPMENT, Khartoum, 8-10 April 2003: Establishing Basic Levels of Technology Transfer for :Sudan Documentation and Library Services:Challenges and Opportunities /By: Rafaa Ashamallah Ghobrial |
 |  | ABSTRACT: |
| | 2. IT, ICTS AND TT CONCEPTS |
| | 3. SUDANESE LIBRARIIES AND INFORMATION INSTITUTIONS: |
|  | 4. SUDANESE LIBRARIES CHALLENGES AND APPORTUNITIES |
| | 4-1 Power Sources |
| | 4-2. Information Technology: |
| | 4-3. Automated information services: |
| | 4-4. Sustenance of electronic Publishing: |
| | 4-5. Information networks and Internet Connectivity Projected Sudan to the World: |
| | 5.PROSPECTS FOR MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION IN SUDAN |
| | 5-1. Improved Economy of Sudan |
| | 5-2. Improved Information and Communication Infrastructure |
| | 5-2-1 Telecommunications |
| | 5-2-1-1 Mobile cellular networks: |
| | 5-2-2 Informatics: |
| | 5-3. Progress in IT Application in Sudan: |
| | 6.MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT: |
| | 7. CONCLUSION: |
| | 8. REFERENCES: |
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6.MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT:
6.
MANPOWER
DEVELOPMENT:
Shortage of manpower for the
implementation of IT programmes of libraries in Sudan has been a big problem.
Many attempts at library automation in Sudan are known to have failed because
of the high turnover of systems analysts who abandon the computerization
programmes mid-stream in search of greener pastures. One of the findings of
Ghobrial (2002) is that out of the 18 libraries found to have computerized
their services, only one (0.7%) had qualified library systems analysts in
their establishment. The rest made use of external consultants for the
computerization projects.
Conscious of the manpower
problem, libraries all over Sudan have been exposing their staff to computer
literacy programmes. Some have also been sending selected staff to specialized
training on computer information management locally and outside Sudan.
Another good development is that library
schools in Sudan are bracing up to the challenge by revising their curricula
to strongly accommodate practical education and training in IT. The Department
of Library, in Archival and Information Studies, University of Neelan, for
example, has recently acquired fifty computers for teaching and practice
purposes by the lecturers and students. Effort is also being made to acquire
more to meet the high student population. The curricula at both the
undergraduate and post-graduate levels are also being overhauled to be
strongly IT biased. Accordingly, in 2002 Neelan University director resolved
that the library school should strongly teach IT to their students and provide
facilities for computer practicals. Once this type of resolution is widely
implemented by library schools in Sudan, the problem of manpower shortage for
library automation programmes will be greatly reduced.
