IT in Management of University Libraries

01.09.2003 - 28.02.2007
Global individual project
The project duration was September 1, 2003 - February 28, 2007. The project consortium included 1 partner university from Ukraine and 3 partner universities from the European Union. The project was approved and funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Tempus programms. The project grantholder was Vienna University of Technology, Austria, the project co-ordinator was National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Ukraine. The project costs were 325959 Euro. Project objectives: - Development of a centre for the education and continuing education of the IT-Managers of NTUU "KPI"; - Training of pilot groups of Ukrainian teachers for libraries; Main project outcomes: - Two groups experts from the NTUU "KPI" were trained at EU partners universities in the areas of library management, use of IT and other modern technologies in libraries, organisation of continuing education, e-learning; - Modern equipment necessary for the preparation and organisation of the training courses for librarians as well as for library needs has been purchased and installed; - The Library Management Training Centre (LMTC) was established at NTUU "KPI" in March 2006. The LMTC has a statute of a university unit and its main tasks is to develop and organise training courses for librarians from Ukrainian libraries. - 8 traditional and 6 distance learning courses have been developed, the respective teaching materials have been developed and published; - Two pilot training programmes, one workshop and one conference for the staff of Ukrainian libraries have been organised at NTUU "KPI"; - Promotional and information materials for the LMTC and training courses developed within the project have been prepared and printed, the web site for the LMTC has been developed and released.

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Keywords

GermanEnglish
WeiterbildungContinuing education
InformationstechnologieInformation technologies
UniversitätsbibliothekenUniversity libraries

External partner

  • Büro des Rektorats
  • RWTH Aachen
  • National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
  • Universitätsbibliothek
  • Delft University of Technology

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