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Scientific and Technological Information
Management in Universities and Libraries:
an Active Training Environment
(Edition 8)
Announcement
Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from:
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/
The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium, for 3 months:
October 1 - December 19, 2008.
Language used is English.
Our motto is
"Helping educators and innovators to advance knowledge and to enrich lives"
Context and evolution of the program:
The initiative has been approved by the Flemish
Interuniversity Council (VLIR) and is sponsored
by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series
of similar international training activities that
have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2,
3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
This initiative is aimed primarily at persons
with a university degree (Bachelor or Master),
who work in universities, information and
documentation centres, and libraries, including
of course university libraries, and who have a
few years of practical experience.
The term Active Training Environment in the title
of the training program reflects our wish to
create an environment in which each participant
is stimulated to get involved actively, supported
by the lecturers and the infrastructure provided
by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".
Aim / goal of the training program:
The main aim and goal of this International
Training Program is to offer a stimulating
learning environment to the participants. These
are young scientists and professionals who have a
function as information intermediary in the area
of science and technology, so as to sharpen their
skills in collecting, storing, retrieving,
presenting and managing information. This can be
of great benefit to the teaching and research
activities going on in their institute and to the
further development of their organisation and region.
This initiative corresponds well with the basic,
general aim of all the International Training
Programs that are supported by VLIR: to train
young scientists and professionals from
developing countries in a domain that is relevant
for the further development of the country, and
to stimulate the participants to transfer their
increased knowledge and skills to their
colleagues and other stakeholders in their home country.
More specific objectives of the training program:
-- to provide participants with a clearer view on
the importance of information in general and for
their environment in particular, and on how to manage information:
summarised: "Management in libraries and information centres"
-- to learn the participants to cope with modern
technology, in view of the increasing importance of ICT;
summarised: "Information and communication
technology for libraries and information centres"
-- to guide them in retrieving information that
is publicly accessible on an international scale:
summarised: "Information retrieval/searching"
and
-- to learn them to store, organise, present,
manage, publish information resources at
personal, institutional, regional or national level:
summarised: "Information architecture"
After being actively involved in this
International Training Program, every participant
will have improved the ability
-- to appreciate and explain the importance of
access to information for their organisation
-- to present information to users and potential
users, using appropriate information technology
-- to train interested persons in the use and
management of information, using appropriate presentation techniques
-- to contribute to the planning of the (further)
development of an information service
-- to communicate through the Internet with users
of information, information providers, colleagues,*
-- to apply quantitative methods in decision
making related to information systems and services
-- to retrieve information from the Internet
-- to store information for later retrieval and
access by potential users, using information technology
Contents of the program:
3 months means about 10 weeks or about 50 days.
During about 3 days per week for 10 weeks = 30
days, the participants will be guided by professors and other experts.
During the other 2 days per week for 10 weeks =
20 days, they will work on tasks=assignments as
individuals or in groups, and their reports will
be presented and discussed afterwards again
guided by professors and other experts.
The sessions are organised in such a way that
--the first month = introduction level,
--the second month = intermediate level, and
--the third month = more advanced level.
Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may
make sense to participate exceptionally during
only one or two of the three months, depending on
expertise. However, the available scholarships
are granted only to persons who will participate for the full three months.
To start with, the participants are offered an
orientation tour of the University and the
University Library. Then some of the following
subjects are covered. Of course, due to the
limited available time, not all the mentioned
subjects can be discussed in each training
program, but a SELECTION will be made by the
organisers. The concrete content of each training
program depends on the availability of suitable
expert lecturers from Belgium and from abroad
during the period of the training program. As
soon as possible, the concrete schedule is made
available through the WWW site of the program.
1. Management in libraries and information centers:
Statistics to support decision making for
information science and for library management.
Business plans for libraries and information centers.
Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers.
Collection development.
Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of
electronic journals and databases.
Scientific writing methods.
ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description.
Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats.
National libraries and national bibliographies.
Knowledge organisation: subject classification
schemes; thesaurus systems, ontologies.
Citation analysis.
Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors.
The bibliometric laws.
Scientometrics.
Architecture of libraries and information centers.
Orientation of information users; relations with information users.
Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery.
Development of a national or regional information network.
The information society.
Cultural aspects of the information society and
information technology transfer.
Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow.
Writing a project proposal (for instance related
to the establishment of an information network).
Conservation/preservation of printed documents.
Conservation/preservation of digital documents.
Informetric aspects of the Internet.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science.
Electronic journals: implementation in a library.
Integration of e-learning environments and library services.
Libraries involvement in scientific publishing.
International co-operation projects.
2. Information and communication technology for
libraries and information centers:
Microcomputer systems: evolution of hardware.
Disks for computers.
CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in a local area network.
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
Microcomputer operating systems.
Microcomputer systems: applications software.
Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing.
Presentation of data, using a microcomputer.
Creating charts to present information.
Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing.
Multimedia / Hypermedia.
Data communication; computer networks; Internet.
Internet services.
Client-server systems.
Electronic mail.
World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia.
Data-communications networks and librarians.
Selecting and procuring a computer system;
writing a proposal for a computer implementation.
Providing access to information through public Internet workstations.
Methods for access to databases through Internet:
telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50 and ISO239.50, Open
Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol.
3. Information retrieval/searching:
Introductory concepts about information.
Internet-based information resources: introduction.
Bibliographic databases.
The information industry and the information market.
Online information retrieval and database
searching; search tactics and strategies.
Internet search engines.
Information available free of charge; open access.
Online access databases about books and about journal articles.
Electronic newsletters and journals.
Computer-network based interest groups.
Patent information.
Online systems versus CD-ROM.
Citation searching.
Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval.
Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems.
Evaluating the quality of information sources.
4. Information architecture and digital libraries:
Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts.
Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Introduction to the ISIS software package family
for information storage and retrieval.
The application of ISIS: searching, editing data
in a database, output of selected data to file or
printer; developing a database structure;
indexing data for fast retrieval; ISIS for
Windows; WINISIS; history and future of ISIS; programming in ISIS.
Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS.
Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW.
Downloading of information and record format conversion.
Relational databases.
Library automation.
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).
Archives and records management.
Archives in the domain of science and technology.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction.
Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet.
Evaluating web sites.
Dynamic web pages.
Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems.
Setting up an electronic newsletter.
Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based).
Study visits:
In addition to the courses taking place at the
university campus, study visits are organised.
A selection from the following possible visits is made:
--to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium
--to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium
--to the Information Service of the Geology
Department of the Royal Museum on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium
--to the inter-university postgraduate school on
information and library science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the human sciences library of the University
of Antwerp in old Antwerp city, Belgium
--to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor
Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen / Antwerp, Belgium
--to the city library of Antwerpen / Antwerp
--to the old central library and to the modern
science and technology library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium
--to the VLIZ marine science information and
documentation centre near the sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium
--to the central library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium
--to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the
Royal Tropical Institute), and to the high school
on libraries, documentation and information, both
in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the headquarters of IFLA and to the
National, Royal Library in Den Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in
Den Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands
More culturally oriented guided visits are also
organised; these may include trips to the old
cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam,
Paris, and to the North Sea coast.
Soon after the start of the program, each
participant presents to the other participants
and to interested lecturers his/her interests,
working environment, planning, tasks, experience.
This is organised with printed posters in a small
poster exhibition with time allotted for
stimulating and ice-breaking discussions.
At the end of the course, each participant
completes a presentation supported by slides
managed on computer, with constructive comments
on the training program experienced and with
concrete recommendations to the organisers of
this training program and to the director of their own organisation.
About half of the time, the participants are
guided by experts who are invited to the
university. They use the other half time to solve
problems, to make exercises, to use
microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare discussions, for self study...
Besides the formal, guided course activities, the
participants have access like any regular student at our university
--to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet,
--to the university library which offers printed
material, CD-ROMs and PCs with Internet access,
--to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices.
At the end of the program all participants obtain
a certificate stating that they have indeed
participated, with a reference to the full
detailed overview of the program contents on the WWW site of the program.
Several substantial parts of the program are
followed by an evaluation by the responsible
expert of the knowledge and skills acquired by
each participant; this can lead to a certificate
of active and successful participation.
Notebook pc for each participant:
Participants should of course bring a notebook or
laptop computer, if they have one available.
This notebook pc should ideally include a
wireless network card (WiFi) to connect to the
Internet through the university wireless network.
If however that is not possible, then the
participant should communicate about this problem
with the secretariat of the training program, as
soon as possible; then the program organisers can
try to rent a personal notebook computer for the
participant at a reasonable price.
Poster session by participants:
Each participant is expected to create a poster
about ongoing activities related to information
management in their home institution. This poster
is presented in a poster session as early as
possible early in the program. In this way,
participants and some professors get to know each
other efficiently and the participants learn to
present information in the format of a scientific
poster. Therefore, participants are encouraged to
bring supporting materials like folders,
leaflets, photos, maps, etc* for inclusion in their poster.
Scientific tutorial presentations by participants:
Each participant is expected to present a
tutorial presentation during the program of
maximum 15 minutes, with 10 minutes of questions
and answers plus discussion foreseen. The
audience is composed of the other participants.
The topic of each presentation is one aspect of
their expertise. The aims are the following:
- participants improve their scientific
presentation, teaching and communication skills,
- they share their knowledge with the other participants,
- participants get to know each other better,
- the session may form a basis for possible later co-operation, etc*
Teachers, professors, experts, resource persons:
The following will be invited. They may
contribute as they did in previous programs, if
their agenda and the limited duration of the training program allow this:
" Collier, KUL, Leuven, Belgium
" Dekeyser, KUL, Leuven, Belgium
" De Keyser, Hogeschool, and Library School, Belgium
" Dell'Orso, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
" De Smet, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, and INASP, UK
" Egghe, Hasselt University and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
" Koninckx, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Holans, KUL, Leuven, Belgium
" Hopkinson, London, England, UK
" Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Nyssen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Quiroga, University of Hawai, USA
" Rousseau, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
" Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
" Vanderpijpen, Royal/National Library, Brussel, Belgium
Social and cultural activities planned:
- Poster presentation by each participant to the
other participants and to invited guests, about
information management in their home institute,
on the same evening as the welcome reception with
drinks and appetizers, early in the program.
- Evening with the opportunity to learn more
about beer tasting and to taste some of the
world-famous Belgian beers and some Belgian food.
- Photography contests.
- Farewell gathering with drinks and snacks. (final evening of the program)
Furthermore the participants can join some of the
many activities at the university and in
Brussels, which are organized by others.
Participation, registration=tuition fee and costs:
Grants=scholarships:
Participation is free of charge (!) for 12
participants from developing countries. They are
selected by the Steering Committee of the
program, by VLIR (the Flemish Inter-university
Council) section for University Co-operation
VLIR-UOS, and by DGOS. They also receive a return
flight ticket plus a scholarship to cover the
costs of transport from the airport upon arrival
to their room, accommodation, health insurance
during the stay in Belgium, transport in Belgium,
and finally transport from their room to the
airport. The detailed forms that are needed to
request a grant=scholarship should be available
through the Internet from the WWW site of
VLIR-UOS. Their site is http://www.vliruos.be/
At the time of writing this text, the required
forms, one for the request and one for the
recommendation letters could be downloaded
primarily from
http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?navid=380&direct_to=Scholarships_Programme
and from
http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?navid=322&direct_to=Downloads
Grant applications must be received by VLIR
before the end of January! (and NOT before the
end of February as in previous years up to 2005)
Official and formal requests for a
grant-scholarship or any other correspondence
about the grants should be sent to VLIR-UOS in
Brussels, and NOT to the organizers/co-ordinators
of this specific program. Contact: mario.demeyer at vliruos.be
The ideal participant applying for a grant is
younger than 40 years, and will be able to apply
what has been learned directly in a professional
scientific or technical environment afterwards.
Normal registration:
Besides the persons who receive a grant from the
Belgian Government through VLIR, 8 persons can
participate after paying a registration=tuition
fee that is small in comparison with similar programs.
The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel,
transport in Belgium, meals and accommodation,
but do include transport from the airport upon
arrival, welcome reception, health insurance,
printed study materials, study visits, social activities.
-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro
-Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate
for the whole period can nevertheless participate
during 2 months only (1800 Euro) or during 1
month only (1000 Euro). It makes sense to attend
for instance the first month or the first two
months only. It makes less sense to participate
only during the second or the third month, as
introductions to some activities or topics may be missed.
-To participate to particular items selected from
the program: 30 Euro per half day.
To register and pay the registration=tuition fee,
send the form (see below) by classical mail or by
private courier, together with an international
bank transfer / bank cheque / bank draft, payable to
University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium,
with no need for any bank account numbers.
If however this simple procedure is NOT suitable
for you, then you can transfer the required sum
of money to the following bank account of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium,
account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966
and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark:
for internal account VOPA21 BIBLINK3 University
Library STIMULATE International Training Program
The money received by the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel financial department must be transferred
internally; this transfer takes about 1 week,
which means a delay in the registration procedure, which is better avoided.
(Without your remark, the money may be not retraceable and lost.)
Realize that some bank transfer costs are
involved and that these should be paid besides
the requested participation fee that is transferred.
There is no formal deadline. However, we
recommend you to register as early as possible,
because "first come, first served": the arrival
of your participation fee determines who can
participate. Furthermore the later a participant
is registered, the more difficult it becomes to
find cheap and suitable accommodation.
There is NO need to "apply" prior to the
registration, to request permission to
participate or to be accepted, from the
organizers of the program or from their
universities. Also there is no age limit. The
decision if the program is suitable and
appropriate for an interested person is to be
made by that person and not by the organizers.
This is similar as participation to a conference.
Invitation letters can be sent on request if
needed, but in principle only when the
participation = registration fee has been
received. This announcement is in fact an invitation.
It is a waste of time to ask the organisers of
the program about sponsors besides VLIR mentioned above.
Medical insurance:
Participants are covered during their stay by a full medical insurance.
This costs about 40 Euro per month.
This is formalised as soon as possible after
arrival in Belgium, with the secretariat of the program.
Accommodation:
The organisers of this program normally book in
advance a single, cheap, basic room with access
to a shared kitchen, as accommodation for each
participant, unless a participant writes us that
he/she wants to take care of accommodation
personally, for instance by staying with a friend
or by renting a room that offers more luxury.
Participants pay for their accommodation directly
to the person or organisation providing
accommodation in Brussels, as soon as they arrive
in Belgium. If we can book many weeks in advance,
then we can normally find basic accommodation for
about 300 Euro per month, meals not included;
however, a late receipt of the
registration=tuition fee forces us probably to book a more expensive room.
The cost of living in Belgium:
According to previous participants and in
agreement with the grants provided by VLIR-UOS,
1100 Euro per month should be enough to cover all
expenses, including accommodation, transport, food*
How to contact the organizers?
E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be (or in
case that this does not seem to work, to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be)
(change at in @ when you want to use an address)
Fax 32 2 629 2693 (or 2282)
Tel. 32 2 629 2629 or 32 2 629 2429 or 32 2 629 2609
Telex 61051 vubco-b
Classical mail:
STIMULATE-ITP (or Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN), University
Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM
Location:
The training is mainly organized at the
University Library of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The campus is located south of the older centre
of the city of Brussels, and can easily be
reached by Metro (subway), tram and bus.
Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be
found through the WWW; see for instance:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels
http://www.agenda.be/ about events going on in
Brussels (in French and in Dutch)
http://www.disgruntled.ca/writings/brussels/
offers information on Brussels and some photos,
based on the experience of living there for some time
http://www.eric-maerschalck.be/Brussels/bruxelles.php?log=NO
offers photos made in Brussels
http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/brussels.shtml
http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm
offers an interactive map and photos of Brussels
http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/
http://www.jack-travel.com/
http://www.sievers.nl/visitbrussels/ shows some photos made in Brussels
http://www.timeout.com/brussels/
http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm
http://www.use-it.be/
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html
http://www.visitbelgium.com/
Interesting trips are possible to places in
neighbouring countries like The Netherlands and
France. Therefore, participants should try to
obtain also a visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa).
Program and Steering Committee:
The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen,
professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and
guest professor at Universiteit Antwerpen,
Science and technology librarian of the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel. http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/professional/
An official, formal Steering Committee is
composed of members from the co-operating universities in Flanders:
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
- Universiteit Antwerpen
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
This Steering Committee supervises the
organisation, the program and the budget. This
committee reports formally to VLIR.
This version is dated 2007-11-06
____________________REGISTRATION FORM_______________________
to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium
I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a
letter AND I pay the registration=tuition fee as
described in the announcement of the
International Training Program on INFORMATION.
(So the following is NOT the form to apply for a grant.
Use this form only when you pay the registration=tuition fee.)
a. Family name (surname): ...............................
(married female participants please fill in
maiden-name as well as name of husband)
b. First or given names (according to your official passport): ..............
Personal address: ...................................
.....................................................
Country:.............................................
Electronic mail address
Telephone, fax, telex:
Date of birth: Place of birth:
Nationality: Sex: male / female
Present employment:
a. Name and address of employer: .................
...............................................
...............................................
b. Since: ../../..
c. Position - function - specialization
d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer:
Education - studies:
Name of institute Degree Date
Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: .......
Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify:
Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country:
.................................................................
.................................................................
Please book a room for me OR
Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation
Date and signature:****************.
Please include a recent photograph, as this will
simplify identifying you upon arrival.
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