ILS News

From May 4 until the end of July, the colourful paintings of artist Frank Creton are on display in the KIT Library.

The colonial heritage site is now linked to KIT’s online library catalogue, allowing users to search for, and access, digitized historical documents via the library catalogue.

More than 120 e-books are available in the KIT library catalogue, which can be borrowed by KIT Library members.

The department Information & Library Services of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT ILS) is involved in the organization of a training-of-trainer s (TOT) workshop on the use of an open-source library system. The aim is to strengthen the capacity of university libraries in Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the provision of modern service delivery.

The Information & Library Services department of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) has made the library available as a public exhibition space for artists.

At the end of April, the KIT Library has launched a unique website on cultural heritage, containing 1 million pages.

Expert meeting: Open Data for Development Camp Thursday 12 and Friday 13 May, 2011 Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The publication contains the outcome of the Cross-cultural learning conference, held in Johannesburg in 2010, and is compiled by the KIT department Information & Library Services (ILS).

Since KIT Information and Library Services (ILS) supplies information services to the ICCO alliance. A special portal was launched in March for ICCO staff members at the headquarters in Utrecht and eight regional offices abroad.

The Royal Tropical Institute is pleased to announce the relaunch of its portal on mHealth in Low-Resource Settings, www.mhealthinfo.org. The portal offers timely and informative content on the issue. The website serves as a platform for sharing knowledge on the current use, potential and limitations of mHealth in low-resource settings and allows greater interaction with its users.

The World Health Champion Game has been developed by KIT Development Policy and Practice in collaboration with KIT Information & Library Services, with the support of the Ministry of Development Cooperation. The primary target group being participants of Master’s programmes in Public & International Health. The dossier introduces the Game and presents the PDFs of the board, the instructions and rules, and the questions and answers of the game.

On Wednesday 1 December it is World AIDS Day. In the KIT Library we have made a thematic bookcase of our book collection on HIV/AIDS. We have also put together a special literature list, which contains recent articles and books from the collection.

KIT Information & Library Services (ILS) has launched a new portal concerning library development aiming to contribute to information management and knowledge sharing in low-resource settings. The portal Librarianship in the South was established in association with the project partners of KIT ILS. Information resources (including e-publications, websites, databases, videos and photographs) are entirely and freely accessible. The portal has been online for a few months now and can be followed on Facebook and Twitter.