Prolog (how this came to be)

Many years ago I worked at a small school in the Horn of Africa. It was very obvious that the library was in need of some professional attention. Alax Haley's book Roots was cataloged with the horticulture books. Gorge Orwell's book Animal Farm was cataloged in the animal husbandry section.

I now work in an academic library and still hear the pleas for assistance from libraries in developing countries, hence this/these web page(s). If you find a resource that you feel should be included on this page please let me know. My e-mail address is helms@andrews.edu. I'll try to give credit where credit is due.
All of the software mentioned on this website is open source and runs on "IBM PC" hardware.

Suggestions

1. Join your local / national library organization. These are the people that you will rely on the most. There is strength in numbers. If there is not local /national library organization create an orgization, talk to the librarians at the national / university libraries. Organizations often have a better position when it comes to negotation for equipmet or services. There are situations where libraries in developing countries are able to negociate better pricing than there relatives in the developed countries.
2. Do a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis.
3. Create a strageic plan. What does your library look like in five years. What is needed to reach your goals? A person who fails to plan, plans to fail.


Portals to Open Access Journals


African Journals Online www.ajol.info Provides libraries in developing countries open access.
Directory of Open Access Journals www.doaj.com
World's biggest Open access English Language Journals Portal http://121.244.165.162
BioMed Central the Open Acess Publisher www.biomedcentral.com
Oxford Journals Developing Countries Initatives www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/developing_countries.html
Find Articles findarticles.com indexes both open access journals and preminun journals. The search engine lets the user determin if they want the premium content or not.
INFOMINE

Our daily bread
Anglican theological review
Zeitschrift fur Neuere theologiegeschichte
Andrews University Seminary studies
Awakened Woman
Annual Review of Biochemistry
Christian Computing Magazine
Chronicle of higher education
Criterion
Australian Ejournal of Theology
East Asian Pastoral Review
Burning bush
Currents in Theology and Mission
Sociology Of Religion
Cross currents
Trinity Journal
Human Quest
Spiritual Life
UU World
Annual review of genetics
Annual review of microbiology
Annual Review of Nutrition
Journal of Leadership and Orginizational Studies
Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet
Annual review of plant physiology and plant molecular biology
New York times
Annual review of psychology
Reviews of modern physics
Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
Messenger
African Studies Quarterly
AJS Review: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies
Al-Tawhid. A quarterly journal of Islamic thought and culture
Anglican Journal
Anistorian
Appalachia
Ars disputandi
Eras Journal
Journal of the Adventist Theological Society
Perspective digest
Azure. Ideas for a Jewish Nation
American Journal of Biblical Theology
JSIJ - Jewish studies, an internet journal
Preventing Chronic Disease
Ethic@ - An International Journal ofr Moral Phylosophy
Dynamic Chiropractic
CHRISTIANITY TODAY
College Board Connection
Consumer health journal
Cosmos and history
Credenda
Denver Journal: An Online Review of Current Biblical and Theological Studies
Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum
Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies
Fieldwork in Religion
Export America
Biblical Theology Bulletin
Baptist History and Heritage
Commonweal
Ecumenical review
Encounter
Folklore
Renascence
Religious education
Lutheran
Church and State
First Things. The journal of religion and public life
Electronic Journal of Folklore
The Founders
Harvard Divinity Bulletin
Hinduism Today
Harvard International Review
Innovate: journal of online education
Journal of scholarship of teaching and learning
Lausanne world pulse
Australian Humanities Review
Update / Loma Linda University
Bulletin for Old Testament studies in Africa
american monastic newsletter
Cyberjournal for pentecostal-charismatic research
Global Journal of Clasical Theology
PT journal
Research design connections
Shabbat shalom
Animus: a philosophical journal for our time
Annual of Urdu Studies
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Electronic journal of oriental studies


Books

Book Aid International www.bookaid.org/cms.cgi/site/index.htm


ILS - Integrate Library Systems


Some questions to ask when considering an ILS are:
Is there a stable supply of eletricity?
What system's are other local libraries using?
Does the library have access to local technical support in case the system fails?
Does the ILS save the records in a standard format so the the records can be used when migrating to a new system?
How easy is it to back-up the system?
How difficult is it to rebuild the system after a failure?
What type of computers does the ILS need? Are the computers available locally?
What type of operation system does the ILS use, Windows XP, Vista, Mac OX, Linux
How many concurrent users with the system support?
How many bibliographic records can I put into the system?

There are several Open Source ILS available. All of the integrated library systems (ILS) run on "IBM PC" computers using the Linux opernatin system the exception being NewGenLib which runs on Windows XP.

Evergreen open-ils.org
Koha www.koha.org
NewGenLib www.newgenlib.com
(uses windows operating system)
Emilda www.emilda.org
Openbiblio obiblio.dourceforge.net
Pytheas web2.uwindsor.ca/library/leddy/pytheas/
WEBLIS portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16841&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Cataloging Resources

Z39.50 clients that allow the user to search online catalogs and save the records in MARC format. This is convenient if you can load a file of MARC records into you ILS.
ICON2 icon2_setup_1.4.exeClicking on the link will download Icon2 onto your computer. The program searches only one site at a time but allows multiple records to be saved in a file. It is difficult to add new z39.50 clients to the database.
MarcEdit oregonsate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/downloads.html The program searches only one site at a time but can save multiple records in a file.
Mercury www.basedowinfosys.com/projects/mzc This client can search several site simultaneously, but saves only one marc record per file.

MARC record standards www.loc.gov/marc
Refererence Resouces

LibraryFind is an Oregon State University open source meta-data search tool trac.library.oregonstate.edu/projects/libraryfind/wiki/LibraryFind
dbWiz is an Open Source federated search engine maintained by the Simom Frazier University. dbWiz researcher.sfu.ca/about
Pazpar2 is a federated search engine that provides relevance ranking www.indexdata.com/parpaz2 . The software is maintained by Indexdata which offers support.

This page is a work in progress. It was last update 6.05.2008

B. Helms. M.S., M.L.S.

Acquisitions / Periodical Librarian

Andrews University

helms@andrews.edu