STIMULATE 10: SWOT ANALYSIS Ann Grace B. BansigDe La Salle Santiago Zobel School, Philippines Noel W. CabfilanBenguet State University, Philippines Estela R. DequitoDavao Doctors College, Philippines Kitenda Douglas KellyECUREI, Uganda Yelina Piedra SalomónCommunication Faculty, Cuba Cristina Ledón TedrosFisheries Information Center, Cuba Ellah TwaamboUniversity of Zambia, Zambia 1

Management in Libraries and Information Centers (Statistics, Citation Analysis, Scientific Publishing, etc...) ICT for Libraries and Information Centers. Information Retrieval. Information Architecture and Digital Libraries (Webpage designing, HTML, XML, etc...) Library Visits. 2 Contents of the program: Summary

Organisation of the program: Suggestions to improve it 3 All hand-outs should be published online or in digital format (less paper, less expenses) Lessen number of free lecture days and distribute it to other topics that needed more time

Organisation of the program: Strong points Effective communication line (organized and updated schedule) Efficient program coordination (library visits, expertise of the lecturers, etc...) 4

Program’s academic contents: Not so good components Not much time given to topics like Statistics, Citation Analysis, ABCD, XML, etc. Some topics were not properly scheduled (continuity of the topics) 5

Program’s academic contents: Best components Library visits Topics like ABCD, Greenstone, Citation Analysis, HINARI, HTML 6

Our home institute: Recommendations for the management Application of Open Source Software and Statistics for Effective Library and Information Service Management Implementation of Information Literacy Virtual Learning Environment 7

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