Building Strong Library Associations | Sustaining Your Library Association BSLA Stakeholders Workshop Yaounde, Cameroon, 27 – 28 April, 2012 Library Consortium as a Partner

Building Strong Library Associations | Sustaining Your Library Association To share professional experiences To share cost of access to resources To share cost of skills development To enhance advocacy AIMS OF A CONSORTIUM

Building Strong Library Associations | Sustaining Your Library Association EIFL is a consortium of consortia in developing countries They support a lot of projects in developing countries Consortium building Digitization skills )Open Access) Advocacy in Copyright issues Free library software (Open source Negotiation of access licenses to electronic resources Support from EIFL

Building Strong Library Associations | Sustaining Your Library Association EIFL has 4 major programs 1. Open Access (OA) 2. Free Open Source Software (FOSS) 3. Intellectual Property 4. Licensing Management Structure

Building Strong Library Associations | Sustaining Your Library Association The management consists of 1. Country coordinator 2. A coordinator for each programme 3. In total each country has 5 coordinators for EIFL programme These five coordinators should work as a team Management Structure

Building Strong Library Associations | Sustaining Your Library Association Each of the 4 programmes has an overall coordinator at EIFL Each programme coordinator is expected to have a direct link to the EIFL coordinator for the programme Management Structure

Building Strong Library Associations | Sustaining Your Library Association Consortium is a strong partner of Library Association in Kenya  Access to resources  Collective advocacy  Marketing  Capacity building  Setting standards We do a lot of things together Consortium as a Partner