2021/2022 ACHIEVEMENTS

USG-1: Strengthening Excellence in Education and Student Life

LSG-1: Promote Access to, and Discovery of, Library Content and Collections

• Developed and continued to support and sustain digital infrastructure/ systems – 9 systems
  • Online Library System and Catalogue (Koha)
  • Institutional Repository (Dspace)
  • Library Subject Guides
  • Interactive Library Portal/ Website
  • IM Collaborate – Chat Reference – Ask A Librarian
  • Libhub
  • MyLOFT - Proxy Server
  • Staff Profiles
  • Directorate of Graduate Studies
  • Graduation
  • Graduation
• Off campus access to online resources supported – MyLOFT

LSG-1: Promote Access to, and Discovery of, Library Content and Collections

• Awareness was created and news articles posted on the library website
• A total of 539 students and 31 staff trained on using the online library resources – skilling users on using e-resources
• 25 Library staff trained on how to manage and use library resources
• Information Literacy Policy & IL Workplan developed and ready for presenting at the AA&LC
• 20 Information literacy courses developed on the LMS/ Moodle – Lecturer – Librarian collaborative teaching of courses
• 79 in-ward and out-ward document delivery requests served – from Uganda (Makerere, Ndejje, and UCU), Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, China, USA, Canada, UK, and etc

LSG-3: Expand Library Collections

• Subscription to online resources continues – over 30 million e-book titles; and over 25 million online journal titles – all in 156 online databases
• 196 titles of print books procured – Maritime Institute, Pallisa, Arapai, and Mbale
• Newspapers procured as follows:
  • 359 New vision, Saturday & Sunday Vision procured
  • 364 Daily, Saturday & Sunday Monitor procured
  • 178 Red Pepper, Saturday & Sunday Pepper procured
  • 51 East African Newspapers procured
• 201 Volumes of Newspapers are being bound

USG-2: Increasing High Impact Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

LSG-5: Promote Innovation

• Continued development of a digital infrastructure to support the library functions as presented in USG-1, under LSG-1
• Winning grants to support library programmes and services
  • Engineering Information Foundation – Disciplinary-based Information Literacy
  • Work Readiness Program (WRP) – Private Sector Foundation of Uganda (PSFU)

USG-3: Strengthening Partnerships and Engagement for Growth

LSG-4: Sustain Partnerships and Collaborations

• Membership renewed for all the professional organizations – fees paid - CUUL, IFLA, IASSIST-Africa Chapter, ULIA, ALA, ACRL

USG-4 Increasing productivity through Effective Leadership, Governance and Management

LSG-6: Build a Robust Assessment Programme

• Framework for Strategic Action, January 2021 - June 2024 developed and available on the library website https://library.busitema.ac.ug/about/strategic-plan - to be published in a book
• Library Structure was developed – new structure approved by Ministry of Public Service – yet to be operationalized
• Performance and evaluation tools: Performance agreements, workplans, worksheets, attendance registry implemented – administrative supervisory tools implemented
• Ugx 31,680,000 funding secured to boost salaries of the Graduate Fellows – 14 Graduates Fellows and there pay improved to a gross of Ugx 1,000,000 from Ugx 400,000
• Capacity development for Librarians: 4 online short courses attended by librarians on cataloguing, reference services, acquisitions, and collection management, and the Open Science Symposium

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